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Where Must Design Go Next?

With Intent - March 22, 2023 15:20 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the final episode of our second season of With Intent, Jarrett Fuller asks ID Dean Anijo Mathew, Where Must Design Go Next?Anijo discusses ID’s pioneering history and where it’s headed next—summarizing ID’s four eras, defining what he calls Design Plus, and contextualizing the three forces act...

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How Can Design Make the Biggest Impact?

With Intent - March 15, 2023 15:58 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the fifth episode of our second season of With Intent, Jarrett Fuller asks ID Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainability Weslynne Ashton and Associate Professor of Design for Technology and Society John Payne, How Can Design Make the Biggest Impact? “In the business wo...

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Why Is Design Always Talking About Complexity?

With Intent - March 08, 2023 17:54 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the fourth episode of our second season of With Intent, Jarret Fuller asks ID Associate Professor of Healthcare Design and Design Methods Kim Erwin and Associate Professor of Civic and Community Design Maura Shea, Why Is Design Always Talking About Complexity? Kim and Maura discuss making cha...

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What If Human-Centered Design Isn’t Enough?

With Intent - March 01, 2023 11:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the third episode of our second season of With Intent, Jarrett Fuller asks ID Associate Professor of Behavioral Design Ruth Schmidt and Charles L. Owen Professor of Systems Design Carlos Teixeira, What If Human-Centered Design Isn’t Enough? Ruth and Carlos discuss the capabilities and limits o...

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How Do You Teach Design for Tomorrow?

With Intent - February 22, 2023 22:20 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The second episode of our second season of With Intent asks ID Associate Dean Matt Mayfield and Assistant Professor Zach Pino, How Do You Teach Design for Tomorrow? Matt and Zach discuss ID’s ever-evolving curriculum, the relationship of design to art, how students learn about technology at ID, t...

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How Does Someone Become A Designer?

With Intent - February 15, 2023 21:25 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Jarrett Fuller asks, How does someone become a designer? in the first episode of Season Two of With Intent. This episode features Tomoko Ichikawa, Associate Professor of Visual Communication, and Marty Thaler, Associate Professor of Product Design. Tomoko and Marty discuss ID's Foundation sequenc...

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Hope and action with Mushon Zer-Aviv

With Intent - November 30, 2021 22:37 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Mushon Zer-Aviv is an activist, artist, and designer. He's currently at work on devising new ways of understanding change and the future—ways that account for the limits of forecasting and consider the "darkness" of the future as a place for hope and possibility. He also discusses systemic bias,...

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Meaningful work with Marina Gorbis

With Intent - November 23, 2021 20:52 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Marina Gorbis is executive director of the Institute for the Future, a place where business executives, policymakers, nonprofits, and others use foresight and futuring techniques to make better long-term decisions. For example, you might work with the Institute for the Future to anticipate and be...

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Faith and permanence with Jon Veal

With Intent - November 16, 2021 19:27 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Jon Veal is co-founder of alt_, an organization that focuses on the power of community. The alt_ market is the organization's flagship program. Their first market transformed an abandoned space into a communal free market, encouraging community members to give, take, and take care of one another....

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Social arrangements with Kenneth Bailey

With Intent - November 09, 2021 20:23 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Kenneth Bailey, co-founder of the Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI), and co-author of Ideas, Arrangements, Effects, talks about his approach to building a better possible world. Talking about specific projects like Public Kitchen, as well as the thinking and pragmatism shared in his b...

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Innovation communities with Michela Magas

With Intent - November 02, 2021 20:45 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Michela Magas has had a nonlinear career path driven by a focus on bringing people together to make deliberate decisions that enable long-term creativity and innovation. Those decisions may reside in the realm of intellectual property, as in the Industry Commons, or music technology, as in the ca...

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Understanding "beautiful" with Ruth Reichstein

With Intent - October 26, 2021 20:43 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Episode 5 of With Intent is available now. Ruth Reichstein is part of the European Commission’s Presidential Advisory Board on the New European Bauhaus, or NEB, which was developed to help the EU achieve the goals set forth in its Europe Green Deal. The NEB aims to make Europe the first climate-n...

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An equitable economy with Richard Wallace

With Intent - October 19, 2021 19:18 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
An organizer in Chicago for more than a decade, Richard Wallace, founder and executive director of EAT (Equity and Transformation), is focused on supporting Black informal workers—people like George Floyd, who are boxed out of the formal economy. Richard explains the historic rivalry between His...

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Prescribing food with Rita Nguyen

With Intent - October 12, 2021 18:56 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Last week we talked about technology as medicine. This week: food as medicine. Rita Nguyen, Assistant Health Officer at the San Francisco Department of Public Health and founder of the Food as Medicine Collaborative, explains why doctors should be able to prescribe food—and why the healthcare sy...

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Technology as medicine with Tope Sadiku

With Intent - October 05, 2021 19:06 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
As Global Head of Employee Digital Experience at the Kraft Heinz Company, Tope Sadiku describes herself as a corporate doctor. To extend the metaphor: her patients are Kraft employees, and her medicine is technology.  Tope considers the evolving employee experience—really, how an employee spend...

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Utopianism and technology with Morgan Ames

With Intent - September 28, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the first episode of With Intent, Kristin Gecan talks to Morgan Ames, author of The Charisma Machine, about One Laptop Per Child—a hugely ambitious, or as Morgan defines it, charismatic—project with good intentions: to bring a laptop to every child in the developing world. We talk about why ...

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With Intent — Season 1 Trailer

With Intent - September 28, 2021 18:56 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
With Intent is a podcast from ID where we talk to a range of people—writers, designers, business strategists, policymakers, doctors, community organizers. The common thread? Whether they self-identify as designers or not, they're using design in their work.

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