Design Lab with Bon Ku: Recent Episodes
Bon Ku
Does living in a well-designed city make you healthier? How can surfing increase your creativity? Have you ever wondered why hospitals are so ugly? Bon Ku is a physician and an avid fan of design, food, surfboarding and Medicine. In each episode of DESIGN LAB, Bon and his guests tell stories about how the worlds of design, art, science and health intersect. Listen and learn new insights, hacks and design principles that you can apply to your own life.
This week we talk about how real food is the best medicine. Dan Barber is chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, and the author of The Third Plate. A fierce advocate for sustainable, ethical farming and cooking, Barber’s opinions on food and agricultural policy have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. He also co-founded Row 7 Seed Company, which brings together chefs and plant breeders to develop new varieties of vegetables and grains. Barber has received multiple James Beard awards including Best Chef: New York City (2006) and Outstanding Chef (2009). President Barack Obama appointed him to serve on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. Barber continues his work to blur the line between the dining experience and the educational, bringing the principles of good farming directly to the table. This episode was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Ideas: Health Festival. Special thanks to the Aspen Ideas team for making this happen! Bon also wrote a blog post for the event, 5 Reasons Why Clinicians Should Think Like Designers. Episode mentions and links: Blue Hill Farm Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture Book: The Third Plate Row 7 Seeds Chef Dan Barber brings new veggie varieties to the aisle with Row 7 Seed Company Michael Mazourek: Culinary Breeding Network Dan’s photo credit: Richard Boll Follow Dan: Twitter | Insta Follow Blue Hill Farm: Twitter | Insta Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/128
This week we talk about simplicity as a strategy. Howard Belk pulls double duty as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer of leading global brand experience consultancy Siegel+Gale, which he claims is one (or two) of the six best jobs on the planet. He is an entrepreneur who helped a 50-year-old branding firm reestablish industry leadership by embracing its disruptor legacy. Since his arrival at the firm in 2004, he and his colleagues have established Siegel+Gale as The Simplicity Company, truly the go-to firm to help untangle the mind-bending brand mash ups that result from the entrepreneurial adventures of the CEOs they love. Over his career, he has partnered with Fortune 500 clients to embrace the power of simplicity, purpose, experience and design to transform and grow their companies. Today, he is one of those rare birds who understands both business and design, and more importantly how to embrace one to succeed at the other. Episode mentions and links: Siegel + Gale Siegel + Gale: CVS Case Study Siegel + Gale: BMS Case Study Howard’s photo credit: Madeline King Howard’s restaurant rec: Omen Howard’s book rec: The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore Follow Howard: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn Follow Seigel and Gale: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/127
This week we talk about designing for diverse perspectives Katie is a designer and researcher; she is a design consultant and Senior Research Associate at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design which is an Inclusive design Centre based at the Royal College of Art in London. Katie is neurodivergent (Dyslexic and Dyspraxic) and for the last 16 years has collaborated with neurodivergent people to explore ways to make their everyday lives comfortable and enjoyable. Katie has worked within a range of contexts: Supported living accommodation, mental health hospitals, garden design, healthcare services, developing design standards for the built environment and street design. An important aspect of Katie’s PhD called: A designer’s approach: Exploring how autistic adults with additional learning disabilities experience their home environment, was to explore how to connect and engage with people beyond verbal speech. A great lesson learnt was the importance of empathy, something that can grow and develop. Katie speaks not as an expert but as a person with lived experience and the privilege of collaborating with lots of different people. Episode mentions and links: Design Lab Podcast Ep 36 with Rama Gheerawo Heart n Soul: Believe in Us Streets for Diversity Streets for Diversity Survey Katie’s restaurant rec: The Jetty Follow Katie: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/126
This week we talk about designing human-centered care, at home. Gregory Snyder is a clinical innovator and physician executive leading technology-enabled care delivery models to improve healthcare quality and safety. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine residency, and Harvard Business School. He practices hospital medicine at Mass General Brigham Newton-Wellesley and is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Mass General Healthcare Transformation Lab. Greg is Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, and adjunct faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is focused on scaling virtual hospital at home programs and improving the quality and safety of home-based care as Vice President of Clinical Strategy & Quality Improvement for Medically Home. Greg has partnered with diverse healthcare technology ventures to improve healthcare quality, safety, value, and experience. Episode mentions and links: Medically Home Greg’s restaurant rec: Parc Philadelphia Follow Greg: LinkedIn Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/125
This week we talk about the story of nursing how it has shaped our world. Sarah DiGregorio is the critically acclaimed author of Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human and Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World. She is a journalist who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and Insider, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughter and husband. For more information please visit her website: http://sarahdigregorio.com/ Episode mentions and links: Sarah’s Website Book: Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World Book: Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human Book Review: Healing the Unsung Healers via NYT Sarah Digregorio at HarperCollins Publishers Sarah’s restaurant rec: Ayat NYC Follow Sarah: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/124
Today we talk about building a healthy relationship with the ocean. Helen Czerski was born in Manchester. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. As a physicist, she studies the bubbles generated by breaking waves in the ocean to understand their influence on weather and climate. Helen has been a regular presenter of BBC TV science documentaries since 2011. She also hosts the Ocean Matters podcast, is part of the Cosmic Shambles network, and is one of the presenters for the Fully Charged Show. She has been a science columnist for the Wall Street Journal since 2017 and she is the author of the bestselling Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book, and Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works. Episode mentions and links: Helen's Website Helen’s latest book: The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works Helen’s other works Scripps Institute of Oceanography Article by Helen: Why we need to respect Earth’s last great wilderness – the ocean - via The Guardian Helen’s restaurant rec: Old Ship Hammersmith Follow Helen: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/123
This week, Bon talks about redesigning medicine with Will and Kristin Flanary (aka the Glaucomfleckens)! Knock Knock, Hi! Is a podcast and YouTube series hosted by Will and Kristin Flanary (aka the Glaucomfleckens). I had the chance to join this famous duo on their show and chat about redesigning medicine. We talk about why fax machines are still a thing, how I can die happy if we figure out how to eliminate hallway beds from ever being a thing, And how Dr. Glaucomflecken really just nailed his emergency medicine character. ICYMI we are rebroadcasting that interview for you this week on Design Lab. If you want to see the video of the episode or listen to the full episode of Knock Knock, we’ll share links in the show notes. Episode mentions and links: The Glaucomfleckens Lady Glaucomflecken Dr. Glaucomflecken Knock Knock, Hi with the Glaucomfleckens! Video of the episode via YouTube Human Content Productions "Why do hospitals still use fax machines? Jefferson's Bon Ku has no answers for medical comedian" - Via The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Tom Avril Follow Dr. Glaucomflecken: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok Follow Lady Glaucomflecken: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/122
How can we design for trust? What is the most transformative force in healthcare? On today's episode, you're going to learn how students at a design class at Stanford started Noora Health.Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam are Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Working across 300+ health facilities in India and Bangladesh, Noora Health turns hospital hallways and waiting rooms into classrooms to deliver fit-for-purpose, high-quality training for post-surgical, post-delivery, and general care, then follows up with families at home using mobile messaging technologies. To date, Noora Health's programs have reached nearly 2 million patients and caregivers. Noora Health was named a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.Episode Links and Mentions:https://www.noorahealth.org/Design For Extreme AffordabilityAudacious ProjectAudacious Project 2021-22 Cohort2022 Skoll Award For Social InnovationTED2022 Edith Elliott and Shahed AlamThe food Edith and Shahed would treat you to if you visited them in India is first a Pani Puri Happy Hour at the Noora Office followed by Dosas at Jayadeva Institute!Follow Noora Health: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedInEpisode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/noorahealthMore episode sources & linksSign-up for Design Lab Podcast’s NewsletterPrevious Episode Newsletters and ShownotesFollow @DesignLabPod on Twitter Instagram LinkedIn FacebookFollow @BonKu on Twitter & InstagramCheck out the Health Design LabProduction by Robert PuglieseEdit by Fernando QueirozCover Design by Eden LewTheme song by Emmanuel HoustonIndexed in the Library of Congress: ISSN 2833-2032
Learn about the creative journey of a Chinese immigrant who served as a Green Beret and then started a medical device company that uses AI to make hospitals safer. Michael Wang graduated from Emory University and Columbia University and is the founder of Inspiren, a clinician-led technology company that uses AI and computer vision to augment and improve clinical outcomes. He is a licensed advanced practice clinician specializing in Cardiothoracic Surgery and Acute Care. Prior to his entrepreneurial and medical career, he served as a Green Beret in the United States Army Special Forces. Episode Links and Mentions: Mike’s Link List: Inspiren The restaurant Mike would take you to: Mógū: Modern Chinese Kitchen Keep an eye out for Mike's forthcoming book, Unbeaten! Follow Inspiren: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/michaelwang
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Is your health suffering from nature deprivation? Why are doctors prescribing park prescriptions? Can nature exposure prevent the onset of chronic disease? Dr. Melissa Lem is a Vancouver family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada. Director of PaRx, Canada’s national nature prescription program powered by the BC Parks Foundation, and President-Elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, she is an internationally recognized leader in the field of nature and health. As a widely published writer, climate change panelist on CBC Radio's Early Edition, in-house medical columnist for CBC TV Vancouver, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, one of her major priorities is knowledge translation. Dr. Lem was the inaugural winner of University College’s Young Alumni of Influence Award at the University of Toronto, a 2021 World Parks Week Ambassador, and sits on the Advisory Committee of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Health and Well-being Specialist Group. Episode Links and Mentions: Melissa’s Link List: https://lnk.bio/s5o7 A Prescription for Nature: PaRx Books recommended by Melissa: Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv Robert’s Rules of Order The restaurant Melissa would take you to: The Boathouse Restaurant Follow Melissa: Twitter | Instagram Episode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/melissalem
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Can we view life as a design project? What design principles can help us be more creative? Why should we start designing for the life we want as we grow older? Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Episode Links and Mentions: https://www.aysebirsel.com/ http://ayse-birsel.squarespace.com/ Birsel + Seck Ayse’s new book: Design the Long Life You Love Ayse’e first book: Design the Life You Love Books recommended by Ayse: The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp The Earned Life by Marshall Goldsmith The Long Game by Dorie Clark To be Honest by Ron A. Carucci How to Begin by Michael Bungay Stanier The restaurant Ayse would take you to: Tonchin Follow Ayse: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook Episode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/aysebirsel
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How can we microdose nature into the built environment? What are the benefits of green spaces and who has access to them? What’s the story behind Billie Holiday’s song Strange Fruit? Jennifer D. Roberts is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD). Dr. Roberts is also the Founder and Director of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory as well as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of NatureRx@UMD, an initiative that emphasizes the natural environmental benefits interspersed throughout and around the UMD campus. Her scholarship focuses on the impact of built, social, and natural environments, including the institutional and structural inequities of these environments, on the public health outcomes of marginalized communities. More specifically, much of her research has explored the dynamic relationship between environmental, social, and cultural determinants of physical activity and using empirical evidence of this relationship to infer complex health outcome patterns and disparities as well as instigate a powerful shift that recognizes, breaks, and transforms these conditions and determinants of health. Episode Links and Mentions: https://jenniferdeniseroberts.com/ Article: Mental health initiative connects UMD students with the outdoors Article: Advancing Health and Sustainability in Baltimore Video: Designing on the Front Lines: Safer Spaces Book Rec: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solution for the Climate Crisis Restaurant Rec: Seoul Food Follow Jennifer: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/jenniferroberts
