Create Tomorrow, The WGSN Podcast
Episodes
52. The Future of Hybrid Working
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following the pandemic many professionals around the world are still combining remote and office working. What’s more it’s looking good for produc...
51. Why Possibilism is the Future with Architect Michael Pawlyn
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Pawlyn is a biomimicry expert, TED talk star and founding director of the London-based practice Exploration Architecture, he is also co-author...
50. Unwrapping the Future of Sustainable Packaging
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we read news reports of microplastics being present in human blood and the latest UN climate report issued by the IPCC reminded us that time has ne...
49. Listen Better with Kitty Suidman of Sonos
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Toward the end of 2021, audio tech giant Sonos released its "Listen Better” report alongside a climate action plan in which is laid out its commitme...
48. The Opportunities for Digital Fashion
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WGSN has been tracking digital assets for many years now but we’re seeing a significant rise in the engagement across markets, regions, categories a...
47. Exploring Cryptocurrencies, NFTs and Web3
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Curious about crypto? Join Andrea Bell, director of WGSN Insight, as she hosts this episode unpacking all things crypto, from Web3 and the Metaverse t...
46. Talking Alt-Choc with Dr Johnny Drain, The Walter White of Fermentation
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve seen alternatives to meat and dairy products on the market for some time now, and the embracing of plant-based meat alternatives have sky-rock...
45. Care-Taking for the Future: Bathfluencers, Mood Foods and Daily Home Healthcare
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wellness themes play a major part in our flagship report Big Ideas 2024 which has just landed on all our product design platforms. One of our most pop...
44. Designing Wow with Ramdane Touhami, Founder of Beauty Brand Buly 1803
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ramdane Touhami is a creative visionary, serial entrepreneur and the man behind global beauty brand Buly 1803, which he founded in 2014 with his wife ...
43. The Rise of Gorpcore & the Social Sports Boom
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we throw the spotlight on outdoor lifestyles. A topic we've been closely tracking at WGSN as the pandemic has shifted consumer behaviour, wi...
42. Quick Commerce, Data and the Meta-Economy - Looking Ahead to 2022
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi is joined by three members of the WGSN's consultancy team, Mindset, to discuss the top priorities design brands shoul...
41. Top Trends for 2022 - From Flying Taxis to Waterless Washing
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2022 is just around the corner. In what has been another year of ups and downs, we're now looking forward to the clean slate of a brand new year. At W...
40. Intimate Hedonism for the Holiday Season
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're in the midst of party season in many regions of the world whether celebrating Christmas or looking ahead to Lunar New Year. While many of us had...
39. Regenerative Design: Repairing the World with Carole Collet
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a global sense of disappointment it's even more crucial to discuss and determine how brands and creatives can design systems and products that re...
38. What's in Store for IRL Retail?
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we enter what is traditionally the busiest time for retail in many regions, we felt it was time to shine a light on bricks and mortar stores and di...
37. Create Better: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Future
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The topic of sustainability is never far from the top of our agenda at WGSN and with the publication of our new white paper "Create Better", this epis...
36. Diversity, Desire and Teledildonics – Inside the Consumer Sex Revolution
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At WGSN we have published a number of reports recently about the shifts and strategies in selling sex on Insight, sexual wellness on Beauty and inclus...
35. Creating a Sustainable Fashion Week with Cecilie Thorsmark
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi speaks to Copenhagen Fashion Week CEO Cecilie Thorsmark who, as leader of this sustainably focussed fashion week, is o...
34. Into the Metaverse
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2021 Mark Zuckerberg declared that the future of Facebook is the metaverse, but as a concept it’s not new, having first been coined in the 1...
33. The Future of Social Robots with Carla Diana
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, WGSN Executive Editorial Director Bethan Ryder speaks to author, designer and educator Carla Diana & WGSN's head of Consumer Tech Sarah...
32. Introducing Consumer Tech at WGSN
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are welcoming a new member of the WGSN team as we embark on the next chapter of the company. Having made our name forecasting trends for ...
31. Challenging Masculinities – Redefining Identities
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The wider concept of gender identity has altered in the public conscious over the past decade, with a more positive understanding emerging that gender...
30. The Growing Appetite for Plant-Based Products with Bryt Life Foods
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year as the pandemic took hold globally, consumer awareness of their own health and wellbeing, and also the food that we are putting int...
29. The Pandemic Pet Boom – Giving Brands Paws For Thought
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has created a pet boom, with humankind across the globe seeking solace affection and touch from furry ...
28. Reimagining our Relationship with Nature with Superflux
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WGSN Creative Director Lisa White is joined by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, co-founders of Superflux, a studio that creates speculative worlds and tells ...
27. Material Gains for the Future with Mylo
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi speaks to the CEO and Founder of fashion-textile disruptor Bolt Threads, Dan Widmaier. Joining them is WGSN's Head of ...
