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Karen Hofmann on building an accessible, affordable and inclusive education
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - June 01, 2022 09:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTo many of our listeners, this guest needs no introduction. She is someone who has burst through seemingly impenetrable ceilings – glass and otherwise – to claim leadership roles historically held by men. She rose through the ranks as a strategic industrial designer before returning to ArtCenter,...
Jackie Amezquita on migration, memory and making art
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - May 18, 2022 09:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhen we first heard from Jackie Amezquita four years ago, she was an ArtCenter Fine Art student on the cusp of graduating. In a raw and revealing interview, she traced the arduous path she’d walked to find the stability she needed to risk everything for her art. Her remarkable journey (captured...
Aimee Mullins on Finding a World of Possibilities in Every Problem
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - May 04, 2022 16:37 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAimee Mullins is a true polymath. Her passions and professional pursuits are as varied and boundless as the awards and groundbreaking strides she’s achieved within her many chosen fields. She broke new ground in athletics as the first amputee in history to compete against able-bodied athletes in ...
Artist Lita Albuquerque on Regeneration After the Fire
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - April 20, 2022 09:39 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWe’re lucky as artists that we can recover much faster because we can express. Nature recovers and we recover. Lita Albuquerque is an artist whose body of work has often defied the strictures of convention and, ultimately, canvas. Over the course of her celebrated career, her paintings and sculp...
Artist Kim Schoenstadt on finding redemption through creativity and kinship
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - April 06, 2022 09:35 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsClient hypothetical. This is the term pioneering architect and designer Eileen Gray used to classify the many Modernist masterpieces she designed in the absence of actual paid commissions. She was simply making things because that was what she was made to do. Gray now stands alongside other towe...
James Meraz on creating a path through unimaginable loss
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - March 23, 2022 09:35 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJames Meraz joined the faculty of ArtCenter’s Environmental Design department in September of 2001, shortly before 9/11. In the wake of that tragedy he wavered about how to proceed with his planned curriculum. How would it all be relevant? In the end, he resolved to lean into the uncertainty of t...
Change Lab Season 10: Forged in Fire, Make to Heal
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - March 10, 2022 14:15 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe next season of Change Lab debuts on March 23. We’re calling it Forged in Fire: Make to Heal and we’re looking at the ways in which adversity can be a conduit for creativity and, more importantly, how creativity can offer solace during the hardest of times. You’re not going to want to miss a ...
53 Google's Ivy Ross on Reimagining the Life You're Meant to Live
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - December 08, 2021 10:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAs Google’s vice president of hardware design, Ivy Ross is breaking new ground in the physical world for a trillion-dollar company synonymous with building tools for navigating the virtual one. Since assuming the role in 2014, she’s been tasked with translating a corporate identity consisting of ...
52 Tisha Johnson on design as a growth mindset
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - December 01, 2021 16:58 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn the two decades since she graduated from ArtCenter with a degree in Transportation Design, Tisha Johnson has blazed trails for female design leaders in industries dominated by men. Her success has been propelled by her genuine passion for each phase of the design process, from research to expe...
51 Aimee Bender on writing into uncertainty
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - November 10, 2021 10:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsFor novelist Aimee Bender, magic is not a limited resource. Nor is it something to be feared, coveted, mistrusted or monetized. In her view, rather, magic is an everyday occurrence woven into the fabric of our lives captured in fleeting moments of transcendence all too often overlooked. No wonde...
50 Ann Hamilton on the Power of I-Don’t-Know
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - October 27, 2021 09:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTo experience one of Ann Hamilton’s installations is to be transported into a world of invention unlike any other. Recognized for her large-scale public projects and performance collaborations, Ann uses space as her canvas and fills it with a sense of mystery and drama that is as inviting as it i...
49 Mike Shinoda on the Alchemy of Making Music and Art
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - October 13, 2021 09:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTo call Mike Shinoda a rock star would be technically accurate and yet incomplete. He is the lead singer and driving force behind Linkin Park (one of the best selling bands of the 21st century), Fort Minor (his hip hop project) and a thriving career as a solo artist. But that list of headlining a...
48 Artist Diana Thater is determined to reveal a world worth saving
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - September 29, 2021 14:29 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsFor Diana Thater making art is like oxygen. It sustains and nourishes her. And when her access to it is suddenly limited -- as it was in the spring of 2020-- she figures out a way to create her art. By any means necessary. Her latest exhibition, Yes, There Will Be Singing, is the captivating res...
Change Lab Season 9: Make to Know
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - September 02, 2021 20:33 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsPop quiz: Do artists and designers create to express what you know? Or do we make things to get to know ourselves and the world we inhabit? Those are a few of the questions we’ll be grappling with throughout the next season of Change Lab, launching on September 29th, with Lorne’s revelatory inte...
47 Pasadena City College President Erika Endrijonas on leveling the playing field
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - April 28, 2021 09:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsErika Endrijonas isn’t just an advocate for the pivotal role community colleges play in providing equal access to the American Dream. She is also an alum of Cal State Northridge and direct beneficiary of California’s longstanding commitment to affordable higher education for all. As such, she has...