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How might we better prepare for disasters? What role did deadly design play in Hurricane Katrina? How does the concept of triage during a crisis reflect our values? Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated television producer and the author of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She is a producer of the Five Days at Memorial limited series on Apple TV+. Fink’s work has often explored the impact of crises on health care and is informed by her background as an MD and former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones (she also holds a PhD in neuroscience). Five Days at Memorial, the recipient of eight book awards, was based on an article investigating patient deaths at Memorial Medical Center. Co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, the article won both a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award. As a news reporter, Fink extensively covered the Covid pandemic and, earlier, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, sharing Pulitzer Prizes in 2021 and 2015 with New York Times colleagues. Fink’s investigation into how the Ebola epidemic began in Sierra Leone and why it wasn’t stopped in time for the PBS Frontline episode Outbreak received an Emmy nomination for outstanding research in 2016. Fink often lectures on topics ranging from emergency preparedness to journalism and is an adjunct associate professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is at work on a book about the global Covid pandemic. Episode Links and Mentions: http://www.sherifink.net/ Article on the book via NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/books/five-days-at-memorial-by-sheri-fink.html Article about the new show via Entertainment Weekly: https://ew.com/tv/tv-reviews/five-days-at-memorial-review-apple-tv-plus/ Follow Sheri: Twitter | Facebook | Insta Episode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/sherifink
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How does one of the world’s most renowned photographers humanize data? Can ordinary people do extraordinary things? What is true power? Platon is one of the world's most renowned portrait photographers, having photographed more world leaders than anyone else in history, including six American presidents. He has photographed over 30 covers for TIME Magazine, including their 2008 Vladimir Putin Person of The Year cover, which was awarded 1st prize at the World Press Photo Contest. In 2008, Platon signed on as staff photographer to the New Yorker, winning a Peabody Award and two National Magazine Awards for his photo essays. He has published four books with subjects ranging from the power of world leaders to the dignity of those who serve in the US Military. In 2013, Platon founded The People’s Portfolio, a non-profit foundation dedicated to celebrating emerging leaders of human rights and civil rights around the world. The People’s Portfolio creates a visual language that breaks barriers, uplifts dignity, fights discrimination, and enlists the public to support human rights around the world. Platon is currently on the board for Arts and Culture at the World Economic Forum. Platon’s life’s work is the subject of a Netflix documentary, Abstract: The Art of Design. His first film, My Body Is Not A Weapon, features survivors of wartime sexual violence and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege. In 2020, Platon’s archive of prominent African American civil rights leaders and cultural leaders was acquired by the Smithsonian. Episode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/platon Follow Platon: Twitter | Facebook | Insta Episode Links and Mentions: http://www.platonphoto.com https://www.thepeoplesportfolio.org https://www.mukwegefoundation.org Original portrait of Platon by Michele Murray
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Can we survive the next pandemic? How does the Covid-19 pandemic parallel the HIV pandemic? What lessons can we learn from the current global pandemic response? David France is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning investigative journalist. His directorial debut, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, received Academy and Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award. His 2017 film, THE DEATH & LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, was awarded the Outfest “Freedom Award”. David premiered his third documentary, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the special jury award for documentary editing. It received numerous awards, including BAFTA and Peabody. David's latest film, HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC, premiered at the 2022 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Episode Website/Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/davidfrance Follow David: Twitter | Facebook | Insta | IMDb
Episode Links and Mentions: David’s website: https://www.davidfrance.com/ Select Reviews of David's Films: Review: Journal of a plague year via Boston Globe Review: ‘This massive undertaking was invisible’: film glimpses behind the curtain as Covid vaccine was made via The Guardian Review: ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Review: A Vital Indictment of Mass Persecution via NYT Review: ‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ Review: A Stonewall Hero Is Mourned In Fascinating Detective Story — Tribeca 2017 Review via Indie Wire Review: A Story of AIDS, From the Beginning via NYT
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Valerie Casey is Senior Vice President and Chief Design Officer at Walmart where she leads a team of amazing designers creating the future of retail. Her team’s mission is to bring access and dignity through design excellence to everyone, regardless of their zip code or bank account balance. Valerie’s team uses design thinking and rapid experimentation to inspire and align cross-functional groups throughout the portfolio – from creating customer experiences and employee tools to designing digital products and in-store services. Prior to Walmart, Valerie was Chief Product Officer at Samsung NEXT, and an executive leader at world-renowned design studios IDEO, frog design and Pentagram. She is the founder of the Designers Accord, the largest global community of designers working together to create positive social and environmental impact. Valerie was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She has served on several boards, including the Ford CX Board, WEF Entrepreneurship Council, and the Kleiner Perkins Design Council. Casey was named: 100 Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company; Guru of the Year, Fortune magazine; Hero of the Environment, Time magazine; Master of Design, Fast Company; one of the World's Most Influential Designers, Businessweek. She holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MED from Yale. Episode Mentions: http://valcasey.com/ Website: Designers Accord Website: Core77: Adopt the Designers Accord Article: Walmart Made An Incredibly Sharp Move This Month Hiring Valerie Casey Video: Brainstorm Design 2022 - Designing A Regenerative Company Follow Valerie: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/valeriecasey
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How do you design care for patients with Long Covid? Will the pandemic lead to a redesign of medical education? Can design principles create safer standards in healthcare? Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh specializes in adult pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on medical education. She attends in the Medical ICU, the Neuro ICU, on the Internal Medicine teaching wards, and has a clinic at the Pulmonary Outpatient Faculty Practice at UCSF-Parnassus. She is the founder and Medical Director of the multidisciplinary OPTIMAL Clinic (pOst-covid-19/PosT-Icu MultidisciplinAry cLinic) at UCSF Health. She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the Assistant Site Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Parnassus. She also is the Director of the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. She obtained her Master's in Health Professions Education from UC-Berkeley. Her primary interests in medical education research are related to ICU transitions of care, women in leadership, clinical reasoning, and subspecialty career choice. Episode Mentions: Interview w Lekshmi: What We Do — and, Frustratingly, Don’t — Know About Long Covid Article: Long Covid-19 may remain a chronic condition for millions Article: On the Long Road to Understanding Long Covid, This UCSF Initiative Leads Article: Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and What to Do About It.
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Can we design intellectual antibodies? How does misinformation spread like a virus? Why do our brains cling to biases? Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize finalist, medical doctor and Stanford and UCLA professor as well as a CEO coach working with Corporate Edge. Dr. Yasmin served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC, as a science reporter for The Dallas Morning News and medical analyst for CNN. The author of five books, her reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and on the BBC, NBC and other news networks. Dr. Yasmin’s unique combination of expertise as a dually-trained physician and medical journalist have been called upon by the Vatican, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the White House. Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University, and visiting professor of crisis communication at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. She trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and in medicine at the University of Cambridge. Her newest book, What the Fact?! is a navigation guide for teens (and adults!) on how to survive the murky worlds of misinformation and disinformation and become savvy consumers of information.
Episode Mentions: Seema’s Website: https://seemayasmin.com/ Website: Stanford Health Communication Initiative Seema’s New Book: What the Fact!? (Book drops on Sept 20th, 2022) Article: Must-read books coming out in Sept 2022 Article: Doctors are spreading COVID disinformation. California needs to do something about it
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Does loneliness make us sicker? Do people who have more friends live longer? Why is loneliness a public health issue? Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a professor of psychology and neuroscience, and the Martin B. Hickman distinguished scholar at Brigham Young University. She is also the founding scientific chair of the U.S. Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness and Foundation for Social Connections. Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s research is focused on understanding the long-term health effects, biological mechanisms, and effective strategies to mitigate risk and promote protection associated with social connection. Her work has been seminal in the recognition of social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for early mortality. She serves as a scientific advisor and regularly consults for organizations across sectors aimed at addressing this issue. She has provided expert testimony in a US Congressional Hearing, consults with the office of the US Surgeon General, served as a member of the UK Cross Departmental Loneliness Team, a member of a National Academy of Sciences consensus committee, and a subject matter expert for the Gravity Project and Commit to Connect the national clearinghouse of interventions. Her work has been widely recognized within her discipline, including several awards, and is regularly highlighted in major media outlets. Episode Mentions: Julianne’s Website: https://www.julianneholtlunstad.com Julianne’s Academic Site: https://julianneholtlunstad.byu.edu Coalition to End Social Isolation and Lonliness Foundation for Social Connection Gravity Project Article: Reducing Social Isolation Isn’t Rocket Science, or Is It? - Psychology Today Article: Social isolation and loneliness increase the risk of death from heart attack, stroke - Science Daily Article: Loneliness among older people: A research roundup and 5 tips for covering the topic - The Journalist’s Resource Follow Julianne: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/julianneholtlunstad
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Is there scientific evidence behind the daily decisions you make about your health? What role should clinician scientists and institutions play in debunking pseudoscience? Why does misinformation spread like a virus? Timothy Caulfield is a Best selling author and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science and public health policy has allowed him to publish over 350 academic articles. He has won numerous academic and writing awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He contributes frequently to the popular press and is the author of two national bestsellers: The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) The Science of Celebrity…or Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? (Penguin 2015). His most recent book is Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety (Penguin Random House, 2020). Caulfield is also the host and co-producer of the award winning documentary TV show, A User's Guide to Cheating Death, which has been shown in over 60 countries, including streaming on Netflix in North America. Episode Mentions: Show: A Users Guide to Cheating Death (via IMDB) Website: University of Alberta Books Website: Penguin Random House Canada Publications via Google Scholar Follow Timothy: Twitter | Insta Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/timothycaulfield
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Why do we hate disability? Why does design neglect disability? How do disabled people tap into their creativity to make the world accessible? Laura Mauldin is a writer, sociologist, and interdisciplinary scholar based in Brooklyn, NY. She's currently an associate professor at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses broadly on disability, care, and technology. Her first book, Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children, documented the structure and culture of the systems we’ve designed to try to make deaf kids hear. Currently, she is writing a nonfiction book on spousal caregiving that weaves together research, memoir, and cultural commentary. She’s recently published articles in The American Prospect, Baffler Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of books connected to spousal caregiving. Most recently, she launched the new website DisabilityAtHome.org which documents the daily hacks that disabled people and caregivers have devised to make life work at home. Episode Mentions: Book: Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children by Laura Mauldin Website: disabilityathome.org Article: Care Tactics: Hacking an Abelist World by Laura Mauldin Article: Finding Comfort at Home: New Website Logs Solutions to Everyday Problems for Disabled People and Their Caregivers Follow: Liz Jackson Follow: Imani Barbarin Website: Well Spouse Association
Other related content: Website: engineeringathome.org Link: Designing for Disability - TED Talks
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How do you define curiosity? Can it make us happier? Does curiosity have style? Perry Zurn is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University and the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014. They're the authors of the forthcoming book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT Press, September 2022). Episode Mentions: https://www.perryzurn.com/ https://Danisbassett.com/ Guest photo credit: Tony & Tracy Wood Photography - Lissa Warren Follow Perry: Twitter | LinkedIn Follow Dani: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/perryanddani
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Does creativity help physicians care for their patients? Can making space for stories improve healthcare? How does imagination come into play in the practice of Medicine? Jay Baruch is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he directs the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration. He's a practicing ER doc, writer and educator. His upcoming book of non-fiction, narrative essays is: Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER (MIT Press, fall 2022) He is also the author of two award-winning short fiction collections, "What's Left Out" and and "Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers" (Kent State University Press, 2007). His academic work emerged as a response to the realization that medical training didn't prepare him for the complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity that pervades patient care. His teaching involves interdisciplinary collaborations and pushing boundaries with people who hold different expertise and ways of looking at the world. His innovative collaborators have included brilliant museum educators, designers, and artists. Past honors include Director-at-Large, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the medical humanities section chair for the American College of Emergency Physicians, and faculty fellow at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. He received the inaugural Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Gold Humanism Award and the Brown Emergency Medicine, Innovations in Education Award. His current work focuses on arts and health and designing authentic spaces for fostering difficult conversations. Episode Mentions: Jay Baruch, MD. Doctoring and writing, creatively Book: Tornado of Life. A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER Follow Jay: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/jaybaruch
