Scientific American contributing editor George Musser discusses how the open-office plan took off, the downsides its designers didn’t anticipate, and what a better office layout might look like.
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Designing For Disability Helps Everybody
Sara Hendren teaches design for disability at Olin College of Engineering, and she joins us to talk about the idea that disability isn’t about a person, so much as the way a person must navigate an unhelpful world.
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Designing For Disability
Bess Williamson, associate professor of art history, theory and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, joins us to discuss how design has evolved as it attempts to accommodate all users, which she writes about in “Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design.”
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Blocks, Blackboards And The Development Of Kids
Alexandra Lange joins us to talk about what parents should be thinking about when considering which playthings are right for their children.
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Designing Your Life
Stanford lecturer Dave Evans joins us to talk about how we can borrow strategies from designers to create a more meaningful existence.
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Diamonds Are Forever
This hour, we’ll talk about how those characteristics became associated with these polished rocks with Susan Falls, who teaches anthropology at Savannah College of Art and Design.
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