Cognitive Snap

I talk to Orlando Lovell about how she uses cake as her medium of design to tell important stories and why, even for designers, the medium is the message.Orlando is an interdisciplinary designer whose main medium is cake. You can read her book, CAKE - A Research here. See more of her: http://orlandolovell.com/ Also in the episode:Marshall McLuhan and his books Understanding Media and The Medium is the Massage. Audio clips of his lectures and TV appearances are taken from mywebcowtubeCorrection: I say that the quote from Eating for Victory is by Emily Bentley. The author is actually Amy Bentley from NYU.Quotes from:Eating for Victory Amy Bentley, NYUFair division: From cake cutting to dispute resolution. Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor.Music for this episode is by Text Me Records/Grandbankss, Anna Domini Beats, Wayne Jones and Patrick Patrikios.

As promised, the Audio Guide to Strolling by Maximilian Ritz. Even though the audio guide was made for a specific place in Munich, the Donnersbergerbrücke, I urge you to try out the audio guide with the non-locations in your own life.To hear why Max...

As promised, the English translation of the Audio Guide to Strolling by Maximilian Ritz. Even though the audio guide was made for a specific place in Munich, the Donnersbergerbrücke, I urge you to try out the audio guide with the non-locations in your...

When we talk about mobility, we usually talk about cars and trains, maybe bicycles. But Max thinks there’s a mode of transport that we’ve all been ignoring: Walking. Listen to the episode to see why Max designed an audio guide for strolling in Munich,...

Welcome to Cognitive Snap, a show that explores science, philosophy and economics through design, and my name is Bawa Kulkarni.We’re used to thinking and talking about designed objects, be it physical products or digital services or even intangible...

Not all design is user-centric design. This episode takes a look at speculative design as a way of exploring the possible futures of our planet. I talk to Ele about how a ski-cabin designed in the 1960s led to her master thesis on worms that can decompose plastic .You can see Ele's work here: beworm.orgEle’s Master thesis: Kunststoff als Nährstoff (German) Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby.Beworm’s website: https://www.beworm.org/The Sense of Style by Steven PinkerThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams