36 min
Better Health and Well Being through Urban Design with Kathryn Firth, Partner FPdesign The Future Car: A Siemens Podcast
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The moment you hop on the bus, the subway, or crawl into the back seat of an Uber you probably pull out your phone as it feels like a good time to catch up on emails or scroll through the news. But defaulting to your phone might be depriving you of good conversation or the chance to really observe your surroundings. Social interactions make us happier and are important for our health and well-being. Shutting off our minds and phones for a few minutes to look out the window and better understand our own neighborhoods is important for our health and well-being. While urban design hasn’t always prioritized the social pedestrian experience, it’s something that might be on the cusp of change.
In the second episode of the Women Driving the Future series, Ed Bernardon interviews Kathryn Firth, Partner at FPdesign and formerly Director of Urban Design at NBBJ Design when the podcast was recorded. Voted the most innovative architectural design firm in 2018 by Fast Company, they specialize in helping clients drive innovation by creating highly productive, sustainable spaces for people to live, learn, work, and play. Today, we’ll learn how urban design is being disrupted to create more pedestrian-friendly environments, what those environments might look like, and how they help to promote social interaction. Ultimately, these changes can make our cities friendlier, more efficient, and more sustainable.
Some Questions I Ask:
Are there other goals beyond getting rid of the car? (8:40)
How do you figure out the optimal combination of real estate for cars and pedestrians? (11:25)
How do you get people to give up their cars? (13:44)
How do you accommodate this mixing and matching of the various transportation structures? (16:54)
What are the advantages of simultaneous design for vehicles and pedestrians? (19:54)
How can we redesign vehicles, so that they're more efficient, more enjoyable? (25:01)
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
What has earned them so much international recognition for innovation (2:52)
Why prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists makes better cities (5:16)
Why the efficiency of public transportation is the key to pedestrian-friendly areas (14:04)
How intentional human-centered design is good for company culture (21:00)
Why creating positive catalysts for socialization on public transportation can enhance the experience and decrease stress (24:00)
Why underground transportation misses a valuable opportunity (26:44)
How the “last mile” factors in to transportation decision making (33:11)
Connect with Kathryn Firth:
LinkedIn
FPdesign
Connect with Ed Bernardon:
LinkedIn
Future Car: Driving a Lifestyle Revolution
Motorsports is speeding the way to safer urban mobility
Siemens Digital Industries Software
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The moment you hop on the bus, the subway, or crawl into the back seat of an Uber you probably pull out your phone as it feels like a good time to catch up on emails or scroll through the news. But defaulting to your phone might be depriving you of good conversation or the chance to really observe your surroundings. Social interactions make us happier and are important for our health and well-being. Shutting off our minds and phones for a few minutes to look out the window and better understand our own neighborhoods is important for our health and well-being. While urban design hasn’t always prioritized the social pedestrian experience, it’s something that might be on the cusp of change.
In the second episode of the Women Driving the Future series, Ed Bernardon interviews Kathryn Firth, Partner at FPdesign and formerly Director of Urban Design at NBBJ Design when the podcast was recorded. Voted the most innovative architectural design firm in 2018 by Fast Company, they specialize in helping clients drive innovation by creating highly productive, sustainable spaces for people to live, learn, work, and play. Today, we’ll learn how urban design is being disrupted to create more pedestrian-friendly environments, what those environments might look like, and how they help to promote social interaction. Ultimately, these changes can make our cities friendlier, more efficient, and more sustainable.
Some Questions I Ask:
Are there other goals beyond getting rid of the car? (8:40)
How do you figure out the optimal combination of real estate for cars and pedestrians? (11:25)
How do you get people to give up their cars? (13:44)
How do you accommodate this mixing and matching of the various transportation structures? (16:54)
What are the advantages of simultaneous design for vehicles and pedestrians? (19:54)
How can we redesign vehicles, so that they're more efficient, more enjoyable? (25:01)
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
What has earned them so much international recognition for innovation (2:52)
Why prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists makes better cities (5:16)
Why the efficiency of public transportation is the key to pedestrian-friendly areas (14:04)
How intentional human-centered design is good for company culture (21:00)
Why creating positive catalysts for socialization on public transportation can enhance the experience and decrease stress (24:00)
Why underground transportation misses a valuable opportunity (26:44)
How the “last mile” factors in to transportation decision making (33:11)
Connect with Kathryn Firth:
LinkedIn
FPdesign
Connect with Ed Bernardon:
LinkedIn
Future Car: Driving a Lifestyle Revolution
Motorsports is speeding the way to safer urban mobility
Siemens Digital Industries Software
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
36 min