Is design spiritual? Pentagram’s Eddie Opara in a What Design Can Do special

Greenpeace is the largest environmental organization in the world with over 3 million members. Living in Nairobi, Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa is their global CTO. She also shaped tech at UNICEF, the World Food Programme, and ActionAid. Many of the communities she works with don’t speak tech. Priscilla is their tech translator, helping them access our modern digital world. Discover how to design with collectives in mind, working towards digital inclusion. According to the UN, more than a third of the world's population have never used the internet. In 2020, in Africa alone half the population had no access to the internet. Why should this concern you? Because a fair and free internet benefits us all. Access to global technologies can save lives. It helps people thrive; to live to their full potential. And it empowers collectives to speak out, to rise up, to resist. To help us all do better as a species.This episode came together in partnership with The Next Web, Europe's leading tech festival. It’s where you can meet founders, firestarters, and VCs. Year round you can follow TNW’s opinionated coverage of tech news that matters on thenextweb.com.And we want to hear from you too! We’re researching what makes communities, memberships, and movements so powerful. Or in short, how to better design for belonging. You can help by sharing your own experiences in our first listener survey. Go to memberful.design/community to complete the survey. It only takes a minute to share your wisdom and it’s completely anonymous. We’ll share takeaways on a future show. So keep listening and let’s learn together. Memberful Design is a show about firestarters sparking initiatives that have a lasting impact. Formerly known as Verwondering, leading design podcast of the Netherlands. Now, we’re bringing this award-winning series to the international stage in English. Memberful Design is crafted with love by the team behind the design studio Momkai. At Momkai, we've learned that building experiences that empower communities create durable initiatives. Over the past 20 years, we've put this knowledge into practice on projects from all over Europe, the US, and Japan. Are you looking for a fresh perspective or want to join the team? Go to momkai.com and get in touch.Memberful Design is hosted by Harald Dunnink, Momkai’s founder and co-founder of journalism platform De Correspondent. As a creative director, he loves telling stories. With the birth of his daughter he finally found an audience that’s always demanding more. His guests on the show help you think like a designer, decide like an entrepreneur, and dream big like an optimist. Discover what it takes to let your plans succeed and create meaningful connections, through Memberful Design. Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Memberful Design is a show about firestarters sparking initiatives that have a lasting impact. Formerly known as Verwondering, leading design podcast of the Netherlands. Now, we’re bringing this award-winning series to the international stage in English. For years, Avery Trufelman was part of 99% Invisible, a wildly popular show on design that’s been around forever. She helped creator Roman Mars tell stories about how the world gets built and where ideas come from. There, Avery created a series herself that blew everyone away: Articles of Interest, a podcast about the history of what we wear and what we say with the clothes that cover our bodies. Now, let’s embrace the things that are invisible because of their everydayness and celebrate new beginnings — a new, independent season of Articles of Interest and the launch of Memberful Design. What can we learn about telling a good story and crafting the future, from someone who has radio in her blood and design on her mind?And we want to hear from you too! We’re researching what makes communities, memberships, and movements so powerful. Or in short, how to better design for belonging. You can help by sharing your own experiences in our first listener survey. Go to memberful.design/community to complete the survey. It only takes a minute to share your wisdom and it’s completely anonymous. We’ll share takeaways on a future show. So keep listening and let’s learn together. Memberful Design is crafted with love by the team behind the design studio Momkai. At Momkai, we've learned that building experiences that empower communities create durable initiatives. Over the past 20 years, we've put this knowledge into practice on projects from all over Europe, the US, and Japan. Are you looking for a fresh perspective or want to join the team? Go to momkai.com and get in touch.Memberful Design is hosted by Harald Dunnink, Momkai’s founder and co-founder of journalism platform De Correspondent. As a creative director, he loves stories. With the birth of his daughter he finally found an audience that’s always demanding more. His guests on the show help you think like a designer, decide like an entrepreneur, and dream big like an optimist. Discover what it takes to let your plans succeed and create meaningful connections, through Memberful Design.