Podcasts by Design Lab with 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. On DESIGN LAB, Bon and his guests tell stories at the intersection of design, science, and humanity. Listen each week and learn new insights, hacks, and design principles that you can apply to your own life. ISSN 2833-2032
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EP 128: Designing the Future of Food | Dan Barber from 2023-07-20T04:00
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 advoca...
ListenEP 127: Designing Brand Strategy | Howard Belk from 2023-07-13T04:00
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, ...
ListenEP 126: Designing with Neurodivergent People | Katie Gaudion from 2023-07-06T04:00
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 ...
ListenEP 125: Designing Home-Based Care | Gregory Snyder from 2023-06-29T04:00
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 ...
ListenEP 124: Designing Nursing Care | Sarah DiGregorio from 2023-06-15T04:00
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...
ListenEP 123: Designing Oceans | Helen Czerski from 2023-06-08T04:00
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 Col...
ListenEP 122: Knock Knock, Hi with the Glaucomfleckens | Will and Kristin Flanary from 2023-06-01T04:00
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...
ListenEP 121: Designing for the Future | Manuel Lima from 2023-05-25T04:00
This week we talk about The New Designer: rejecting myths and embracing change. Manuel Lima is an internationally renowned designer and author of three bestsellers that have been translated into se...
ListenEP 120: Designing Self-Care | Pooja Lakshmin from 2023-05-18T04:00
This week we talk about designing real self-care versus faux self care. Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, MD is a psychiatrist and author, the founder of Gemma, the digital community focused on women’s mental he...
ListenEP 119: Designing Dementia Care | Sandeep Jauhar from 2023-05-11T04:00
This week, we are talking about designing better dementia care. Sandeep Jauhar has written several bestselling books, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. His latest book, "My Father’s Brai...
ListenEP 118: Designing Health Equity | Adriane Ackerman&Robert Fabricant from 2023-05-04T14:35
On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing for health equity. Adriane Ackerman is a community convener, strategic innovator and life-long rabble-rouser. She currently directs several ...
ListenEP 117: Designing Open-Source Medical Software | Maya Friedman&Kelly Watson from 2023-04-27T04:00
On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing open source medical software. Maya Friedman is a digital product design lead and art director who designs solutions for unmet needs in the ...
ListenEP 116: Designing Hope in American Medicine | Ricardo Nuila from 2023-04-20T04:00
On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing hope in American medicine. Dr. Ricardo Nuila works as an internal medicine doctor and hospitalist in his hometown of Houston. It’s hard for ...
ListenEP 115: Designing the Built World for our Bodies | Sara Hendren from 2023-04-06T04:00
In this episode, we talk about what a body can do and how we meet the built world. Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, professor at Olin College of Engineering, and the creator an...
ListenEP 114: Designing with Biology | Ritu Raman from 2023-03-30T04:00
On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing with biology. Dr. Ritu Raman is the d’Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her lab is centered on engineering adap...
ListenEP 113: Designing a Good Death | Sunita Puri from 2023-03-23T04:00
On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing a good death. Dr. Sunita Puri is the Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, ...
ListenEP 112: Designing Careful and Kind Care | Dominique Allwood from 2023-03-16T04:00
How can revolt against industrialized healthcare? Can we design careful and kind care? Dr. Dominique Allwood is a healthcare leader with almost 20 years of experience working as a medical doctor an...
ListenEP 111: Designing Sh*t | Saffron Cassaday from 2023-03-09T05:00
Today, we are going to take a deep dive into the promising therapy of fecal transplantation Saffron Cassaday directed her first documentary feature film called Cyber-Seniors in 2014. The film follo...
ListenEP 110: Designing for Behavior Change | Sherine Guirguis and Michael Coleman from 2023-03-02T05:00
Learn how behavioral designers are tackling the most complex health challenges on the planet. As a founder and lead strategist at Common Thread, Sherine Guirguis turns data into powerful narrative...
ListenEP 109: Designing Harm Reduction | Kimberly Sue from 2023-02-23T05:00
On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing harm reduction. Dr. Kimberly Sue is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Program in Addiction Medicine (Division of General Internal ...
ListenEP 108: Designing Through the Lens of Policy | Rick Griffith from 2023-02-16T05:00
On today's episode, we are going to talk about design through the lens of policy. Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian collagist, writer, letterpress printer, designer, and optimist futurist base...