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How can we create a healthy work culture? What is equitable listening? How does making space for learning benefit organizations? Nina Bianchi is a Solutions Principal at Medallia with the regulated industry practice (government, healthcare, and life sciences). Prior to joining Medallia, she served as Chief of People and Culture at the U. S. Food and Drug Administration in partnership with the U. S. General Services Administration IT Modernization Centers of Excellence. As a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow with the Biden Cancer Moonshot 1.0 at the National Cancer Institute, she coached diverse stakeholders in leading culture transformation and designing healthier work experiences to drive personalized patient experiences. Much of the work of building positive employee experiences, frontlines to C-suites, rests on creative leaders who reimagine how we measure and improve experiences over time. Before joining the federal government, Nina co-founded and ran a social innovation consulting enterprise that fostered a vast portfolio of high-impact public-private partnerships for over a decade. Her teams designed experiential solutions for local, national, and international clients including City governments across the globe, philanthropic organizations, non-profits, Fortune 500, and leading institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Episode Mentions: Amy Abernethy | FDA Healthcare Customer Experience | Medallia New podcast: Solving For X - ATARC Article: The State of Employee & Customer Experience in Government: Q&A with Nina Bianchi Follow Nina: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/ninabianchi
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How does design unlock your creative abilities? Why is it so hard for us to tolerate ambiguity? Can the fundamentals of design help us to learn more quickly? Sarah Stein Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Stanford d.school. She leads a community of designers, faculty, and other innovative thinkers who help people unlock their creative abilities and apply them to the world. Sarah speaks regularly at universities and global conferences on design, business, and education. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in history from Oberlin College. Sarah also serves as a trustee for Rare, a global conservation organization. Among other creative pursuits, she spends her free time as an underwater and wildlife photographer. She lives in San Francisco. Episode Mentions: Books from the d.school Book: Creative Acts for Curious People by Sarah Stein Greenberg Book: Make Space (awesome book about designing creative spaces) Article: Recipe for a Tasty d.school Resource: Teaching and Learning Studio faculty workshops Follow Sarah: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/sarahsteingreenberg
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Sudhakar Nuti, MD, MSc is a primary care doctor and public servant who seeks to use clinical medicine, science, and policy to improve the health of disadvantaged people in America. He trained in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital during the height of the COVID pandemic and will start working in the New York public health care system later this year caring for people experiencing homelessness. He has done extensive research studying health disparities in the United States and has worked in the health departments of New York City and North Carolina to design and implement policies and programs to improve health equity. For his work he has been recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in healthcare, a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum, and a STAT Wunderkind. He obtained his BA and MD from Yale University and his MSc in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Episode Mentions: I worry that burnout can’t be reversed and has fundamentally changed me as a doctor and a person Follow Sudhakar: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/sudhakarnuti
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Katie Osborn’s passion for wayfinding is at the heart of improving people’s interactions with the built environment and is a believer in collaborating with experts to create ambitious, user-centered, and experiential design solutions. She is a regular speaker on wayfinding strategy and how it is “more than just signs,” sharing her expertise and passion for solutions that work for all people. She has presented her ideas and projects at national conferences for the American Planning Association, American Institute of Architects, and Society for Experiential Graphic Design. Before establishing Via Collective, Katie’s prior experience includes large scale projects with Pentagram and Citizen Research & Design. She holds BFA from the University of Wisconsin – Stout; taught typography and design at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota; is a past board member of AIGA Minnesota; She currently serves as the Director of Communications for the AIA NY Transportation & Infrastructure committee. Episode Mentions: Via Collective The Importance of Universal Design Book: Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Sylvia Harris Wayfinding in the Tokyo Subway System Follow Via Collective: Twitter | Insta Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/katieosborn
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Why is almost everything we know about pain wrong? How can we reframe our understanding of chronic pain? Is there a more effective way to treat pain outside of pills and procedures? Haider Warraich is a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has published more than 135 papers including in the NEJM and JAMA. He frequently writes for the New York Times and Washington Post, and is the author of the books Modern Death, State of the Heart and the just published The Song of Our Scars – The Untold Story of Pain (April 2022). Follow Haider: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/haiderwarraich
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How can better designed healthcare tools decrease clinician burnout? Why does the EHR suck so bad? What are ways to improve data visualization in the medical record? As a hospitalist and Associate CMIO at Penn Medicine, Dr. Subha Airan-Javia recognized the daily challenges clinicians faced due to inefficient workflows and poorly designed technology. Knowing there was a better way she decided to pursue a career in clinical informatics instead of cardiology and critical care medicine. Subha also has a passion for how to improve communication between teams in medicine. She developed Penn Medicine’s handoff training curriculum for students and trainees, as well as developed a curriculum to teach medical students how to incorporate technology into clinical care in a way that improves patient encounters instead of detracting from them. Over the next 15 years as faculty at Penn Medicine, Subha worked to bridge the gap between front line clinicians and the development of health technology. In that work, she and her team created CareAlign, a care team collaboration platform to help teams of clinicians work together to take better, more efficient care of patients. Seeing how CareAlign revolutionized clinical workflows at Penn, Subha knew the platform could bring the same value to other institutions – which is how CareAlign the company, came to be. She spun the platform out of Penn Medicine, and now works to bring care team collaboration to other health systems and care settings. With a driving mission of making it easier for clinicians to do the right thing for patients, Subha believes technology should facilitate healthcare delivery instead of making it harder. Follow Subha: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/subhaairanjavia
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Can the practice of writing make better physicians? Why are stories essential to the practice of Medicine? How can you become a better storyteller? Alessandra Colaianni is a writer and head and neck surgeon who specializes in the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer. She writes creative nonfiction essays about the world of surgical training, medical ethics, medical education, and illness. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Examined Life Journal, Intima, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Hobart, and other venues. Follow Alessandra: Twitter Episode website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/alessandracolaianni
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What is the relationship between smell and memory? Can our sense of smell improve our emotional health? Should a smell check be a part of our regular check-ups? Nancy Rawson is Vice President of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, and holds a master’s degree in nutrition from the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate in biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her career spans academia and industry, including a faculty position at the Monell Center studying how age and health impacts taste and smell, and various roles in the food and ingredient industries where she built research teams from the ground up and received awards for new product innovation. Since 2016, she has been at Monell, working to catalyze and manage Monell’s relationships with nearly 40 corporate partners and lead strategic and operational planning activities to support the Center’s growth and success. She continues to advance research into taste and smell disorders, is a founding advisor for the Smell and Taste Association of North America and is committed to increasing awareness of the importance of taste and smell for our health and wellbeing.
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What is a design anthropologist? How can design reframe challenges in global health? Why does Montreal have outdoor staircases? Tracy Johnson is a Design Anthropologist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she leads a portfolio of interdisciplinary investments, integrating human-centered design with the social and behavioral sciences and data analytics to bring about a deeper understanding of vulnerability as a pathway to the delivery of more equitable health outcomes. She leads the DesignforHealth.org community and was the guest editor of the Global Health: Science & Practice special supplement entitled Design for Health: Human Centered Design Looks to the Future. She received her PhD in social and cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Other Episode Mentions: Video: Blinded by Empathy Follow Tracy: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/tracyjohnson
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What is the role of culture when designing for humans? How can you create a culture of creativity? Do you always need to do research before designing? Phnam is a partner at Nonfiction, a San Francisco-based design firm that turns science fiction into reality for a better future. She is a French industrial designer, futurist and aerospace architect. Her focus is on designing and developing cutting-edge hardware in Wearables, Healthcare, Education, Renewable Energy, Robotics, Transportation, and Aerospace. She specializes in turning groundbreaking technologies into impactful, intuitive, and beautiful products that help humans become the best versions of themselves. With her partner Mardis, Phnam co-hosts Future Future, a video series about design and the future of everything. Follow Phnam Bagley on: Twitter | LinkedIn Follow Nonfiction on: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/phnambagley
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As Director of Building Design & Building Performance at ICON, Melodie Yashar oversees the architectural direction of ICON’s built work as well as the performance of ICON’s building systems. Collaborating across technology and construction teams, the goal of Building Design & Building Performance at ICON is to deliver optimally-performing structures enabled by 3D-printing and shift the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond. Prior to ICON, Melodie was a Senior Associate Researcher in human factors with San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames, a co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), a group developing human-supporting concepts for space exploration, as well as a professor of design at Pratt Institute and Art Center College of Design. As a co-founder of SEArch+, Melodie collaborated with ICON on design schematics for a permanent Lunar base for Project Olympus. Melodie has worked as a design architect at Locatelli Partners, Pentagram, AvroKo, and Studio Geiger Architecture & Design. Episode Mentions: Mars Dune Alpha Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies (MMPACT) Jobs at ICON Spacearchitect.org Follow Melodie Yashar on Instagram | LinkedIn Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/melodieyashar
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This is part 3 of a special 3-part virtual talk in partnership with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University. Architects are reimagining the places where we live, work, and gather. Many modern indoor spaces are sealed shut and climate-controlled. The pandemic prompted people to open the windows, move activities outside, and control the flow of indoor air. From plastic sneeze guards to graphics for social distancing, new norms sprang quickly into place. What worked and what didn’t? How can everyone have access to healthier spaces? Panelists include Jennifer D. Roberts, University of Maryland School of Public Health; Jennifer Tobias, Researcher, New York City Streateries; and Andrew M. Ibrahim, University of Michigan and HOK The panel was moderated by Morgan Hutchinson and Ellen Lupton. Video archives of the series are also available at CooperHewitt.org. Watch videos of previous episodes of DOTFL Season 1 and Season 2 Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/dotfl3 More episode sources & links Sign-up for Design Lab Podcast’s Newsletter Newsletter Archive Follow @DesignLabPod on Twitter Instagram and LinkedIn Follow @BonKu on Twitter and Instagram Check out the Health Design Lab Production by Robert Pugliese Cover Design by Eden Lew Theme song by Emmanuel Houston
Is surfing the most addictive sport? How did surfing help a writer with a substance use disorder enter into recovery? What activities can be a form of therapy for you? Thad Ziolkowski is a lifelong surfer, person in recovery, and the author, most recently, of The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery, which was published in 2021 by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins. His memoir On a Wave (Grove/Atlantic) was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003 and his novel, Wichita (Europa Editions) appeared in 2012 to critical acclaim. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, Travel & Leisure, Interview Magazine and Index. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has a PhD in English Literature from Yale University. Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/thadziolkowski
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How does an architect end up working on Obamacare? What are the differences between designing with data and physical materials? Why does the government need more designers?