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Memberful Design is a show about firestarters sparking initiatives that have a lasting impact. Formerly known as Verwondering, the leading design podcast of the Netherlands. Now, we’re bringing this award-winning series to the international stage in English. Our first episode features podcast legend Avery Trufelman, best known for her work on 99% Invisible and the hit series Articles of Interest. Discover what we say with the clothes that cover our bodies, the sincerity of the brands that make them, and what all these designs signal to our communities.Creator and host is Harald Dunnink, founder of design studio Momkai and co-founder of journalism platform De Correspondent. As a creative director, he loves telling stories. With the birth of his daughter he finally found an audience that’s always demanding more. His guests on the show help you think like a designer, decide like an entrepreneur, and dream big like an optimist. Discover what it takes to let your plans succeed and create meaningful connections, through Memberful Design.Memberful Design is crafted with love by the team behind the design studio Momkai.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John LePore changed how we imagine the future of technology, with Tony Stark on his side. As the principal creative director of Perception, the Emmy-nominated design lab from New York, he has pioneered UI in films for the past 16 years. If you’re watching any Hollywood blockbuster where a character interacts with an advanced technology, there’s a solid chance that he and his team created it.Just in the Marvel universe alone, he’s been part of The Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, and the beautiful Black Panther technology that could empower any tribe. His work is often based on real world research, like that of MIT or the University of Tokyo. And just as often, it’s being applied for real world clients, too, like SpaceX, Audi, Ford, Microsoft’s Hololens, or the all-new Hummer EV. Discover how to take audience members on a journey where they can understand future interactions – and why it’s important to obsess over the reality of any detail.This episode came together in partnership with The Next Web, Europe's leading tech festival. It’s where you can meet founders, firestarters, and VCs. Year round you can follow TNW’s opinionated coverage of tech news that matters on thenextweb.com.Verwondering is the leading design podcast of the Netherlands. In every episode, creative director Harald Dunnink – founder of the memberful design agency Momkai and cofounder of journalism platform De Correspondent – talks to other creatives about the impact of their work.From artists to curators, together they explore what makes a design meaningful.This eye-opening podcast is a visual journey too. You can view all the designs that Harald and his guests discuss, by visiting the show’s gallery, on verwondering.com.Made by Momkai – momkai.comZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

He’s a partner at Pentagram, a senior critic at Yale, an Englishman in New York, a designer that codes, and a valued member of the AGI. At 50, Eddie Opara is exactly the same age as Pentagram itself. It’s the largest independent design firm in the world. All of its 23 partners create. And if a partner is not doing so well, it’s equated. That’s why Opara refers to Pentagram as a dysfunctional, but wonderful family.On the eve of Eddie's departure to the US, his father said to him "Design is spiritual. It's a way of life." He chewed on that phrase for 26 years. Listen to the show to to get a better understanding of what his father meant and how it can inspire your own endeavours. This episode came together in partnership with the friendly folks at What Design Can Do. For over a decade, this resilient group has empowered the global creative community. Check out the WDCD hubs around the world (Amsterdam, São Paulo, Nairobi, Tokyo, Delhi, Mexico City) or join them online at whatdesigncando.comVerwondering is the leading design podcast of the Netherlands. In Dutch, Verwondering means Wonderment. In every episode, creative director Harald Dunnink – founder of the memberful design agency Momkai and cofounder of journalism platform De Correspondent – talks to other creatives about the impact of their work.From artists to curators, together they explore what makes a design meaningful. This eye-opening podcast is a visual journey too. You can view all the designs that Harald and his guests discuss, by visiting the show’s gallery – on verwondering.comMade by Momkai – momkai.comZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hoe verander je de wereld - of ieder geval jouw stukje ervan - door sociaal bewust vorm te geven aan je leven en je werk. Als design activist zet Gyor Moore zijn identiteit voorop, ‘celebrating Queer and Blackness’. Als ondernemer helpt hij anderen dit ook te doen.Gyor is de oprichter van Pride Radio, het enige video-platform dat uitsluitend muziek draait van artiesten die zich als Queer identificeren, hij is de eigenaar van lifestyle brand SOBKOLT en ontwierp voor iedereen van het Stedelijk tot NikkieTutorials en van Netflix tot de Nationale Politie. Maar hoe kom je er nou achter hoe jij het verschil kunt maken met design? Een gesprek over kiezen en kaders.Verwondering is misschien wel de meest visuele podcast ter wereld. Alles wat er wordt besproken kun je terugzien in de gallery op verwondering.com.Reacties, tips of ideeën voor een gast? Stuur Harald een bericht op Instagram. Je kunt ook een review achterlaten via iTunes — vinden we heel leuk om te lezen en het helpt andere designliefhebbers deze podcast te ontdekken.Made by Momkai – momkai.comZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is