Ep. 188: Afrotectopia’s Ari Melenciano on Synthesizing, Art, Tech, Epigenetics, and more [rebroadcast]
Artist and technologist, Ari Melenciano, spent her youth obsessed with music, art, and gadgets. A year in Barcelona, a city that valued art as she did...
Ep. 191: Rodolfo Agrella Uses Laughter as a Powerful Design Tool [rebroadcast]
Multidisciplinary designer, Rodolfo Agrella, grew up in Venezuela with a happy place at a kid-sized table. A self-described weirdo and excellent dance...
Ep. 211: The Soulful Renovations of House of Rolison [rebroadcast]
Co-founders of House of Rolison, Amanda Leigh and Taylor Hahn, grew up on opposite coasts but were both self-described angsty teens. Both had a deep l...
Ep. 160: Peeking into the Creative World of Pop-Polymath Willo Perron [rebroadcast]
Live experience & interior designer Willo Perron grew up in Montreal surrounded by creativity. An industrious kid, he dropped out of high school at 14...
Ep. 97: Cognitive Neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef [rebroadcast]
Cognitive neuroscientist Sahar Yousef grew up in the Bay Area, the daughter of Iranian immigrants. She became fascinated by human consciousness at a y...
Ep. 218: The Exquisite Love, Magic and Maximalism of Londubh Studio [rebroadcast]
Custom surface artists Lisa Donohoe and Brynn Gelbard met and fell in love in the queer underbelly scene of San Francisco in 2002, a time before bi-na...
Ep. 224: Charlotte McCurdy is Charting the Path to a Very Desirable Bio-Based Future
Charlotte McCurdy is a designer, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of climate change, futures, and materials. She shares how her wo...
Ep. 223: Dan Heath's "Unnatural" Curiosity Provides a Feast of Revelatory Insights
Dan Heath, author (or co-author) of bestselling books like Made to Stick and most recently, Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working, and host of the p...
Ep. 122: Design Advocate Jessie McGuire [rebroadcast]
Branding & design strategist Jessie McGuire was born in El Salvador and adopted by a “wholehearted feminist” single mother. She grew up exploring her ...
Ep. 215: Kinfolk’s Idris Brewster Uses AR to Empower Collective Memory Building [rebroadcast]
Artist, creative technologist, and educator, Idris Brewster grew up in Brooklyn, being filmed for a documentary about his education as a black student...