26. The Captivating Power of Nostalgia
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the WGSN team discusses youth and nostalgia, two things that have often (though it seems counterintuitive) gone hand in hand. Although teens...
25. Defining the new luxury with Nanushka
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi speaks to Nanushka Founder, Sandra Sandor and Peter Baldaszti the company’s co-owner and CEO. Over the years the label has mad...
24. Sustainability Branding in a Sceptical Age
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For consumers, the climate crisis is no longer a theoretical problem that will need to be solved in the future, but rather, it is something that is ur...
23. A Design for Life with Yves Béhar
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The DNA of an Yves Béhar project is pushing design and technology boundaries to forge new territories often light years ahead of the mainstream. From...
22. Fashion's New Comfort Zone
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year it's felt like stalemate. In our Groundhog Day existence, rarely has fashion seemed so pragmatic. We've seen sweatpants, puffer coa...
21. The Value of Truth in Beauty with Deciem CEO Nicola Kilner
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi speaks to CEO and Co-Founder of beauty company Deciem, Nicola Kilner. Carla and Nicola discuss, the impact of seemingly endle...
20. Retail Disruption - Designing an Omnichannel Future
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Retail is once more in a state of flux. The pandemic led to huge shifts in consumer behaviour in 2020 and this is set to continue into 2021. In the US...
19. The Future of Homeware Rental with Harth Co-Founder Henrietta Thompson
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At WGSN we have been discussing the growing rental markets for fashion as well as furniture and interiors for a number of years now, this has accelera...
18. Rebranding Wellness - Staying Healthy in 2021
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
January tends to be the time of year when many of us pull our gym kit out of the back of our cupboards and generally set goals to become the best vers...
17. Talking Key Trends for 2021 and Beyond
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a special episode WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi and Senior Strategist for WGSN Insight Petah Marian unite to take a look at some of the 10 key trends in ...
16. Reflecting on a Year of Acceleration, Connectivity and Innovation
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode of the year the tables are turned as David Davies, Ascential's Chief Content Officer quizzes WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi on her high an...
15. Exploring Consumer Trends Holiday 2020
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The holiday season this year is going to be an incredibly complex one. People are dealing with restrictions on movement and gathering while still look...
14. New Visions of the City
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are locations which take up and outsized space in our imaginations. They are places that ambitious and creative young people aspire to go to in...
13. Adapting to Future Consumer Behaviours
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi is joined by Andrea Bell, WGSN's Director of Insight. Over the course of the conversation they discuss the impact of t...
12. Making Home – Lifestyles of the Future
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the places where we have seen some of the largest shifts over the past year has been in the home. Once a place where we might have just slept, ...
11. The Value of Beauty
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi is joined by Director of Beauty Jenni Middleton. The pair discuss the immediate impact that the beauty industry has se...
10. Serving the Recessionary Consumer
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The global shutdowns earlier this year and continued restrictions on movement have plunged much of the world into recession. As we operate through...
9. Preserving the Future of Food
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, WGSN MD Carla Buzasi is joined by Director of WGSN Food and Drink Kara Nielsen. The pair discuss how the global pandemic has influenced ...
8. Touch in a Contactless World
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prior to the pandemic, we were facing an intimacy recession. Coronavirus has accelerated this shift even further, with lockdowns putting physical dist...
7. Reimagining the Home for Work, Rest and Play
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, WGSN MD Carla Buzasi is joined by Director of Lifestyle and Interiors and leader of the Creative Forecast team, Lisa White. The pair dis...
6. Global Strategies for a Local World
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Localism was emerging as a key trend before the pandemic, featuring in the Future Consumer 2022 Forecast, the Retail Forecast and the Shopper Forecast...
5. Prioritising Diversity & Inclusion in Business
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WGSN Managing Director Carla Buzasi is joined by Amiyra Perkins who as well as being one of the directors of WGSN's Mindset consulting business, also ...
4. The Optimism Episode
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The events of the past six months have created a tremendous amount of anxiety, however, we are now seeing an opportunity to refocus on the positive ex...
Feed Drop - Progress Through Creativity | Bozoma Saint John
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In light of the protests and demonstrations against police brutality and social injustice that we have seen across America and around the world this w...
3. The New Attitudes Towards Food & Drink
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How we eat has changed tremendously over the first half of this year, as enforced lockdowns have led to increased food stockpiling and most of the wor...
2. The Home Sanctuary: Driving Design Trends in a Post-Coronavirus World
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores what the shift to the home will mean for broader design trends in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. As people continue to sp...
1. The Beauty Industry in a Post-Coronavirus World
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our topic this episode is the future of the beauty industry in a post-COVID-19 world. Despite the quickly-shifting landscape, the beauty industry will...