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The Futures Archive is a podcast from Design Observer that looks at the history of human-centered design with a critical eye to its future.
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- May 25, 202326 min
Feed Drop: Design Observer x Mastercard
While The Futures Archive is between seasons, we wanted to share with you a recent conversation between TFA host Lee Moreau, Design Observer founder Jessica Helfand, Cindy Chastain leader of customer experience and design at Mastercard, and Ellen McGirt from Fortune. For three days in March, Design Observer and Mastercard leaders gathered with some sixty people—designers and scholars, social entrepreneurs and independent consultants, creative leaders and senior practitioners from across a ra...
- Jan 5, 202343 min
Feed Drop: Sketch Model
While The Futures Archive is between seasons, we wanted to share with you another show — Sketch Model from Olin College of Engineering and previous cohost Sara Hendren. Sketch Model is a limited series that delves into the engineering classroom and looks at how perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences shape the why and should questions about the technologies we build. On this episode, Sara talks to creative technologist Mimi Onuoha about teaching young designers—and ...
- Dec 1, 202243 min
Feed Drop: Design Future Now featuring Sloan Leo
While The Futures Archive is between seasons, we wanted to share with you another show, Design Future Now from AIGA. Design Future Now is podcast that asks: How is design changing as a discipline and profession, and how do we face these opportunities as a community? Host Lee-Sean Hung explores these questions and more with creative practitioners and leaders. On this episode is Sloan Leo, the Founder & CEO of FLOX Studio Inc. You can hear more from Sloan Leo on co-hosting on The Fu...
- Oct 20, 202249 min
Feed Drop: Scratching the Surface 174. Daniel Barber
While The Futures Archive is between seasons, we wanted to share with you another show, Scratching the Surface. Scratching the Surface is podcast about design, theory, and creative practice. Hosted by Jarrett Fuller, each episode features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with designers, architects, writers, academics, artists, and theorists about how design shapes culture. New episodes every other Wednesday. You can subscribe at https://scratchingthesurface.fm/index or wherever you get y...
- Sep 22, 202229 min
Feed Drop: The Design of Business | The Business of Design Perrin Drumm
While The Futures Archive is between seasons, we wanted to share with you another show from Design Observer's library, The Design of Business | The Business of Design. On this episode — Perrin Drumm is a writer, editor, and head of publishing at A24.
- Aug 18, 202246 min
S2E12: The Vibrator
On the final episode of season 2 of The Futures Archive, Rachel Lehrer and Lee Moreau explore pleasure with a conversation about the vibrator and women's control over their bodies. With additional insights from Lynn Comella, Ti Chang, Jenny Winfield, and Mireille Miller-Young.
- Aug 4, 202241 min
S2E11: The Microphone
How many microphones are in the room you are in? Did you count the ones in your earbuds? On your phone? Your smart device? On this episode of The Futures Archive Lee Moreau and Liz Danzico discuss the microphone as an embedded technology, and the power it commands from center stage to tucked away in a drawer. With additional insights from Susan Schmidt Horning, Jonathan Sterne, and Meryl Alper.
- Jul 21, 202240 min
S2E10: The Automatic Door
The automatic door is a part of most peoples everyday lives, and certainly considered a convenience. But when you walk up to one does it feel magical? Futuristic? Frustrating? On this episode of The Futures Archive, Lee Moreau and Sloan Leo discuss the automatic door, and how we can design thresholds of all kinds to be inviting to all people. With additional insights from Laurent Stalder, Bess Williamson, Wendy Ju, and David Gissen.
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