Sha Hwang is COO and co-founder at Nava, a public benefit corporation working to make government services simple, effective, and accessible. Founded as a part of efforts to help fix HealthCare.gov, Nava now works on projects across Medicare, Department of Veterans Affairs, and at the state level on large efforts to improve government digital services. A failed architect and accidental entrepreneur, Sha has worked with clients such as the New York Times, the Harvard Library Lab, CNN, MTV, Flickr, and Adobe. Prior to Nava, Sha worked at Stamen Design and later co-founded the company Movity, which was acquired by Trulia. Sha has spoken frequently at events including the White House Datapalooza, Webstock, Eyeo Festival, and Visualized. Follow Sha Hwang: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram Follow Nava: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/shahwang
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What is an open source vaccine? How are vaccine and beer production similar? Are D.I.Y. vaccine starters kits the best strategy to vaccinate the world? Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi is an internationally recognized tropical and emerging disease vaccinologist, global health advocate and co-creator of a patent-free, open science COVID-19 vaccine technology that led to the development of Corbevax, a COVID-19 vaccine for the world. She pioneers and leads innovative partnerships for the advancement of a robust vaccine development portfolio tackling diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest populations, making significant contributions to catalyze policies and disseminate science information to reach a diverse set of audiences. In 2022, alongside vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, she was nominated by Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher of Texas for the Nobel Peace Prize. Follow Maria Elena Bottazzi: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/mariaelenabottazzi
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This is part 2 of a special 3-part virtual talk in partnership with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University. Designers are working quickly to protect humans from illness. At the start of the pandemic, designs for personal protective equipment (PPE) had changed very little for nearly fifty years. In the face of alarming shortages, the global maker movement jumped into action, and legions of home sewers stitched masks for essential workers. Engineers, artists, doctors, and designers sought to improve the comfort, effectiveness, and sustainability of PPE. Meanwhile, official guidelines were shifting. What is the state of PPE design now? Panelists include Monique Smith, MD, Emory University; Adam Wentworth, Teal Reusable Respirator; and Sabrina Paseman, Essential Mask Brace. The panel was moderated by Morgan Hutchinson and Ellen Lupton. Video archives of the series are also available at CooperHewitt.org. Episode Mentions: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/12/10/personal-protective-equipment/ https://www.emoryhealthdesigned.com/ https://www.teal-bio.com/ https://www.fixthemask.com/ Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/dotfl2
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Is the everyday world making us sick? Can we hold companies responsible for the health consequences of their products and services? How do you design health into the operating systems of our civilization? Steve Downs is a co-founder at Building H, a project to build health into everyday life. Steve, his Building H co-founder Thomas Goetz, and other collaborators are growing a community of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, engineers and researchers who believe that we need to re-imagine everyday life—how we eat, sleep, get from place to place, socialize and entertain ourselves—to be healthy by design. In addition to community building, Building H and their collaborators are developing tools to help companies understand the impacts of their products and services on the health and well-being of their users. Steve is a lecturer at the d.school at Stanford University and an adjunct faculty member at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to his role at Building H, he was the chief technology and strategy officer at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) where he focused on the practice of program strategy and on the alignment of the Foundation’s technology strategy and operations with its organizational directions. Recognizing that RWJF’s pursuit of its ambitious Culture of Health vision required an approach to strategy that is highly flexible and adaptive, he led a transformation of the Foundation’s approach to program strategy. Born in New Hampshire, Steve earned an SM in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in physics and applied physics from Yale University. Thomas Goetz is a journalist, author and entrepreneur. He uses data, design, and stories to help people understand and navigate complicated issues in their lives. Thomas is the co-founder of Iodine, an award-winning website that helps people make sense of their health and medicines. In 2016, Iodine was acquired by GoodRx, America’s leading source for prescription drug savings, where he presently serves as chief of research. Thomas was previously the executive editor at WIRED, which he led to a dozen National Magazine Awards in as many years, and where he wrote dozens of cover stories on technology, science, and medicine. He began his career as a reporter at the Village Voice and the Wall Street Journal, and has written for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Bon Appetite. His writing has been repeatedly selected for the Best American Science Writing and Best Technology Writing anthologies. He served as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he founded Flip the Clinic, an RWJ Signature Program working to transform the practitioner-patient encounter. His 2010 TED talk on visualizing medical data has been viewed more than half a million times. He holds an MPH from UC Berkeley and a MA in literature from UVA. Follow Steve on Twitter | LinkedIn Follow Thomas on Twitter | LinkedIn
This episode is sponsored by: Fortune Brainstorm Design, to be held May 23-24 in Brooklyn is a curated experience for passionate and successful design and design-minded professionals. Join Fortune and be inspired by diverse examples of design excellence, explore how design thinking and practice can be challenged and advanced, meet and network with high-level peers, and leave with concrete ideas and partnerships to drive transformation within your organization. Listeners of Design Lab with Bon Ku can use code “designlab” for a 20% discount on registration! For more information or to register go to FortuneBrainstormDesign.com.
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Allan Chochinov is an educator, writer, speaker, and advocate for the power and capacity of design. He is the Founding Chair of the MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a partner of Core77, the design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts since 1995. Allan has moderated and led workshops and symposia at venues from the Aspen Design Conference to the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, and has been invited to speak on design at organizations from frog Design and SYPartners to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The New York Times, and the National AIGA. A frequent lecturer and critic, he has worked with students at schools including MIT, Yale School of Management, Columbia School of Business, RMIT, IIT, and Carnegie Mellon. Prior to SVA and Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields (early work focused on HIV/AIDS, and later projects included work for Johnson & Johnson, Oral-B, FedEx, and Herman Miller). He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, The One Club, I.D. Magazine, and Communication Arts. He has also served on the boards of the National AIGA organization, Designers Accord, Design Ignites Change, and NYCxDESIGN. Episode Mentions: Tanaka Kapec Design Group http://www.wedesigntosimplify.com/ Change Everything You Hate About Meetings With This One Single Word Follow Allan on Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn Show website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/allanchochinov
This episode is sponsored by: Fortune Brainstorm Design, to be held May 23-24 in Brooklyn is a curated experience for passionate and successful design and design-minded professionals. Join Fortune and be inspired by diverse examples of design excellence, explore how design thinking and practice can be challenged and advanced, meet and network with high-level peers, and leave with concrete ideas and partnerships to drive transformation within your organization. Listeners of Design Lab with Bon Ku can use code “designlab” for a 20% discount on registration! For more information or to register go to FortuneBrainstormDesign.com.
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How does design transform organizations? Why does diversity fuel innovation? What happens when you let curiosity guide you? Kevin Bethune is the Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, a "think tank" that delivers design & innovation services using a human-centered approach. Kevin's background spans engineering, business and design in equal proportion over his 20+ year career, positioning him to help brands deliver meaningful innovations to enrich people's lives. His work represents creative problem-solving that brings multidisciplinary teams together to see the future through an open aperture, and a deep industrial design approach to inform and influence desirable, feasible and business-viable design outcomes. Kevin began his career as a mechanical engineer in the nuclear power industry. This chapter gave him deep product experience working with high-performing teams across 14 nuclear reactor upgrade campaigns. After his MBA, Kevin joined Nike, Inc. in a business capacity, but quickly navigated to the Global Footwear product engine to drive advanced digital product creation capabilities, discovering the world of design in the process. After solidifying his creative foundation through further studies at ArtCenter College of Design, Kevin co-founded distinct design & innovation capabilities at two Tier 1 management consulting firms in Booz & Co. and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). As Vice President of Strategic Design at BCG Digital Ventures, he led a large cohort of designers that would influence and shape every corporate venture spun out from the incubator. Kevin left BCG Digital Ventures to carve his own path under the banner of dreams • design + life, focusing on unlocking human potential through strategic design, industrial design and the building of new ecologies. Kevin also serves as a Board Trustee for ArtCenter College of Design and the Board Chair for the Design Management Institute. Kevin’s book, Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation was published in March 2022. Follow Kevin on Twitter and Instagram Show website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/kevinbethune
This episode is sponsored by: Fortune Brainstorm Design, to be held May 23-24 in Brooklyn is a curated experience for passionate and successful design and design-minded professionals. Join Fortune and be inspired by diverse examples of design excellence, explore how design thinking and practice can be challenged and advanced, meet and network with high-level peers, and leave with concrete ideas and partnerships to drive transformation within your organization. Listeners of Design Lab with Bon Ku can use code “designlab” for a 20% discount on registration! For more information or to register go to FortuneBrainstormDesign.com.
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Can you microdose fun into your life? How can we become less addicted to our phones? Will injecting more fun into our daily lives make us more creative? Dubbed “The Marie Kondo of Brains” by The New York Times, Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist and speaker and the author of books including The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, and How to Break Up with Your Phone. She is also the creator and founder of ScreenLifeBalance.com, which is dedicated to helping people learn how to scroll less and live more. Her work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Slate, Men's Journal, Self, and Outside, among others. Bon and Catherine talk about fun magnets, minimizing flow disruptors and microdosing fun into our daily lives. This episode is sponsored by: Fortune Brainstorm Design, to be held May 23-24 in Brooklyn is a curated experience for passionate and successful design and design-minded professionals. Join Fortune and be inspired by diverse examples of design excellence, explore how design thinking and practice can be challenged and advanced, meet and network with high-level peers, and leave with concrete ideas and partnerships to drive transformation within your organization. Listeners of Design Lab with Bon Ku can use code “designlab” for a 20% discount on registration! For more information or to register go to FortuneBrainstormDesign.com. More episode sources & links Sign-up for Design Lab Podcast’s Newsletter Newsletter Archive Follow @DesignLabPod on Twitter and Instagram Follow @BonKu on Twitter and Instagram Check out the Health Design Lab Production by Robert Pugliese Cover Design by Eden Lew Theme song by Emmanuel Houston
This is part 1 of a special 3 part virtual talk in partnership with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University. Pandemic-inspired service designers are bringing health care to communities. COVID-19 forced health care providers to quickly ramp up existing services (telemedicine) and set up entirely new ones (mobile testing and vaccination sites). Hospitals around the world developed safe, robust services at record speed. Leah Reisman, PhD (Health & Wellness Director, Puentes de Salud), Sonya Stokes, MD, MPH (Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine) and Morgan Hutchinson, MD ( Jefferson Health Design Lab) discuss how to best serve neighborhoods at risk. The panel was moderated by Morgan Hutchinson and Ellen Lupton. Video archives of the series are also available at CooperHewitt.org.
Did you know that a graphic designer created the first over-the-counter pregnancy test? How did giving birth become medicalized? What does culturally appropriate care look like? Michelle Millar Fisher has worked as an educator, curator, and historian in universities and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the MFA Boston where she is currently the Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, design, and craft. She has co-authored many books, essays, and exhibitions including Design and Violence and Items: Is Fashion Modern? Amber Winick is a mother and design historian. She holds an MA in Design History, Decorative Arts, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, and a BA in child development and anthropology from Sarah Lawrence College. She has received two Fulbrights, and has lived and researched maternal and child-related designs, policies, and practices around the world. She has expertise in the designed systems, environments, and objects that empower (and disempower) us, particularly around birth, family leave, caregiving, schools, and early childhood.
