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Perk Pomeyie 'How bauxite mining destroys nature and communities'
Perk Pomeyie is a Ghanaian environmental activist from Accra, who is currently theNational Coordinator oftheGhana Youth Environmental Movement-a leadingyouth-ledenvironment and climate advocacy and campaign group in Ghana.Istarted by asking Perk to tell me more about how the youth movement works
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All the This is HCD episodes from all of our shows.
John Foley 'Creating a business case to be hired'
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In this episode I chat with John Foley, a service designer based in London working with Livework Studio.
Emma Carpenter 'Exploring the craft of Service Design within South Africa'
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I caught up with Emma Carpenter, Head of Design Experience and previously Group Director Fjord Johannesburg, Associate Director at Accenture Song
Rohan Walsh 'Making and breaking into UX & Service Design'
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The Getting Started in Design podcasts are created for people looking to break into Design.
Making & Doing at home with Alexa Mitchell
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In this episode I chat with one of the most naturally gifted people I know, Alexa Mitchell.
Amy Hupe ‘Design System Evolution’
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I caught up with Amy Hupe, a content designer and design system consultant based in the UK.
Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
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Dr Melvin Vopson is a truly fascinating character and deep thinker. A physicist, he is the proposer of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle, has identified a technological singularity called the Information Catastrophe and has discovered the second law of information dynamics.
Karel Vredenburg 'The evolution of Design at IBM plus the Future of Design education'
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I caught up with Karel Vredenburg, Karel is currently IBM Global Vice President, Client Insights and Research and responsible for leading the company’s global team of researchers and the insights they provide to product, services, and executive teams.
Sarah Kearns 'Life as a nurse in Ireland - A peek behind the curtain'
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In this episode you will hear the real life stories from Sarah of what life is and was life during the global pandemic, how hard these incredible people work. I wanted to shine a light on this area of society, where the work we do as system and service designers has an direct relationship often with life and death -
What role does education have in generating the next generation of problem solvers and lateral thinkers?
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What interested me most though these days, is what I learned in School, have nothing to do with what I studied in Uni, and what I studied in Uni, had nothing to do with what I do for a living. In fact, I think at this stage, I have had 3 or 4 careers and I have constantly iterated my way through life.
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Featured Hosts—
We are so proud of our amazing hosts at This is HCD. All of us are practicing change-makers.
Gerry Scullion
Gerry is the Founder of This is HCD and is based in Ireland.
Melanie Rayment
Melanie is Host of Moments of Change, and based in Australia.
Adrienne Tan
Adrienne is host of ProdPod and based in Australia.
Jay Hasbrouck
Jay is host of EthnoPod and based in the US.
Gerry McGovern
Gerry is host of World Wide Waste the podcast, and is based in Ireland.