Pinar Guvenc ‘Understanding Architecture’s role in designing inclusive spaces’
Today on the show, is Pinar Guvenc, Partner at SOUR, an architectural and design firm based in Brooklyn, New York
Summer Howarth ‘Co-designing a new architecture of learning’
Welcome to a new episode of Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment.
Dr Jane Hession & Ronan Healy ‘The Power of Play’
We speak about how they are using Lego Serious Play to help enable bigger and more meaningful conversations for their clients.
Kelly Ann McKercher ‘Doing co-design for real’
In this episode of Moments of Change, Melanie Rayment speaks with the wonderful Kelly Ann McKercher.
Jared Spool ‘We will run out of things. We will run out of time.’
Climate change is not seen by most as an immediate crisis, so we don’t act with urgency. The digital world is fairly blind to what needs to be done because in digital design we don’t think deep, broad and wide...
Aral Balkan ‘Unpacking design’s role in surveillance capitalism (and beyond)’
Today on the show, we have Aral Balkan - a cyborg rights activist, who is on a mission to spread the word about surveillance capitalism.
Vimla Appadoo ‘Diving Deep into the world of Culture Design’
In this episode, I had a really enjoyable conversation with the wonderful Vimla Appadoo, Co-Founder and Chief Cultural Officer for Honey Badger.
Bas Raijmakers ‘How do we take a global perspective on HCD while respecting local differences’
Today on the show, is Bas Raijmakers, co-founder and creative director of Standby, a specialist design research organisation for service innovation, based in London and Amsterdam.
Chris Coyier ‘Easy to design, hard to use’
Chris Coyier talks to Gerry McGovern about how many of the tools and resources out there make it easy for developers and designers to create bloated, heavy, energy-sapping digital designs. Chris says we need new thinking and new tools that...
Dr Joanna Choukeir ‘Leading place-based design for health and wellbeing’
In this episode of Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment, Melanie speaks with the new Director of Design and Innovation at theRSA.org (Royal Society of Arts) about her experience in leading Design to enable positive outcomes for people.
Rafa Sardina ’15-Grammy Award Winner Producer; How technology has affected the songwriting process and creation of music, and what Design can learn from it’
In this episode, I connect with a former producer of mine, that I was lucky enough to work with way back in 2006-2008, Rafa Sardina. 60-time Grammy-nominated, 15-time winner. With a client list that looks like the most celebrated artists...
Geke Van Dijk ‘Design Research for meaningful change’
Today on the show, is Geke Van Dijk, co-founder and strategy director of https://www.stby.eu/ in Amsterdam and London and is Chair of the Dutch Chapter of the Service Design Network and also Co-Founder of The Reach Network a network of...
Bulelani Mfaco ‘Surviving on the margins of society’
In this episode, I speak with Buelani Mfaco, an South African asylum seeker and activist based in Ireland - he’s a spokesperson for MASI, the movement of asylum seekers in Ireland and is an active voice in shedding light from...
The Big Remote – Jeroen Spoelstra
In this episode Jeroen Spoelstra talks to Andy about his and his partner's decision to relocate to a small pueblo in the Spanish Pyrénées and set up Unbeaten Studio and to be a mountain bike guide, and what lockdown meant...
Tutti Taygerly ‘Design Leadership’
In this episode Tutti Taygerly describes her own journey from an eclectic education to design leadership at Facebook and now design leadership coaching that forms the core of her work.
Erika Hall ‘Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience’
In this episode, Gerry McGovern speaks with Erika Hall from Mule Design. Gerry discusses with Erika if we've ruined web design, and if we have, what do we do about it?