Why have the designs of motherhood remained hidden? What can we learn from the design history of pessaries? How can we expand the definition of motherhood? Zoë Greggs (she/they) is a Black, queer, femme, nonbinary Philadelphia-based artist and non-profit administrator. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts with a concentration in printmaking and book arts. In 2020, they participated in ArtWell’s Equity fellowship program that champions the power of women and nonbinary people of color as change agents to tackle institutional race and gender bias in their organizations and beyond. Zoë is also the Curatorial Assistant for Designing Motherhood, where she brings her expertise of community engagement, project management, and art history. In addition, they co-leads the Designing Motherhood Storybanking Initiative, which utilizes the power of storytelling to advocate for a future where caregivers can birth with dignity, parent with autonomy, and raise babies who are healthy, growing, and thriving. Through their passion for Black feminism, critical race theory, and systems change, they strive to create processes and joyful relationships that uproot systemic harm and shift mainstream narratives about our shared history and trajectory. Gabriella Nelson is a mother and city planner, possessing a strong interest at the confluence of urban development, public health, and critical pedagogy. She currently works as the Associate Director of Policy for Maternity Care Coalition, advocating for the best policies and practices regarding maternal-child health and early learning. She believes the city is for everyone, especially for those who want to stay after bearing decades of disinvestment and devastation. Gabriella has lectured widely on topics of maternal-child health, city planning and advocacy, including at TEDxPhiladelphia. Gabriella is interested in redesigning cities, systems and policies that oppress and work against the liberation of those historically left behind. She identifies as a problem-solver, an inquisitive thinker, and a creative person whose experiences and opinions are deeply rooted in her womanhood, motherhood, and Blackness.
In this show we explore how can design help you live better. Does living in a well-designed city make you healthier? How can surfing increase your creativity? Have you ever wondered why hospitals are so ugly? Bon Ku is a physician and an avid fan of design, food, surfboarding and Medicine. In each episode of DESIGN LAB, Bon and his guests tell stories about how the worlds of design, art, science and health intersect. Listen and learn new insights, hacks and design principles that you can apply to your own life.
How do diseases shape design? What does a low cost prototype look like? Where can you view the face masks that Naomi Osaka wore during the U.S. Open? Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Her exhibitions include “Design & Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics,” “Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master,” “Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence,” and “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.” Her exhibition “Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” will be open December 2022–February 2023 at Cooper Hewitt. She teaches at MICA in Baltimore, where she has authored many books, including "Thinking with Type," "Graphic Design Thinking," and "Graphic Design: The New Basics." She is an AIGA Gold Medalist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
How can peer to peer connection make a healthier society? Can Amazon reviews give us fresh insight into our health? Why do on-line patient communities represent an incredible untapped resource in healthcare? How can a co-designed death give us a fuller life? Susannah Fox will help us answer these questions! Fox is a health and information technology researcher based in Washington, DC. She is a former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama Administration, where she led an open data and innovation lab. Prior to federal service, she was the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For 14 years she directed the health portfolio at the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project where she helped define a new market at the intersection of health, social media, and patient engagement. Fox currently serves on the board of directors of Cambia Health Solutions of Portland, OR, and Hive Networks of Cincinnati, OH. She is an advisor to Alladapt Immunotherapeutics, Archangels, Article 27, Atlas of Caregiving, Before Brands, Citizen, Equip Health, Faster Cures, and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at Smithsonian Institution. Fox is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a degree in anthropology. She is the mother of two children, a caregiver for elders, and lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Eric Halperin.
How can we leverage the built environment to unlock our potential? What happens when scientists, architects and public health experts work together? What are movement temptations? And how does planning for a dinner party unlock our creativity? Dina Sorensen will help us answer those questions. Dina is an award-winning, nationally recognized K-12 Education design leader, strategist, speaker, and author with a notable background for achievement in the design of innovative, healthy, high-performance schools. Fluent in all aspects of design, educational philosophy, and research in practice; she works across disciplines to construct meaningful, memorable connections between people and place. Trained at Parson’s School of Design in NYC and Paris, and the University of Virginia, Dina’s unique background in the arts, architecture, and interdisciplinary research informs her holistic approach to promoting health, well-being, engagement, joy, and creativity in architecture. Her passion for health-promoting design and collaborative research have pioneered significant contributions to school architecture and public health resulting in the first health promotion guidelines for school architecture; the Healthy Eating Design Guidelines for School Architecture and the Physical Activity Design Guidelines for School Architecture. Prior to founding d.studio - an interdisciplinary studio practice in 2020, Dina was an educational design leader at VMDO Architects, and the K-12 Design Leader at DLR Group in Washington DC. Dina is known for collaborating with exemplary leaders and entrepreneurs across many disciplines to harness creativity, insight, and innovation to advance an uptick in the adoption of healthier, happier schools by design. Her features in NPR, FastCompany, Time Magazine, and the recent book by science writer Emily Anthes The Great Indoors – The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness – continues to inspire the next generation of changemakers in architecture and design.
What is the superpower of designers? Why does healthcare need better design? And how do you create the condition for designers to thrive? Doug Powell has the answers. Doug is an award-winning designer with more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of design disciplines. A recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis, and the 2014 Fellow Award from AIGA Minnesota, Doug is a lecturer, commentator and thought leader on design issues. He has presented at a variety of global conferences, forums, and universities including Beirut Design Week in Lebanon, Fortune's Brainstorm Design in Singapore, and Yale School of Management. He was on the jury of the 2018 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards. Between 2011-2013 Doug served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design, the largest and most established design organization in the world. Until the end of 2021, Doug was Vice President of Design at IBM, where he helped to build one of the largest enterprise design organizations in the industry. In 2022, Doug became the VP of Design Practice Management at Expedia Group. Bon and Doug talk about the superpower of designers, why healthcare needs designers and how to create the conditions for designers to thrive.
Dr. Michelle Longmire is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Medable. Dr. Longmire is mission driven to accelerate the development of new therapies for disease. As a Stanford-trained physician-scientist, Dr. Longmire identified critical barriers to drug development and founded Medable to pioneer a new category of clinical trial technologies that remove traditional roadblocks to participation and radically accelerate the research process. Medable is now the industry leader in decentralized and direct-to-patient research, serving patients in clinical trials in over 30 languages, 40 countries, and across all therapeutic areas. In addition to having raised over 300 million dollars in venture capital and driving Medable to an industry-leading position, Dr. Longmire has received recognition as a leading innovator and business woman, including being named as one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company. Bon and Michelle talk about redesigning clinical trials, health equity in clinical trial diversity and the importance of the creative process in scientific discovery.
Jules Sherman is the Director of a new Biodesign Program with Innovation Ventures at Children's National Hospital. In this role, she teaches innovation and design methods to clinicians and co-creates novel medical products in collaboration with doctors and nurses at CNH with the intent to commercialize the inventions. She lectures at The University of Maryland’s Bioengineering Dept. Previously, she designed and co-taught original curricula with Stanford Children's Hospital physicians focused on healthcare design (products/services) at The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. She also worked as a product designer for The Safety Learning Lab for Neonatal and Maternal Care at Stanford Medicine for several years. As the founder of Maternal Life, LLC, Jules co-invented and developed medical products that improve healthcare outcomes for women and children.
Her first product Primo-Lacto: A closed system for colostrum collection, was acquired by Lansinoh in 2018. She is currently working on a product called "NOOMA" with colleagues from Stanford Medicine to help facilitate delayed cord clamping for the preterm infant population, and "Kangarobe," a patent-pending garment that makes skin-to-skin care in the neonatal ICU safer and easier. Her professional background is in consumer products, like kitchen housewares, architectural hardware and personal electronic response systems. Bon and Jules talk about creating safe spaces in hospitals for sharing needs, making labor and delivery safer and why healthcare is incredibly creative.
Grace Jun is the CEO of a Smithsonian National award-winning nonprofit organization called Open Style Lab and Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia where she researches creative practices that are inclusive of disability, which manifests into outcomes such as accessible graphic design and adaptive fashion. Grace's commitment to designing with disability groups is reflected in her latest publication, Universal Materiality, and an anticipated book on fashion & disability to be released for 2023. Grace has been featured in Forbes, New York Times Style, and recently the Washington Post. From the White House to ABC Channel News, Grace has been asked to speak about disability and design in numerous settings around the world. She is a proud alumnus of both Parsons School of Design and RISD majoring in Design & Technology (MFA) and Graphic Design (BFA) respectively. Grace has previously held positions as a UX Designer at Samsung Electronics and as an Assistant Professor at The New School, Parsons School of Fashion. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, Grace also serves on jury committees and organizations that advance the arts & design. Bon and Grace talk about co-design, the definition of inclusivity and why accessible design is better design.
Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is a Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group, a collective of architecture and design advocates dedicated to the construction of dignity. Since MASS’s beginnings, Michael’s portfolio documents work in over a dozen countries and spans the areas of healthcare, education, housing, urban development, food systems, indigenous sovereignty, and the public monument. Murphy's 2016 TED talk has reached over 1.7 million views, and he was awarded the Al Filipov Medal for Peace and Justice in 2017. Michael is the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Institute of Technology, Baumer Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School, and has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Michigan, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Under Michael’s guidance, MASS has been awarded globally and featured in over 900 publications. Most recently, MASS was selected as the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year, featured on CBS' 60 minutes and recognized as the winner of the AIA 2021 Collaborative Achievement Award, Wall Street Journal’s 2020 Architecture Innovator, the National Arts and Letters Award for 2017, and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Check out Michael’s new book, “The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity” and visit the “Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC! Bon and Michael geeked out about design and health for so long that we had to split the conversation into two episodes. They talk about the evolution of the modern hospital, creating buildings that breathe, bringing beauty into healthcare and so much more.
Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is a Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group, a collective of architecture and design advocates dedicated to the construction of dignity. Since MASS’s beginnings, Michael’s portfolio documents work in over a dozen countries and spans the areas of healthcare, education, housing, urban development, food systems, indigenous sovereignty, and the public monument. Murphy's 2016 TED talk has reached over 1.7 million views, and he was awarded the Al Filipov Medal for Peace and Justice in 2017. Michael is the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Institute of Technology, Baumer Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School, and has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Michigan, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Under Michael’s guidance, MASS has been awarded globally and featured in over 900 publications. Most recently, MASS was selected as the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year, featured on CBS' 60 minutes and recognized as the winner of the AIA 2021 Collaborative Achievement Award, Wall Street Journal’s 2020 Architecture Innovator, the National Arts and Letters Award for 2017, and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Check out Michael’s new book, “The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity” and visit the “Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC! Bon and Michael geeked out about design and health for so long that we had to split the conversation into two episodes. They talk about the evolution of the modern hospital, creating buildings that breathe, bringing beauty into healthcare and so much more.