ListenEP 107: Designing the Hospital at Home | Helen Ouyang from 2023-02-02T05:00
Can hospital care be delivered at home? Will the hospital of the future only consist of ERs, ORs and ICUs? Dr. Helen Ouyang is an emergency physician, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at C...
ListenEP 106: Designing Health Across Scales | Joanne Cheung from 2023-01-26T00:00
Health is not a luxury product. But why have our systems commodified health? How might we design health into our everyday lives? Joanne Cheung is an artist and designer. She formerly served as a Di...
ListenEP 105: Designing for Creativity in Medicine | Vidya Viswanathan from 2023-01-13T05:00
What role does creativity play in the field of medicine? Vidya Viswanathan is a writer and primary care pediatrician in Philadelphia. She founded Doctors Who Create, a community focused on medicine...
ListenEP 104: Designing the Future Healthcare Workforce | Norma Padrón from 2023-01-05T05:00
Did you know that the healthcare industry is the largest employer in the U.S.? Learn how an economist turned healthcare entrepreneur is redesigning how we train the workforce of tomorrow. Dr. Norm...
ListenEP 103: Designing Planetary Health | Chethan Sarabu from 2022-12-29T05:00
Did you know that the U.S. healthcare system is responsible for 10% of national greenhouse gas emissions? Learn how a pediatrician trained in landscape architecture is using clinical informatics an...
ListenEP 102: Designing the Stage for Better Health | Upali Nanda from 2022-12-22T05:00
Learn how an architect is setting the stage for better health by design, the relationship between neuroscience and architecture and design diagnostics. Dr. Upali Nanda is Global Practice Director ...
ListenEP 101: Designing the Immune System of Mental Health | Susan Swick from 2022-12-15T05:00
Learn about how Dr. Susan Swick is challenging the paradigm of mental health, redesigning the future of behavioral health facilities and why every community needs a gym for building our mental heal...
ListenEP 100: Clip Show Special from 2022-12-08T05:00
Thank you for supporting us through 100 episodes and getting us to 100,000 downloads! In this episode, Bon and Rob play back some of our favorite clips from early episodes and reminisce about all w...
ListenEP 99: Designing Caregiving | Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam from 2022-12-01T05:00
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 El...
ListenEP 98: Designing the Future of Patient Safety | Michael Wang from 2022-11-24T05:00
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 Emor...
ListenEP 97: Designing Nature Prescriptions | Melissa Lem from 2022-11-17T05:00
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 phy...
ListenEP 96: Designing the Long Life | Ayse Birsel from 2022-11-10T05:00
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 ...
ListenEP 95: Designing Environmental Health | Jennifer D. Roberts from 2022-11-03T04:00
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. R...
ListenEP 94: Designing for Disaster | Sheri Fink from 2022-10-27T04:00
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-wi...
ListenEP 93: Designing for Humanity | Platon from 2022-10-13T04:00
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 photograph...
ListenEP 92: Designing Pandemic Survival | David France from 2022-10-06T04:00
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 fi...
ListenEP 91: Designing for Complex Systems | Valerie Casey from 2022-09-29T04:00
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 digni...
ListenEP 90: Designing for Long Covid | Lekshmi Santhosh from 2022-09-22T04:00
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 spec...
ListenEP 89: Designing Intellectual Antibodies | Seema Yasmin from 2022-09-15T04:00
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, ...
ListenEP 88: Designing Relationships for Health | Julianne Holt-Lunstad from 2022-09-08T04:00
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 Ma...
ListenEP 87: Designing for Health in the Age of Anxiety | Timothy Caulfield from 2022-09-01T04:00
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 s...
ListenEP 85: Designing Curious Minds | Perry Zurn and Dani S. Basset from 2022-08-18T04:00
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 ...
ListenEP 84: Designing Healthcare through Stories | Jay Baruch from 2022-08-11T04:00
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 ...
ListenEP 83: Designing a Healthy Work Culture | Nina Bianchi from 2022-08-04T04:00
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...
ListenEP 82: Designing Creative Acts | Sarah Stein Greenberg from 2022-07-28T04:00
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 ...
ListenEP 81: Designing Against Burnout | Sudhakar Nuti from 2022-07-21T04:00
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 me...
ListenEP 80: Designing Wayfinding | Katie Osborn from 2022-07-14T04:00
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-centere...
ListenEP 79: Designing the Treatment of Pain | Haider Warraich from 2022-07-07T04:00
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...
ListenEP 78: Designing Health Technology | Subha Airan-Javia from 2022-06-30T12:12:20
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 ...
