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What’s Wrong With (www/) is a diagnostic discussion series created by SOUR - an architecture and design studio.

We interview progress makers, boundary pushers and creative leaders to diagnose and discuss the problems in various fields, with the goal of creating a research base for potential sustainable solutions applicable today and tomorrow.

What's Wrong With: The Podcast SOUR

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What’s Wrong With (www/) is a diagnostic discussion series created by SOUR - an architecture and design studio.

We interview progress makers, boundary pushers and creative leaders to diagnose and discuss the problems in various fields, with the goal of creating a research base for potential sustainable solutions applicable today and tomorrow.

    Navigating the Complex through Coalition and Consensus Ft. Michael Braun & Eldad Gothelf from Kasirer

    Navigating the Complex through Coalition and Consensus Ft. Michael Braun & Eldad Gothelf from Kasirer

    Today on the podcast, Michael Braun and Eldad Gothelf from Kasirer - a New York City based firm driven by strategists, problem solvers, and expert navigators of complicated systems, and complicated solutions. Kasirer builds coalitions and consensus to win support for their clients—across industries, interests, approvals, and all levels of government.

    Our first guest is Eldad Gothelf, Kasirer’s Senior Vice President of Real Estate. Eldad works with all of the firm’s real estate clients, guiding them through the policy and political challenges of development in New York City. He is an urban planner with a deep knowledge of zoning and development in New York City. Eldad also served for eight years as an Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University’s GSAPP, where he taught classes focusing on land use Approvals, zoning, and housing policy, along with leading several planning studios.

    Joining Eldad is Mike Braun, who directs Kasirer’s business development efforts, advises the firm’s principals on key operational activities, leads the firm’s communications, facilitates firmwide coordination, and supports recruitment, management, and professional development. Mike is also heavily involved in civic and charity work. He started his own local organization called Astoria Young Professionals, which hosts social, philanthropic and community events for the young professional network in the neighborhood. Mike was recognized on City & State’s Queens Power 100 list and received numerous awards in the built environment industry.

    • 44 min
    The Non-binary Future ft. Sloan Leo

    The Non-binary Future ft. Sloan Leo

    Today in the episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are excited to be talking with design theorist, facilitator, and practitioner: Sloan Leo!

    Leo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FLOX Studio, a community design and strategy studio that supports mission-driven organizations to animate the practice of their values. Using facilitation, FLOX Studio engages innovative social impact leaders to collaboratively design their culture, strategy, and organizational development efforts. Rooted in black feminist theory, Afrofuturism, and social justice, FLOX is on a mission to improve the embodied experience of social impact workers and the institutional communities they comprise.

    Appointed the inaugural Designer-in-Residence at the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation Master’s program, Leo has over 15 years of experience with social impact management and community design.

    • 44 min
    Urban Design Amidst Complexities ft. Joseph Heathcott

    Urban Design Amidst Complexities ft. Joseph Heathcott

    Today on the podcast, Joseph Heathcott grew up in the Industrial Midwest, and has worked as a dish washer, fry cook, roofer, carpenter, lumber yard grunt, and community organizer. He also has a background as a photographer and radio announcer and producer. These days he is the Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School, exploring cities within a global, comparative perspective.

    Much of Joseph’s work over the past decade has been to connect humanities and social sciences with practice fields such as architecture, planning, policy, and urban design. He is the author of Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic, which just came out, and with Angela Dietz he wrote Capturing the City: Photographs from Streets of St. Louis.

    In addition to his scholarship, Joseph is a practicing curator and artist, and has exhibited his work at the Museum of the City of New York, the Queens Museum, MIT Galleries, Town Hall Galleries in Stuttgart, and the Museo Banco de México in Mexico City. He has also held numerous visiting positions, including: the U.S. Fulbright Distinguished Chair for the United Kingdom; Senior Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics; the Mellon Distinguished Fellowship in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities at Princeton University School of Architecture; Senior Visiting Scholar at L'École Urbanine, Sciences Po; and Distinguished Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative, CUNY Graduate Center.

    Heathcott is past President of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, and currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association.

    • 54 min
    Changing the Game in Advertising ft. Jolyon White

    Changing the Game in Advertising ft. Jolyon White

    Our guest today on this podcast episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast is Jolyon White, the founder and Creative Director of 10 Days - the agency shaking up the ad industry. He is a former employee at Wieden+Kennedy, Mother, and Channel 4.

    Jolyon famously created the multi-award winning Paralympics campaign - 'Yes I can' for Channel 4 amongst lots of exciting work for Nike, Bumble, MoneySupermarket and Lurpak. Jolyon is also an award-winning film director, and now runs his own creative advertising agency called 10Days, together with his two other brothers from London.

    • 48 min
    Affordable Housing in NYC ft. Dan Dickson

    Affordable Housing in NYC ft. Dan Dickson

    Today on What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we have the honor to speak with Dan Dickson!

    Dan Dickson is an urban planner and architect who is interested in how to solve intractable problems rooted in the built environment. He has spent much of his career working in architecture firms on planning and design work ranging in scale from the building to the region, exploring equity issues relating to transportation access, criminal justice, education, and housing affordability. Dan has also worked for NYC’s Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), where he facilitated the funding, construction and maintenance of affordable housing in support of the City’s Housing New York plan.

    Currently, Dan’s role as Director of Planning and Design at the Battery Park City Authority has allowed him to participate in leveraging public funds to create a more sustainable and resilient New York City with an emphasis on the public realm.

    • 41 min
    Civic Engagement Through Arts & Design ft.  Pilar Finuccio

    Civic Engagement Through Arts & Design ft.  Pilar Finuccio

    Today in our episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are happy to welcome Pilar Finuccio!

    Pilar (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). She was born to a big Cuban family in Miami, where her community design practice began at O, Miami Poetry Festival, designing projects imagined by people throughout Miami Dade County to be created every April during National Poetry month. She studied social design at the School of Visual Arts and previously worked at the Department of Small Business Services and Public Policy Lab. She has a personal bookmaking practice, gives presentations about mangos to anyone who will listen, and loves to talk about CUP's work. She's excited to talk to anyone with a passion and curiosity for the role of design in creating and sustaining more equitable cities and communities.

    • 50 min

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Enlightening and original

This show is eye-opening to all issues including environmental, social and social-economic ones, evolving around design. It is so original and fresh. Well done!

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