As CEO of Equalize Health (formerly D-Rev), Krista Donaldson leads the design and scaling of disruptive medical devices to address global health inequities. To date, over 1M people – mostly children and young people - have been treated by one of Equalize Health’s products in 70+ countries. In 2020, the organization kicked off a bold new strategy to significantly increase the pipeline of innovative solutions that close healthcare gaps by 2030. Peter Singer of the Effective Altruism movement calls Equalize Health “one of the world’s best charities” because of its cost effectiveness and exemplary end-to-end processes. EH is based in New Delhi and San Francisco, with additional offices in Nairobi and Bangkok. Krista has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, TED speaker, and a GLG Social Impact Fellow. She was also named one of Fast Company’s “50 Designers Shaping the Future.” Prior to Equalize Health, she was an Economic Officer at the U.S. Department of State where she managed part of Iraq’s reconstruction portfolio. She also worked at KickStart International (Kenya), and the design firm IDEO (USA). Krista holds a master’s degree in Product Design and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Bon and Krista talk about what’s next in design for global health, designing for serviceability and putting the patient at the center of care.
Matthew Trowbridge is a physician, Chief Medical Officer at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine. Dr. Trowbridge’s academic research focuses on the impact of architecture, urban design, and transportation planning on individual and population health. Prior to joining IWBI, Dr. Trowbridge served as principal investigator for the Green Health Partnership between UVA and the U.S. Green Building Council; a multi-year initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focused on increasing consideration of health and well-being outcomes across global real estate by applying green building principles of market transformation. Notable accomplishments include development of the Health + Well-being Module in partnership with the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, and launch of the Integrative Process for Health Promotion Credit within the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building framework. Dr. Trowbridge is board certified in both general pediatrics and preventive medicine and obtained his medical and public health training at Emory University. Bon and Matt talk about how the built environment is a modifiable risk factor for health, public health experts as design thinkers, and why creativity will win over time.
Dr. Dori Tunstall joined Ontario College of Art & Design University in 2016, as Dean of Design. As part of the senior management team, she plays a vital role in steering aspects of the academic and administrative agendas within the Faculty of Design, as well as related research, outreach, fundraising and operational activities. As the university has initiated the challenge of decolonizing its institution, Dori advocates and communicates how Respectful Design serves the appropriate design ethos for this process. Dori is a design anthropologist, public intellectual, and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory, culture, and design. She leads the Cultures-Based Innovation Initiative focused on using old ways of knowing to drive innovation processes that directly benefit communities. With a global career, Dori served as Associate Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Dean at Swinburne University in Australia. She wrote the biweekly column Un-Design for The Conversation Australia. In the U.S., she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She organized the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative and served as a director of Design for Democracy. Industry positions included UX strategists for Sapient Corporation and Arc Worldwide. Dori holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College. Bon talks with Dori about her journey from anthropology to design, role of design in new technologies and how we can decolonize design.
After building her own DIY “artificial pancreas,” Dana Lewis helped found the open source artificial pancreas movement (known as “OpenAPS”), making safe and effective artificial pancreas technology available (sooner) for people with diabetes around the world. She authored the book, "Automated Insulin Delivery: How artificial pancreas “closed loop” systems can aid you in living with diabetes", to help more people understand automated insulin delivery systems, in addition to a series of children's books such as "Understanding Automated Insulin Delivery: A basic book for kids, family, and friends of people living with diabetes", which is also available as a free animated video. She is currently researching numerous diabetes-related data science and open source artificial pancreas system projects. Bon talks with Dana about why she designed an “artificial pancreas”, patients as the experts, and how we can reduce stigma among people living with chronic diseases.
Bon talks with the Dalberg Design team (Aika, Pragya, Joy and Mihret) about designers as global health storytellers, the need for creativity in global health and the challenges of social media misinformation. Aika Matemu is a Director at Dalberg Design in Nairobi, leading the design team in Africa. She brings over 15 years experience in user experience design, digital technologies, global public health and social entrepreneurism, with extensive experience in social impact and innovation. She has committed her career thus far to designing and building innovations that impact social change, movement and revolution. Her design career has been grounded in human-centered design methods with a focus on designing products and services that create channels for underserved populations to access quality health care. She's passionate about building design capacity on the African continent and elevating home grown designers to global design platforms. Pragya Mishra is Director at Dalberg Design based in Seattle. She applies her expertise in visual and strategy design on social innovation, financial inclusion and global health projects. She brings a human-centered approach to her work that facilitates in-depth understanding of distinct user behaviors, attitudes and preferences towards products, services, and systems leading to actionable insights. Her recent work includes the development of Design for health – a tailored set of design resources for global health practitioners. Prior to joining Dalberg Design, Pragya worked as an independent designer with NGOs and governmental organizations on a range of social innovation projects. Pragya has a Masters in Design in Social Innovation from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York and an undergraduate degree in Visual Communication Design from the National Institute of Design (NID) in India. Joy Kendi is a senior designer based in Dalberg Design's Nairobi studio. Her expertise is in product and service design, user experience and design research, with a focus on emerging markets. Prior to joining Dalberg Design, Joy led product design at a technology innovation hub in Kenya. Mihret Tamrat is a designer with Dalberg Design’s Nairobi studio. Her design background includes works in education technology, game design, as well as gender and youth employment across the US, Asia, and East Africa. Prior to Dalberg Design, Mihret worked as a strategy consultant with Dalberg Advisors in Addis Ababa.
Dr. Liao is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, where he is also the enterprise-wide Medical Director of Payment Strategy for UW Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and was a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Liao is a leading national expert in health care payment and delivery policy, generating seminal work on value-based payment models, leading large grant-funded projects, and providing expertise to national and state policymakers through a number of capacities, including service on the US Department of Health and Human Services' Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, as well as multiple state advisory groups for Washington state. He has published 200+ articles, including over 150 in peer-reviewed medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the British Medical Journal. His ideas and insights have also appeared in outlets such as the Washington Post, Forbes, the Boston Globe, NPR, the Seattle Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bon and Josh talk about behavioral architecture, redesigning the healthcare payment system and the jump from Jacobean drama to Medicine.
Pinar Guvenc is a partner of SOUR, an international, award-winning architecture and design studio with the mission to address social and urban problems through sustainable, adaptive and inclusive methodologies. In addition to managing the business operations, she also leads strategic planning, research and partnerships of the studio. Prior to SOUR, Pinar co-founded various ventures where she helped set-up company infrastructure and grow them through funding or incubation, achieving international recognition and awards. New York Functional Furniture – an e-commerce platform for functional furniture designed in NYC, was acquired by Lazzoni USA after its showroom opening in 2015 and Sponge Inc. - a clean-tech startup - won three international awards, and has been accepted to EU’s Climate KIC Accelerator in Netherlands and Plug and Play Incubator in California, USA. Pinar is also part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design, School of Design Strategies and serves on the Board of Directors of Open Style Lab, a nonprofit organization initiated at MIT, with the purpose of making style accessible to people of all abilities. She created and teaches a strategic collaborations workshop series for Pratt Center for Community Development and Made in NYC initiative. Pinar is a frequent public speaker and a guest lecturer, and hosts the panels and podcasts of What's Wrong With, a series of discussions with progress makers and experts to diagnose real problems, ideate solutions and raise awareness to the general public. Pinar has a BSc in Industrial Engineering and MSc in Economics & Finance. Bon and Pinar talk about why inclusive design is better design, diagnostic ideation, and the broadening definition of health.
Roshan Sethi is a screenwriter and is a radiation oncologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School where he began his screenwriting career. He co-created Fox's The Resident and has written for TV shows including Code Black and Black Box. Recently he wrote and directed 7 Days, a rom-com that was featured this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Bon and Sethi talk about the parallels between screenwriting and medicine, writing as an act of empathy, and the art of storytelling.
Dr. Monique Smith is the Founding Executive Director of Health DesignED: The Acute Care Design + Innovation Center at Emory University, an emergency physician at Grady Memorial Hospital and a thought leader on design thinking in healthcare. With expertise nationally and across the globe in service design and systems strengthening, Monique leverages design to reimagine the spectrum of acute care within a large health system from the moment patients experience symptoms to long after they walk out of the hospital’s sliding glass doors. Dr. Smith has appeared in the New York Times and CNN and currently serves as a health equity and COVID-19 advisor for Fortune 100 companies. Prior to joining Emory, she advised early stage companies on tech-enabled care for seniors, digital vaccines, and virtual care platforms. Globally, she has worked across five continents to deploy data and technology in expanding access to care, addressing supply chain challenges, and systematically tackling health inequity. Monique is an innovation leader passionate about cross market solutions that drive equitable tech enabled care. Bon and Monique chat about the importance of understanding people’s lived experiences, health equity, and approaching problems in healthcare through a design lens.
Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson is a pediatrician, mom to two boys, and the Chief Medical Officer for SpoonfulONE. She is an author, a prominent advocate of evidence-based medicine, and has devoted her career to pediatric prevention efforts. Dr. Swanson was the founder and Chief of Digital Innovation at Seattle Children’s Hospital and has continued to be an important thought leader online for over a decade. Bon and Wendy talk about how we can design our immune system by introducing diverse foods, using social media for public health and the role of creativity in medicine.
Daniel Burka is a product manager and designer who focuses on solving complex global health problems in simple ways. He is the director of product and design at the not-for-profit Resolve to Save Lives, where he spends the majority of my time on the open source project, Simple.org. Simple is used by thousands of hospitals in India, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia to manage over 950,000 patients with hypertension. In his prior life Daniel and his business partner Kevin Rose started an incubator company called Milk which we sold to Google a year later. He went on to become a design partner at Google Ventures for five years and worked with a huge variety of companies like Flatiron Health, Zipline, Farmers Business Network and Blue Bottle Coffee. In 2021, Daniel also started the open source Healthicons.org project to provide free icons to healthcare projects around the world. Bon and Daniel talk about reducing mortality in non-communicable diseases in India, the journey from Silicon Valley to Global Health and why everyone needs a design mindset.
Juhan Sonin specializes in healthcare design and system engineering. He is the director of GoInvo (goinvo.com). The studio’s designs helped 700,000 Massachusetts residents receive food benefits, are used by Wikipedia to explain complex health concepts, and help manage care plans for 150 million US residents. His work has been recognized by the New York Times, Newsweek, BBC International, Wired Magazine, and NPR and he's published in The Journal of Participatory Medicine and The Lancet. Juhan has spent time at Apple, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MITRE. He currently lectures on design and engineering at MIT. Juhan’s laser focus on healthcare and open source design has affected national efforts for the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF). His open source healthcare products have also been leveraged by Walgreens, Crossover Health, and Hallmark Clinics, to name a few. Next up in 2021 they are working to lead an open source, national push for patients owning their data. Bon and Juhan talk about open source healthcare, the need for a longitudinal health record for patients, and why Juhan shared his own genome publicly.
Inga Saffron has been the Philadelphia Inquirer’s architecture critic since 1999. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In June 2020, Rutgers University Press published a selection of her columns, "Becoming Philadelphia: How an old American city made itself new again." She is also the author of a cultural history of the sturgeon, "Caviar: The Strange and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy." Before becoming the Inquirer’s architecture critic, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Inquirer in Russia and the former Yugoslavia, where she covered the wars in Bosnia and Chechnya, and witnessed the destruction of Sarajevo and Grozny. Bon asks Inga about her journey in becoming an architecture critic, transforming public spaces through design and why diseases are the most powerful architects.
Dr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School (part-time), and Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health. As an obstetrician-gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Neel cares for patients at critical life moments that range from childbirth to primary care to surgery. As a scientist and social entrepreneur, he is a globally recognized expert in designing solutions that improve health care, and is listed among the "40 smartest people in health care" by the Becker's Hospital Review. His work to build equitable, trustworthy systems of care has been profiled by the New York Times, CNN, and other outlets, and is featured in a forthcoming documentary produced by Oprah Winfrey and Yance Ford. He has written more than 50 peer-reviewed academic papers and contributed to four books. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Neel founded Costs of Care, an NGO that curates insights from clinicians and patients to help delivery systems provide better care. In 2017, he co-founded the March for Moms Association, a coalition of more than 20 leading organizations, to increase public and private investment in the wellbeing of mothers. Neel serves on the national advisory board of the Office of Women's Health Research at the National Institutes of Health, and as founding director and senior advisor to the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne Labs. Bon and Neel talk about why so many women in the U.S. die in childbirth, affirming dignity in healthcare, and Neel’s mission on redesigning childbirth.
Kati Peditto, PhD is an environmental psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Air Force Academy. She received her PhD in Human Behavior and Design from Cornell University and completed postdoctoral training under Dr. Mardelle Shepley. Her research focuses on providing equitable health environments for adolescents and young adults, ranging from pediatric cancer facilities to college health centers. She is the recipient of the 2018 New Investigator Award from The Center for Health Design, and a 2018 AIA-AAH Tuttle Fellow in Health Facility Planning and Design. Bon and Kati talk about the psychology of indoor spaces, the function of healthcare spaces and the relationship between nature and healthcare outcomes.
Rama Gheerawo is the director of The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Rama is an international figure within design. He won a Design Week ‘Hall of Fame’ award in 2019 and was named a 2018 Creative Leader by Creative Review alongside Paul Smith and Björk. He uses design to address diversity through age, ability, gender and race. He is a serial innovator in the field of Inclusive Design and Design Thinking having led over 100 international projects with government, business, academia and the third sector with clients such as Samsung, Toyota, AgeUK and Panasonic. He champions inclusive and empathic approaches through his pathfinding work in Creative Leadership, having trained thousands of people including over 700 civil servants. Bon and Ramna talk about inclusive design, the magic of designers working in healthcare and how Indian classical music served as a training ground for a career in design.
Deborah Adler is a designer, inventor, and entrepreneur with a focus on health and beauty. Her studio, Adler Design, is guided by the belief that meaningful innovation requires a deep understanding of the people at the heart of their work, and the changing world that surrounds them. Adler is the inventor and lead designer behind Target’s ClearRx and CVS Health’s ScriptPath, both award-winning systems designed to help millions of people take and manage their medications. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Adler worked closely with Milton Glaser for five years as his senior designer, and has served on the AIGA National Board of Directors. Bon and Deborah talk about the legendary designer Milton Glaser, redesigning the pill bottle and how to design more confidence for patients and caregivers.
Richard Park, MD is a health care investor, entrepreneur and board certified emergency medicine physician. In 2010, He founded and led as CEO, CityMD, an urgent care practice with over 130 locations and 650 physicians in the Greater New York area. In 2019, CityMD merged with Summit Medical Group and expanded to over 200 locations and 1500 physicians in 70 medical and surgical specialties. He is co-founder with his business partner In Seon Hwang, of Ascend Capital Partners, a middle market growth private equity fund investing in healthcare service providers. Bon and Rich talk about starting one of the largest urgent care chains in the U.S., investing in vulnerable populations and how running a one-hour photo store helped Rich develop the skill set to be a healthcare entrepreneur.
Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and author. He went from being a beast-like college Quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school and nearly dying four more times battling Castleman disease. To try to save his own life, David spearheaded an innovative approach to research through the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and discovered a treatment that is saving his life and others. He described his journey and lessons learned in Chasing My Cure, which has been translated into five languages, named one of the “Best Non-Fiction Books of 2019,” and profiled by Good Morning America, CNN, and BBC News, among others. Now, he is leading the effort to find treatments for Castleman disease, COVID-19, and other diseases. One of the youngest individuals ever appointed to the faculty at Penn Medicine and the top 1 percent youngest grant awardees of a leading NIH grant (R01), David Fajgenbaum has been profiled in a cover story by The New York Times, recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and has received numerous awards. Bon and David talk about redesigning the current approach to pharmaceutical treatment of diseases, crowdsourcing in healthcare and why patients can’t wait for miracles.
Sara Auster is a sound therapist, meditation teacher and author. She has spent the past decade introducing sound baths to audiences and unique environments all across the globe. Sara’s transformative experiences and original teaching method have made her a leader in the sound bath movement, helping deep listening and sound meditation go mainstream. Her first book, SOUND BATH: Meditate, Heal and Connect through Listening, an unprecedented and comprehensive guide to sound baths, was published in November 2019, by Simon & Schuster.
Penina Acayo Laker is a graphic designer, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and creative practice explore how human-centered, research-driven design methodologies catalyze unique ideas to address complex societal challenges facing communities in St. Louis and Uganda. She has collaborated on an award-winning project that used simplified iconography to communicate ailments associated with the spread, prevention, and treatment of malaria in Kibera, Kenya. Penina earned an MFA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University and a BA in Art from Goshen College. As a component of her MFA thesis, she developed a secondary-level design curriculum that was inspired by the paucity of design education in Uganda. This subsequently inspired the creation of DesignEd Uganda workshops that Acayo Laker organizes and facilitates over the summer to equip young people with skills in design and creative problem-solving. Penina is also the faculty advisor for a new minor in Creative Practice for Social Change that exposes students to processes designers, artists and architects use to address systemic economic, environmental and social challenges. Bon and Penina discuss learning to design for the true needs of people, bringing design education to youth in Uganda and the value of design in healthcare.
Abbie Clary supports the growth and development of CannonDesign's global healthcare practice — focusing specifically on market differentiation, business growth and client engagement. Responsible for overseeing more than $2.5 billion in healthcare projects over the last 22 years, Abbie has become an expert at helping organizations rethink their strategies and facility investments to better respond to consumer expectations and achieve new levels of business success. Her passion lies in the realms of academic medicine and translational health sciences — helping institutions break down physical and cultural barriers to push innovation and medical breakthroughs forward. Abbie is all-in on design thinking, cognitive diversity, storytelling, compassion and doing the right thing. Passionate about women’s issues and equality in the profession, Abbie pursues opportunities to encourage diversity in all of its embodiments. Bon and Abbie talk about healthcare architecture, the impact of Covid-19 on the future design of hospitals and improving the patient experience through the built environment.
Liz Salmi is Senior Strategist of Dissemination for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In this role, Liz helps hospitals and health systems understand the changing nature of patient-clinician communication in the digital age, and interpret and implement research emerging from the “open notes” movement. After being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at age 29, Liz immediately put her digital communications skills to use by blogging, chronicling her daily symptoms, and seeing how much she could learn from her online patient portal. Today, her research areas of interest include studying how healthcare professionals and patients are connecting through digital tools and joining as partners in research. Liz leads the Brain Cancer Quality of Life Collaborative, a multi-stakeholder group dedicated to advancing science and improving the quality of life for people with malignant brain tumors. Liz was named e-Patient of the Year by the Society for Participatory Medicine.
Guidione Machava is an entrepreneur, designer and community builder. He has experience leading teams, coaching designers, and creating together products and services that positively impact people’s lives. He works across diverse industries and sectors, bringing early ideas and concepts to life for World Bank projects, scrappy startups and nonprofits in Africa. He is the author of “Design Sutra'', a collection of design principles for designers in the early stages of their careers and founded the World-class Designer School, the home of brightest design minds in Africa. He recently organized the World-class Designer Conference which included speakers such as Debbie Millman, Marty Cagan and designers from the largest companies in the world. In 2018, Google named him one of the best community builders in Africa. Bon and Guidione talk about creating the future of design in Africa, organizing a global design conference and life in Mozambique.
Katie McCurdy is a design consultant, autoimmune patient and founder of Pictal Health. After years of struggling to communicate about her own mysterious symptoms, Katie created a new way for people to tell their health stories visually, so they feel heard and understood as they work with their doctors to get the right diagnosis and treatment. She’s also spent a decade joyfully using visual communication and human-centered design to facilitate team collaboration and improve our healthcare experience. She lives, skis, hikes, and eats chocolate in Burlington, VT. Bon and Katie talk about designing visual health histories, why hospitals should hire designers and improving communication between patients and healthcare professionals.
Larry Chu, MD is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and Director of the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media (AIM) Lab. Dr. Chu is an NIH-funded clinical researcher and is Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X, the world's longest-running and most-discussed academic program on patient-centered emerging technology and medicine. He has written eight books, over 50 papers and over 50 book chapters in academic anesthesiology. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for The BMJ, one of the most influential general medical journals in the world. Bon and Larry talk about flattening hierarchies, creating safe spaces in healthcare, co-designing with patients and embracing curiosity in the culture of Medicine.
Mokena Makeka was raised in Maseru, Lesotho and New York. He is an accomplished architect, artist, curator, designer, global leader, scholar and urbanist. He is at the forefront of thinking on contemporary inclusive African Cities. Mokena studied architecture at the University of Cape Town and has executive leadership qualifications from the Harvard Kennedy School, Oxford University and Wits University. He is adjunct professor at Cooper Union, New York and at Carleton University, Canada. In 2015 he was a Young Global leader at the World Economic Forum and he is an Aspen Fellow in leadership. Currently Mokena is a Principal at Dalberg Advisors. He is also the founder of the House of Makeka, a premium lifestyle suite of design and product experiences. He has won international awards with his urban planning firm Makeka DesignLab/Works. Bon and Mokena talk about design as a human right, how hip hop culture informed Mokena’s architectural philosophy and understanding people through the environments they create.
Michael Ngigi is the co-studio Lead of ThinkPlace Kenya where he leads a team of designers drawn from over 8 different countries. He’s passionate about Africa and unlocking the potential of the continent through design thinking. Michael has traveled across Africa understanding the different cultures and connecting people with solutions to their challenges. Early in his career he acknowledged the power of supporting people to identify their own challenges and the magic of facilitating the process of solving these challenges on their own. Michael is a board member of Design for Health, a global initiative led by the United States Agency for International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and sits on the Technical Advisory Group of Living Labs, an initiative by PATH. Michael is also currently studying at the Harvard Business School Program for Leadership Development. Bon and Michael talk about his incredible journey from living on the streets of Nairobi to becoming a designer, incorporating design in public health projects and throwing our biases out the window.
Antionette D. Carroll is the founder and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit social enterprise designing healthy and racially equitable communities for Black and Latinx populations through education and training programs, community engagement consulting and open-sourced tools. Creative Reaction Lab is a movement challenging racial inequities in the education, media, health and healthcare, and government and public service sectors. Prior to CRXLAB, Carroll spent 10 years in the advertising and marketing industry. Antionette has held national leadership positions on diversity and inclusion at the AIGA and multiple non-profit organizations. Bon and Antionette talk about what it means to be a redesigner for justice, the relationship between health and equity, and her journey in design.
