Spacecraft — The Workplace Design Podcast

Daniel Moscrop
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Spacecraft — The Workplace Design Podcast

The Spacecraft Podcast series reviews and examines how well-designed workspaces can be transformative, not just for day-to-day working, but for businesses as a whole. Dan Moscrop, Founder and CEO of Them Design speaks with leading businesses to see how design has impacted their workspaces. We interview the directors of co-working organisations that are leading the charge on how office spaces should be created, and the architects behind some of the most innovative office environments you'll see.

  1. Rachel Edwards — Designing for seven generations

    09/07/2023

    Rachel Edwards — Designing for seven generations

    Rachel Edward is Workplace Futures Lead at Lendlease, and if you're involved in workplace in London you'd be pushed to not be aware of her work. She's Rachel has been involved in a number of pioneering projects working on workplaces globally applying evidence-based design thinking. Rachel is all about how people use the places that we build. She is passionate about building sustainable workplace communities, with a focus on how the design of places can make a difference — to society, to ...

    41 min
  2. Collin Burry — Design is about getting your hands dirty and diving head first into the learning process

    08/10/2023

    Collin Burry — Design is about getting your hands dirty and diving head first into the learning process

    Collin Burry has been with Gensler for nearly 27 years and is as passionate about design as the day he started, which comes across really well in our interview.Collin has built his career and standing by delivering the kind of projects many of us would give a right arm to be involved with (Apple, Pixar, Nike, Samsung, E. & J. Gallo Winery, Nokia... the list is endless) winning over 85 design awards for his work.Normally for a bio I cobble together bits I find on Linkedin and other sites, ...

    41 min
  3. Ivana Stanisic — How the blurring of the lines between live, work and play is improving our communities

    07/27/2023

    Ivana Stanisic — How the blurring of the lines between live, work and play is improving our communities

    Ivana Stanisic wowed me a while ago in a talk she did for PlaceLabs, the them was 'Belonging' her key message was the necessity of valuing personal agency. Ivana’s talk portrayed her belief of how a sense of agency is not only important to people on an immediate, individual level, but how it’s key to the longevity and success of buildings and communities. “We have these joyful places which are socially and visually a mess.” Ivana went on to explain, “That’s why people go there, not because it...

    42 min
  4. Ben Channon — We need to design happiness into our spaces

    07/14/2023

    Ben Channon — We need to design happiness into our spaces

    I read Happiness by Design by Ben Channon during Covid, packed with sensible suggestions, and a checklist of how our homes should function — after the success of the book, Ben expanded on the concept into a Happiness by Design Toolkit, his most recent book, which looks at a much broader field of architecture and design including workplace. As an architect, author, TEDx speaker and mental wellbeing advocate, he is well known in the industry as a thought leader in designing for happiness a...

    44 min
  5. Chris Coleman-Brown — Places need to work for people

    06/29/2023

    Chris Coleman-Brown — Places need to work for people

    After a unique route into real estate; Chris worked in managing agent and client-side roles on many of the most exciting developments of the last 20 years. With a focus on putting customer experience and unifying place narrative at the centre of asset strategy; he's long banged the drum for how places need to work for people, in order to realise relevant and authentic experiences and outperform business plan objectives.Collaboration led to the creation of Cureoscity — a prop tech that pr...

    46 min
  6. Rosanna Vitiello — How could shifts in organisation, knowledge, and ownership impact the places we play, work, and call home?

    06/15/2023

    Rosanna Vitiello — How could shifts in organisation, knowledge, and ownership impact the places we play, work, and call home?

    I'm know Rosanna through the PlaceLabs event we founded together (soon to be rebooted, might I add!) and can comfortably say she's one of the smartest, most engaging and creatively curious people I know. — and I know a lot of smart, engaging, creatively curious people. From the Place Bureau website:"Rosanna Vitiello creates places with purpose. Guiding deep research into places and destinations she reveals their cultural potential and distinctiveness. With close to 20 years international...

    49 min
  7. Nick Gaskell — How to build communities from scratch

    06/01/2023

    Nick Gaskell — How to build communities from scratch

    Nick explores his interest in progressive, diverse spaces for working and learning. He has a passion for promoting technology to innovate in how we create modern workplaces. In our podcast he share some of the secrets to Hawkins\Brown's unique approach to design.Super passionate (and speaking at the speed of sound), Nick leads teams delivering award-winning designs in the workspace sector. He shares here his deep understanding of workspace client needs and future aspirations, enabling thought...

    46 min
  8. Will Sandy — Creating sustainable projects to build a new social capital

    05/18/2023

    Will Sandy — Creating sustainable projects to build a new social capital

    I find talking to Will is always inspiring, and though he's from a different sector I love his approach to work and passion for self initiated socially beneficial projects. Though he's a Landscape Architect by trade I find it hard to 'put him in a box', to me he's more and inventor / creator."Will joins the dots between architecture, art, the environment and imagination, adopting an innovative approach to the standard design process. He works across various sites, scales & styles, from fu...

    43 min
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The Spacecraft Podcast series reviews and examines how well-designed workspaces can be transformative, not just for day-to-day working, but for businesses as a whole. Dan Moscrop, Founder and CEO of Them Design speaks with leading businesses to see how design has impacted their workspaces. We interview the directors of co-working organisations that are leading the charge on how office spaces should be created, and the architects behind some of the most innovative office environments you'll see.

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