46 UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ on creating institutional change from within
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - April 14, 2021 09:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThere are many apt metaphors for Carol Christ’s achievements. Most of them have to do with breaking things like glass ceilings or barriers or new ground in Victorian literary scholarship. But none of those do justice to the sheer scope of the professional arc Carol has traversed en route to her c...
45 Fuller Seminary President Mark Labberton on the theology of making
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - March 31, 2021 19:09 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAs President of Fuller Theological Seminary (with more than three decades of pastoral experience behind him), Mark Labberton is more than comfortable dwelling in uncertainty. For him, the space of the unknown is at least one way to access the kind of epiphany familiar to those of us on the creati...
44 Dan Brodnitz on democratizing education at LinkedIn Learning
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - March 17, 2021 18:20 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsDan Brodnitz didn’t set out to join a revolution in online education. He saw himself changing hearts and minds through his novels and poetry. Fate, however, had a different plan for Dan’s talents — but one no less transformative. It placed him at the helm of global content strategy at LinkedIn Le...
43 Occidental College President Harry Elam on finding a roadmap for systemic change in revolutionary theater movements
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - March 03, 2021 10:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHarry Elam and Lorne had only met casually before we sat down to record this episode of Change Lab. Interestingly, they had spent much of their early careers as two ships passing in the San Francisco Bay. Harry pursued his PhD in theater at U.C. Berkeley while Lorne earned the same degree at Stan...
42 D’Wayne Edwards on building a pipeline for diversity in sneaker design
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - February 17, 2021 10:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsD’Wayne has a lot in common with Michael Jordan, his former boss. His appetite for excellence has propelled him to superlative success. D’Wayne turned his childhood passion for drawing sneakers into a high-flying design career, moving from L.A. Gear to Sketchers and then eventually landing his dr...
Change Lab Season 8: Reinventing Education
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - February 10, 2021 10:30 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAs we begin a new year and a new season of change lab, I think most of us are torn between looking forward with hope and looking back with a kind of weary amazement we've prevailed over enormous obstacles in the last year. But as educators and designers, we know all too well that every challenge ...
41 Elle Hearns on Leading a Movement for Black Trans Lives
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - December 09, 2020 10:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsElle Hearns did not set out to lead movements for social justice. Nor was it her lifelong dream to make the world a better and safer place for Black transgender communities. Growing up in Ohio, she imagined herself as an iconic singer, a chart-topping diva with a voice powerful enough to crack yo...
40 Grace Lynne Haynes on painting to redefine darkness and light
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - November 25, 2020 10:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsGrace Lynne Haynes’ creative calling didn’t announce itself until she set foot in her first college painting class. But from that moment forward, Grace’s artistic destiny came through loud and clear, as unmistakable as a spiritual epiphany. Here’s how she describes it: “It almost reactivated my p...
Change Lab Present: Micheaux Mission
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - November 18, 2020 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThroughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a handpicked episode from podcasts by, for or about the Black community. This week we’re excited to share an episode from the Micheaux Mission. Since 2016, Len Webb and Vincent Williams have been challenging themselves to watch and revie...
Change Lab Presents: Micheaux Mission
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - November 18, 2020 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThroughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a handpicked episode from podcasts by, for or about the Black community. This week we’re excited to share an episode from the Micheaux Mission. Since 2016, Len Webb and Vincent Williams have been challenging themselves to watch and revie...
39 Cedric Johnson on thinking historically about racial justice and the policing crisis
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - November 11, 2020 10:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsLast year, Cedric Johnson embedded himself at ArtCenter for a week-long residency. Included in that visit was a talk about the policing crisis as well as a workshop with students exploring what it means to “do good” in the world through art and design. These issues have only become more timely i...
Change Lab Presents: Scene On Radio
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - November 05, 2020 15:20 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWelcome to our third episode of Change Lab Presents Throughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a handpicked episode from podcasts by, for or about the Black community. This week we’re excited to share an episode from Scene On Radio, produced by host John Biewen, in conversation w...
38 Kevin Bethune on realizing dreams through design
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - October 28, 2020 09:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsLike the consummate designer he is -- Kevin Bethune has iterated his own job description. Kevin’s strikingly diverse career-path includes stints as a nuclear engineer at Westinghouse Electric, a financial manager at Nike and strategic design innovator at Boston Consulting group -- all achievemen...
Change Lab Presents: The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - October 21, 2020 09:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWelcome to our second episode of Change Lab Presents Throughout this season, on alternating weeks, we’ll feature a series of bonus episodes we’ve handpicked from some of our favorite podcasts by, for or about the Black community. This week, we’re excited to share an episode from The Brown Girl's ...
37 Photographer Barbara DuMetz on bringing diversity to both sides of the camera
Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity - October 14, 2020 09:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThroughout her long and distinguished career as a commercial and fine art photographer, Barbara DuMetz has produced images that feel familiar even if you’re viewing them for the first time. Through her lens, even the most ordinary subject matter has a mythic quality. She has a story to tell that ...
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