Ben Branson is the Founder of Seedlip and Æcorn Drinks, the world’s first distilled non-alcoholic spirits and aperitifs. His mission is two fold: Solve the dilemma of ‘what to drink when you’re not drinking’ and continue his family’s 300 years of farming heritage. With offices in the Chilterns, Los Angeles and Sydney, Seedlip is now available in 29 cities including New York, Barcelona, Shanghai & Singapore and served in many of the world’s most awarded bars, restaurants, hotels. Ben was named as one of the Top 50 most influential people in food and drink by The Telegraph and awarded Young Achiever of The Year by The Drinks Business. He continues to pioneer the non-alcoholic category forward with the launch of Æcorn Drinks in Selfridges and The Savoy in May 2019. Bon and Ben talk about tackling the public health challenge of excessive alcohol consumption, normalizing the choice not to drink alcohol and how peas can be turned into a delicious cocktail.
Katherine Darnstadt is the founder of Latent Design, a boutique architecture and urban design firm leveraging civic innovation and social impact to design more equitable spaces and systems. Since founding her practice in 2010, Katherine and her firm have prototyped new design systems to advance urban agriculture, support small business, create spaces for youth makers, advance building innovation and create public space frameworks. Concurrently, she is the founder of Boombox, Chicago's first micro retail popup in a shipping container. To date the program has supported over 150 small businesses and built new models of finance and policy to support micro retail in Chicago. In addition, she recently co-founded a community design nonprofit, Design Trust Chicago to address ongoing spatial and social injustices in the built environment. Bon and Katherine talk about the role of architecture in improving public health, repurposed buses acting as mobile produce markets and redefining public spaces.
Selected by Fast Company as a Master of Design and one of 50 Most Influential Designers, Kathleen Brandenburg is an internationally recognized founder, thought leader, educator and speaker on the global stage—from Delhi to Hong Kong to the Mayo Clinic. Named a “Creative Maverick,” Kathleen has devoted her career to elevating design as a strategic value for business, organizations, and society. An early pioneer and advocate of human-centered design, she was one of the first to link design, business strategy, and innovation when she co-founded IA Collaborative, the global design and innovation consultancy, in 2000. Today, Kathleen is leading the conversation to elevate design’s impact even further, championing it as the way to solve our world’s most urgent problems. A Harvard Visiting Professor of Design for Social Innovation, she is at the forefront of a movement to change the way healthcare understands and applies design, and is the author of Design for Health: The Beginning of a New Dialogue Between Design and Public Health. Kathleen and I talk about designing for behavior, how research is creative and bringing joy into healthcare.
Maggie Breslin is the director of The Patient Revolution, an action and advocacy movement for careful and kind care. She and her team work towards a vision of a healthcare future defined by unhurried conversations, seeing people in all their complexity, and care plans that make intellectual, emotional, and practical sense. Maggie has spent 15+ years as a designer and researcher in the healthcare space, including 7 years at the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation. She has done extensive work on the development and implementation of communication tools and programs that aim to foster conversations in exam rooms, hospital rooms, homes and public spaces about our lives and our health. She also teaches in the Design for Social Innovation program at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Victor M. Montori, MD is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic. An endocrinologist, health services researcher, and care activist, Victor is the author of more than 690 peer-reviewed publications and is among the most cited researchers in clinical medicine and in social science. He is a recognized expert in evidence-based medicine and shared decision making, and minimally disruptive medicine. He works in Rochester, Minnesota, at Mayo Clinic's KER Unit, to advance person-centered care for patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions. He is the author of the book Why We Revolt, and is leading a movement, a Patient Revolution, for careful and kind care for all. Bon talks with Maggie and Victor about the language of care, industrialized health care and why they started The Patient Revolution.
Cliff Kuang is a user-experience designer at Google and author of User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play, which was called a “tour de force” by the New York Times and was also named an Amazon Best Book of 2019. Previously, he was head of UX and product at Fast Company; the founder of Fast Company’s design site, Co.Design; and an editor at Wired. Under his leadership, Co.Design became an award-winning source of insight and inspiration for a generation of designers. Bon and Cliff talk about how Three Mile Island was the worst design fail in U.S. history, feedback loops and why most unsexy wicked problems actually demand the most talented designers.
Meet Rachael Dietkus. She’s a clinical social worker who has dedicated her career to trauma responsive practices in design. After a 10-year career working with social justice and human rights non-profits, she pursued a Master of Social Work and worked at Veterans Affairs across the patient advocacy, planning and construction, and housing and homelessness arenas. Since 2016, she has been working in higher education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Dean at the School of Social Work and the Associate Director of Programs at the new Siebel Center for Design. Bon and Rachael talk about how design and social work fit together, why designers should think more like social workers and about the journey of developing the field of trauma responsive design. You will also hear advice on how to respond to trauma that you may be experiencing during this pandemic.
Andrew M. Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Michigan and Chief Medical Officer at HOK, a global design and architecture firm. He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees education both with Honors at Case Western Reserve University with a year of coursework at University College London and The Bartlett School of Architecture. In addition to his health services research degree from the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, he completed additional policy training as a Crile Fellow at Princeton University and as a Doris Duke Fellow at John Hopkins Hospital. Andrew’s research at the interface of healthcare, policy evaluation and architecture has resulted in numerous publications, book chapters, international presentations. Bon and Andrew talk about health in all design, failures in medicine, and so much more.
Humans are an indoor species; we spend about 90% of our time inside buildings. What makes a building sick or a living room healthy? Explore the science of indoor spaces with Emily Anthes, the author of The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness. Emily and Bon talk about the design of modern hospitals, evidenced-based design and tips on creating healthier indoor spaces.
In this special holiday edition of Design Lab, Dr. Mike Natter (from Episode 3) joins us as our return guest! In this fun meandering conversation, our producer Rob Pugliese asks Bon and Mike about their holiday plans, TikTok, quarantine puppies, Jeopardy, reducing pandemic stress and so much more. Enjoy and happy holidays!
Miya Osaki and Tina Park solve wicked problems in health care through design. They are partners at NYC-based Diagram, a design studio that’s fully dedicated to the healthcare industry. In their spare time, Miya and Tina host “Ya, No”, an engaging podcast that explores new ideas in health care. In their work, they use role-playing, narrative storytelling and participatory design to improve the experiences for both patients and clinicians. Bon chats with Miya and Tina about how design can make healthcare more human-centered, the challenges of explaining the job of a designer to their Asian parents, and why all clinical teams need designers.
Meet Emily Silverman. She’s an academic hospitalist in San Francisco and the founder of The Nocturnists, an independent medical storytelling community. Stories are her design medium. Emily has created a platform that invites healthcare workers to open up and share their stories, the good and the bad. She creates space for real talk, to bring taboos out into the open and transform the culture of medicine. Bon and Emily talk about tips to become better storytellers, fiercely protecting time for creativity, and challenging the status quo in healthcare to make room for humanity.
Meet Lesley-Ann Noel. She's a Professor of Design and her research practice is guided by an emancipatory philosophy. Lesley introduces design to nontraditional audiences and has presented her work all over the world: Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica, Brazil, Germany, and France. Originally from Trinidad, she moved to Brazil to study Industrial Design and earned her PhD at North Carolina State University. Bon and Lesley talk about conducting design research during a pandemic, confronting biases through emancipatory design, and the challenges Lesley has faced being a black female designer.
BJ Miller, a palliative care physician, wants to redesign how we die. BJ is the co-author of A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, his TED talk has over 11 million views and he’s been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, Tim Ferris and Krista Tippet. Bon asks BJ about the role of design in reimagining the dying experience, helping people navigate illness during the pandemic through his new company Mettle Health, and why majoring in Art History has made him a better physician. Discover how you can live a fuller and more meaningful life by redefining your understanding of death.
Craig Wilkins is an architect, activist, artist, author and academic. His work focuses on the intersection of design and social justice. He is the creative director of the Wilkins Project and a lecturer in architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Craig, a leading scholar on African Americans in architecture, won the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2017. In this episode, Bon and Craig talk about hip hop architecture, urban acupuncture and spatial justice. Learn how the bad design of the environment and urban policies have negatively impacted the health of black communities in the U.S. and what can be done to change that.
Meet Giorgia Lupi. She’s an information designer and a partner at the global design studio Pentagram. Giorgia uses data as her materials for design — she is on a mission to make data more humane. The MOMA in NYC acquired her data visualization of soft power as one of its permanent collections and Fast Company named her one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018. Giorgia’s TED Talk on her humanistic approach to data has >1,000,000 views! Learn about Giorgia’s stunning data visualizations and why you should create your own personal data diary.
John is a legend in design. Although he currently defines himself as a technologist, John is also an artist, educator, graphic designer, computer scientist and engineer. He is internationally known for his talks, books and thought leadership on the intersection of technology and design. His diverse career spans from teaching at MIT Media Lab to being the president of the Rhode Island School of Design. John is the recipient of nearly every prestigious design award such as the AIGA Gold Medal and the White House’s National Design Award. His latest book, How to Speak Machine, was published in 2019. Bon and John talk about computational design, John shares some sage tips on creativity, and they both make way too many Star Wars references.
Food can be as powerful as medications in improving health outcomes. But most of us struggle to eat a healthy diet. Nicole Marquis is on a mission to make plant-based food accessible to everyone, even meat-obsessed humans like Bon. She is the founder and CEO of the plant-based fast casual restaurant HipCityVeg that has locations in Philadelphia and D.C. Listen to how Nicole’s vegan restaurants have helped Bon and others on their journey to eat healthier. Challenge your misconceptions about a plant-based diet and get inspired to redesign your pantry.
Meet George Aye. He uses human-centered design to advance equity and creates solutions that improve society. He is a co-founder and principal at the Chicago based Greater Good Studio. His work spans diverse sectors from criminal justice to healthcare. Listen to Bon and George talk about how “gut checks” can inform our everyday decisions, their Asian identities, George’s journey to becoming a designer and why Bon was ashamed of the smell of kimchi.
Meet Emily Pilloton. She’s a designer who has developed mastery of any power tool. Emily’s love of teaching through building led her to found the nonprofit Girls Garage, where girls are empowered to change the world around them by making. Using everything from drills to band saws, girls work together in a creative community unlike any other. In this episode, you will be inspired to use your own hands to shape the world around you.
Meet Mike Natter. He’s an artist turned doctor who uses comics, sketches and drawings to share his journey in Medicine. Mike is an Endocrinology Fellow in New York City where he finished his residency training treating patients with Covid-19. In his conversation with Bon, Mike shares how art helps him both as a doctor and a patient living with diabetes, embracing a creative mindset and being trolled on Instagram.
Are we hardwired for addictive behaviors? How can we quiet our brains? Do you need a mental health trainer? Dr. Harrison, a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, is going to help us answer these questions and shine light to those things that we push into the dark. She is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Eleanor Health and hosts the In Recovery Podcast. Bon and Dr. Harrison discuss the stigma around mental health, redesigning our lives for better brain health and Bon’s unhealthy addiction to surfing.
Meet Ellen Lupton, designer extraordinaire. Ellen has spent her career sharing the power of design beyond the design profession. She has written over 20 books on design, teaches graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art and is the senior curator at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Bon and Ellen discuss DIY design, why healthcare needs design and how each one of us can become more creative.