ListenEP 77: Designing Stories in Medicine | Alessandra Colaianni from 2022-06-23T04:00
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 nec...
ListenEp 76: Designing Smell | Nancy E. Rawson from 2022-06-16T04:00
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 th...
ListenEP 75: Designing Global Health | Tracy Johnson from 2022-06-09T04:00
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 Fo...
ListenEP 74: Designing the Future of Everything | Phnam Bagley from 2022-06-02T04:00
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 Franci...
ListenEP 73: Designing for Mars | Melodie Yashar from 2022-05-26T04:00
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. Collabor...
ListenEP 72: Designing on the Front Lines, Part 3 | Safer Spaces from 2022-05-12T01:57:48
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...
ListenEP 71: Designing Recovery Through Surfing | Thad Ziolkowski from 2022-05-04T18:14:14
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 ...
ListenEP 70: Designing Civic Tech | Sha Hwang from 2022-04-28T04:00
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-...
ListenEP 69: Designing a Covid-19 Vaccine for the World | Maria Elena Bottazzi from 2022-04-21T04:00
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...
ListenEP 68: Designing on the Front Lines, Part 2 | Deeper Breaths from 2022-04-14T04:00
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 ...
ListenEP 67: Designing Health into Everyday Life | Steve Downs&Thomas Goetz from 2022-04-07T12:00
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 civili...
ListenEP 66: Designing Products of the Future | Allan Chochinov from 2022-03-31T02:47:23
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 Visua...
ListenEP 65: Designing Strategic Innovation | Kevin Bethune from 2022-03-24T04:00
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 + ...
ListenEP 64: Designing for Fun | Catherine Price from 2022-03-17T04:00
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 Ne...
ListenEp 60: Designing Creative Responses to Epidemics | Ellen Lupton from 2022-02-17T05:00
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 ...
ListenEP 59: Designing Peer-to-Peer Health | Susannah Fox from 2022-02-10T05:00
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 h...
ListenEP 58: Designing Healthier Schools | Dina Sorensen from 2022-02-03T05:00
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 plan...
ListenEP 57: Designing for Scale | Doug Powell from 2022-01-27T05:00
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 desig...
ListenEP 56: Designing Cures Faster | Michelle Longmire from 2022-01-20T05:00
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 physici...
ListenEP 55: Designing for Labor and Delivery | Jules Sherman from 2022-01-13T12:24
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-creat...
ListenEP 54: Designing for Inclusivity | Grace Jun from 2022-01-06T05:00
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 practice...
ListenEP 54: Designing for Inclusivity | Grace Jun from 2022-01-06T05:00
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 practice...
ListenEP 53: Designing Beauty in Hospitals, Part 2 | Michael Murphy from 2021-12-30T05:00
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 MAS...
ListenEP 52: Designing Beauty in Hospitals, Part 1 | Michael Murphy from 2021-12-23T05:00
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 MAS...
ListenEP 51: Designing Medical Technology for Everyone I Krista Donaldson from 2021-12-16T05:00
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 childre...
ListenEP 50: Designing Healthier Places at Scale | Matthew Trowbridge from 2021-12-02T15:14:07
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. Tro...
ListenEP 49: Designing Decolonization | Dori Tunstall from 2021-11-24T16:24
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...
ListenEP 48: Designing a DIY Artificial Pancreas | Dana Lewis from 2021-11-18T05:00
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...
ListenEP 47: Designing Vaccine Equity | Aika Matemu and Pragya Mishra from 2021-11-12T18:43:21
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 misi...
ListenEP 46: Designing Healthcare Payment Equity | Josh Liao from 2021-11-03T04:00
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 Strate...
ListenEP 45: Designing for Inclusivity | Pinar Guvenc from 2021-10-15T04:00
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 m...
ListenEP 44: Designing Stories as a Physician and Screenwriter | Roshan Sethi from 2021-10-07T04:00
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 screenwri...
ListenEP 43: Designing Acute Care | Monique Smith from 2021-09-24T04:00
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 thoug...
ListenEP 42: Designing Your Immune System | Wendy Sue Swanson from 2021-09-16T04:00
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 caree...
ListenEP 41: Designing Solutions in Global Health | Daniel Burka from 2021-09-09T04:00
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 L...
ListenEP 40: Designing Open Source Healthcare | Juhan Sonin from 2021-08-26T04:00
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, ar...
ListenEP 39: Designing Cities | Inga Saffron from 2021-08-12T04:00
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 Fello...