an international edition of Verwondering, recorded in English. Our guest is Chinese-American author and curator Aric Chen. He’s the new general and artistic director of The New Institute, that weirdly intriguing place for design and digital culture, with one of the largest architecture archives in the world.As globalization brought us a climate crisis that we’re just now beginning to fully understand, we find ourselves with a globe that isn’t the borderless adventure land we once hoped it would be. In this episode, Chen shares his belief that manifestos are part of how we got into the mess that we're in. For too long we have been beguiled by their deceptive clarity. Instead, Chen shares his passionate plea for experimentation in design.Chen studied architecture and anthropology at UC Berkeley, followed by design history at Cooper Hewitt in New York. On a whim he moved to China and was the creative director of the Beijing Design Week. He built a collection from scratch for M+, a brand new museum in Hong Kong. For the past 13 years, he lived happily in China and had no intention of leaving Shanghai. What drew this explorer to a young institution in Europe that nevertheless has a long history; a story that he has admired for years?In Dutch, Verwondering means Wonderment. Every episode, Harald Dunnink talks to other designers and creative directors about the impact of their work. From artists to curators, together they explore what makes a design meaningful.This eye-opening podcast is a visual journey too. You can view all the designs that Harald and his guest discuss, by visiting the show’s gallery – on verwondering.comMade by Momkai – momkai.comZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nu Rusland buurland Oekraïne binnenvalt, is actievoeren belangrijker dan ooit. In gesprek met Lies Ros, medeoprichter van het collectief Wild Plakken. De invloedrijke ontwerpers van visueel verzet. Wat kunnen we leren van de succesvolle protestbewegingen uit de jaren 80, over hoe je gevoelens van onrecht verbeeldt?Affiches die nu in het MoMA hangen werden destijds in no time ontworpen vanuit een kraakpand aan de Rozengracht in Amsterdam. Er was geen tijd te verliezen. Zonder sociale media betekende je boodschap verspreiden dat je in het holst van de nacht ging wildplakken. Voor abortus en tegen apartheid, dictators of de woningnood. Ontdek in deze aflevering hoe je je mening nooit onder stoelen of banken hoeft te steken. Over de impact van iconische posters en krachtige leuzen.Verwondering is misschien wel de meest visuele podcast ter wereld. Alles wat er wordt besproken kun je terugzien in de gallery op verwondering.com.Reacties, tips of ideeën voor een gast? Stuur Harald een bericht op Instagram. Je kunt ook een review achterlaten via iTunes — vinden we heel leuk om te lezen en het helpt andere designliefhebbers deze podcast te ontdekken.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dankzij NFT’s kun je eigenaar zijn van een digitaal object. Wat betekent dat voor makers? En hoe geef je vorm aan je virtuele zelf? Amber Jae Slooten is dé expert om ons door de wereld van web3 te gidsen. Voor Vogue ontwierp ze hun allereerste NFT cover. Ze is verantwoordelijk voor het eerste kledingstuk ooit geveild op de blockchain. Als cofounder van The Fabricant maakt ze enkel mode die virtueel is.Amber ontwerpt met haar team high-end kleding voor je digitale identiteit, dikwijls samen met merken als Off White en Adidas. De founder van Dapper Labs, maker van het succesvolle NBA Top Shot en de CryptoKitties, zit in haar raad van advies. Verken met Amber hoe je zelf digitale mode kunt ontwerpen in thefabricant.studio en leer hoe je je kunt uitdrukken op allerlei nieuwe platformen, zoals je maar wilt.Verwondering is misschien wel de meest visuele podcast ter wereld. Alles wat er wordt besproken kun je terugzien in de gallery op verwondering.com.Reacties, tips of ideeën voor een gast? Stuur Harald een bericht op Instagram. Je kunt ook een review achterlaten via iTunes — vinden we heel leuk om te lezen en het helpt andere designliefhebbers deze podcast te ontdekken.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

‘s Werelds beroemdste tuinontwerper denkt creatief na over uitdagingen die anderen voor lief nemen. Met parken die er bij slecht licht goed uitzien en planten die uitgebloeid ook prachtig ogen. Wandel mee door zijn bijzondere tuin in Hummelo, waar zijn gestage reis naar wereldfaam begon.Piet Oudolf weet zijn observatiekunst te combineren met een grote kennis van planten en een niet aflatende honger om te blijven creëren. Kijk mee door de ogen van een grootmeester. Een gesprek over bijsturen en loslaten.Designs van zijn hand vind je op het puntje van Manhattan, in Londen pal naast de Tower Bridge of straks bij de nieuwe Camden Highline, in Denemarken bij ‘s werelds beste restaurant Noma of in Duitsland bij het Vitra Design Museum. Dichter bij huis kun je het zelf ervaren in de mooie tuinen van Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, in het Máximapark bij Utrecht of aan de oevers van de Maas in Rotterdam.Verwondering is misschien wel de meest visuele podcast ter wereld. Alles wat er wordt besproken kun je terugzien in de gallery op verwondering.com.Reacties, tips of ideeën voor een gast? Stuur Harald een bericht op Instagram. Je kunt ook een review achterlaten via iTunes — vinden we heel leuk om te lezen en het helpt andere designliefhebbers deze podcast te ontdekken.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.