ListenEP 38: Designing Childbirth | Neel Shah from 2021-07-29T04:00
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 vir...
ListenEP 37: Designing Equitable Health Environments | Kati Peditto from 2021-07-22T04:00
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 Behav...
ListenEP 36: Designing to Improve Life for People | Rama Gheerawo from 2021-06-24T04:00
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 i...
ListenEP 35: Designing for Patients and Caregivers | Deborah Adler from 2021-06-10T04:00
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...
ListenEP 34: Designing Urgent Care | Richard Park from 2021-05-27T04:00
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 locatio...
ListenEP 33: Designing Cures | David Fajgenbaum from 2021-05-13T04:00
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 s...
ListenEP 32: Designing Sound Baths | Sara Auster from 2021-05-06T04:00
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 transformati...
ListenEP 31: Designing for Social Change | Penina Acayo Laker from 2021-04-29T04:00
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-cen...
ListenEP 30: Designing Healthcare Spaces | Abbie Clary from 2021-04-23T04:00
Abbie Clary supports the growth and development of CannonDesign's global healthcare practice — focusing specifically on market differentiation, business growth and client engagement. Responsible fo...
ListenEp 29: Designing Transparency in Healthcare | Liz Salmi from 2021-04-15T04:00
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...
ListenEP 28: Creating Future Designers in Africa | Guidione Machava from 2021-04-08T04:00
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...
ListenEP 27: Designing Patient Health Stories | Katie McCurdy from 2021-04-01T04:00
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...
ListenEP 26: Designing Relationships in Healthcare | Larry Chu from 2021-03-25T04:00
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...
ListenEP 25: Design as a Human Right | Mokena Makeka from 2021-03-18T04:00
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 cont...
ListenEP 24: Designing for Global Health | Michael Ngigi from 2021-03-11T05:10:10
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 con...
ListenEP 23: Designing for Justice | Antionette Carroll from 2021-03-04T05:00
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 ed...
ListenEP 21: Designing Equitable Places | Katherine Darnstadt from 2021-02-18T05:00
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 f...
ListenEP 20: Designing Behavior | Kathleen Brandenburg from 2021-02-11T05:00
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 g...
ListenEP 19: Designing a Patient Revolution | Maggie Breslin and Victor Montori from 2021-01-28T05:00
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 unhurri...
ListenEP 18: Designing a User Friendly World | Cliff Kuang from 2021-01-21T05:00
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 t...
ListenEP 16: Health in All Design | Andrew Ibrahim from 2021-01-08T03:49:34
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 compl...
ListenEP 15: Designing the Great Indoors | Emily Anthes from 2020-12-31T05:00
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 autho...
ListenEP 14: Jam Session featuring Mike Natter from 2020-12-22T05:00
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 ...
ListenEP 13: The Practice of Design in Health Care | MIYA OSAKI & TINA PARK from 2020-12-10T05:00
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 spa...
ListenEP 12: Designing through Storytelling | Emily Silverman from 2020-12-03T05:00
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 crea...
ListenEP 11: Emancipatory Design | Lesley-Ann Noel from 2020-11-26T05:00
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 ...
ListenEP 11: Emancipatory Design | Lesley-Ann Noel from 2020-11-26T05:00
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 ...
ListenEP 9: Spatial Justice | Craig Wilkins from 2020-11-12T05:00
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 lec...
ListenEP 8: Designing with Data | Giorgia Lupi from 2020-10-29T04:00
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. T...
ListenEP 7: Technology and Design | John Maeda from 2020-10-22T04:57:42
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...
ListenEP 6: Food as Medicine | Nicole Marquis from 2020-10-15T04:00
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, e...
ListenEP 5: Designing for Equity | George Aye from 2020-10-07T03:40:12
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 span...
ListenEP 4: The Power of Making | Emily Pilloton from 2020-09-24T12:26:07
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 t...
ListenEP 3: Art, Storytelling & Medicine | Mike Natter from 2020-09-17T05:03:25
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 reside...
ListenEP 2: Designing for Mental Health | Nzinga Harrison from 2020-09-10T05:48
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 answe...
ListenEP 2: Designing for Mental Health | Nzinga Harrison from 2020-09-10T05:48
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 answe...
ListenEP 2: Designing for Mental Health | Nzinga Harrison from 2020-09-10T05:48
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 answe...
ListenEP 1: Sharing the Power of Design | Ellen Lupton from 2020-09-03T04:00
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 t...
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