Design Thinking Roundtable
Episodes
Tales of the field: Raise Your Voice, A Strategy Game for AI in Humanitarian Work
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create s...
Human-Centered Design for Public Sector Innovation
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge Lagarto, founding member and currently Director of LabX – Center for Innovation in the Public Sector. After starting his career working in con...
An Invitation to Citizen
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Alexander, a Storyteller, Strategist, and Visiting Fellow atHarvard University. Jon started out in advertising and co-founded in 2014 with Irenie ...
Social Innovator in Residence: Pushpa Joshi
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pushpa Joshi is a young activist from Nepal with over a decade of experience advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), adolescent se...
Design for human-wildlife coexistence
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Francesco Cara, a designer, educator and curator. Francesco explores what it means to design in the current epoch, the Anthropocene, marked by climate...
Design Beyond Things: From Experience to Policy Making
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dima Boulad, a designer and problem solver moved by positive impact with more than 14 years of experience. Dima is currently the Head of Design Resear...
Social Innovator in Residence: Meena Kadri
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meena is a social innovation consultant and design strategist tackling complex social challenges through human-centered design and community engagemen...
Entering and Breaking Design
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adriana Valdez Young is a design researcher with more than 15 years of leading design research that focuses on centering the experiences of historical...
Tales of the Field: Vila Feliz Cidade by Carlos Mendes Gonçalves
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create s...
Human-centered design and systems thinking for social impact and community engagement.
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Fabricant is Co-Founder of Dalberg Design, where he brings human-centered design and systems thinking to clients looking for creative approache...
Social Innovator in Residence: Engin Ayaz
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Engin Ayaz, a transdisciplinary designer and strategist with a background in architecture, systems thinking, and interaction design. He is the co-foun...
Radical participatory design
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Victor Udoewa is Service Design Lead for the CDC (centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Prior to this role, Victor was Chief Technology Offi...
Social Workers Who Design: trauma-responsive design and design of care
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachael Dietkus is a social worker-designer. Her practice, research, and writing at the intersections of social work values, trauma-responsive prin...
Social Innovator in Residence: João Brites
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
João Brites is an entrepreneur, breakdancer, and agroforester who has lived in Portugal, Mexico, United States, Brazil and Spain (his current home). ...
Tales of the Field: Amplio Talking Books in Ghana
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create s...
Tales of the Field: Street Lab, reinventing the street through pop-ups
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create s...
Co-design for social impact
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Bhandari is a communication designer from India who has been working in the social impact space for over a decade. Currently she is the Design D...
Social Innovator in Residence: Liz Gerber
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Gerber is a professor at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty fou...
Design for government, climate and science
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Camnasio is a multi-disciplinary designer and researcher focused on government (public services), science, and climate projects. Her work spans f...
Social Innovator in Residence: Isaac Jumba
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac is the founder of Mideva Labs - a research, design and innovation consultancy studio based in Nairobi Kenya, and a co-founder of Idea Studio ...
Community, Co-design and Intentional relationships
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harmonie Coleman is a Senior Community Engagement Manager at IDEO.org. In this role, she collaborates closely with design teams, partners, and local c...
Designing for care and liveable proximity
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ezio Manzini is one of the world's leading and provocative thinkers in design for sustainability and social innovation — considered a major dr...
Design Thinking for Health
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bon Ku is an emergency physician, professor and host of the Design Lab podcast. He is the Assistant Dean for Health and Design and leads the Medicine+...
Design as a tool for social change, impact, and innovation
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our guest was Laetitia Wolff, a creative strategist, design curator, published author, and self-described cultural enginee...
Social Innovator in Residence: Karine Sarkissian
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karine Sarkissian is a founding partner at Tamar Capital (2016), a single-family office based between the Middle East, the UK, and the US. She oversee...
Tales of the Field: Tonya Gayle, Executive Director of Green City Force and advocate for economic justice for young people of color
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to crea...
Design Research for Sustainability
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Joana Casaca Lemos, a design researcher passionate about sustainability innovation. Joana runs an independent practice ...
Tales of the Field: Pushpa Joshi, a Nepalese social activist
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to cre...
Social Innovators in Residence: Lisbeth Shepherd
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lisbeth Shepherd is Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT's designX and Visiting Lecturer at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. Her work fo...
Designing learning experiences for meaningful impact
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Ayah Younis, a human centered-designer for social change. With 10-year experience in education in museums, she employs ...
Designing for Systemic Change through Community-Centered Design
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Megan Marini, co-founder and Principal, Director of Strategy and Outreach of 3X3, an inclusive and...
Civic Design and Urban Innovation: Designing Human-Centered Neighborhoods
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Eric Ho, co-founder and Director of Architecture Commons based in Hong Kong, a design agency for urban innovation. Eric...
Designing for more holistic healthcare experiences
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Javiera Arenas, a design strategist and service designer, from Chile, working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre...
Designing in the Anthropocene with Ben Reason
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Ben Reason, founding partner of pioneering service design studio Livework, created in London in 2001. Ben and I discuss...
Engineer X Design with Rinat Sherzer, Of Course Global
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Designing with Values with Clare Brass
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Clare Brass, a London-based designer and innovator for business, with a focus on sustainability and circular economy. ...
Engineering X Design with Adekunle Oduye, Mailchimp
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Engineering X Design with Hannah Chung, designer & entrepreneur
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Designing for the Unintended with Jess Majekodunmi
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talked with Jess Majekodunmi, an accomplished design historian, an experienced facilitator and an occasional poet, currently the D...
Systems Thinking with Mayo Nissen
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mayo Nissen, a a New York-based creative director, currently Design Lab Director at the New York City Mayor's Office of the Chief Tec...
Engineering X Design with Jeremy Joachim, Gensler
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Engineering X Design with Umi Syam, The New York Times
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Storytelling with Lee-Sean Huang
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lee-Sean Huang, a designer and storyteller, cofounder of Foossa, a community-centered design consultancy, tells us about storytellin...
Engineering X Design with Wayne Suiter Matamoros, Unreasonable Group
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Design Research with Sarah Fathallah
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sarah Fathallah, a Moroccan social designer and researcher, talks about her work at the intersection of human-centered design, commun...
Protecting Children: How human-centered design made ACS more user-friendly
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tim Reitzes from NYC Civic Service Design Studio at Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity and Daniel Herrera from the Administratio...
Veteran Suicide Prevention: How CDC and the Lab at OPM collaborated to give veterans a voice
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode, our host, Priyanka Vora sat down with experts at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Lab at OPM (The United States O...
Engineering X Design with Alonso Castro, Verizon
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Engineering X Design with Jocelyn Miller, JM Coaching and Training
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Engineering X Design with Jeff Kessler, IDEO
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we in...
Human-centered design in the Public Sector
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Design Thinking Roundtable returns with its third season —Designing for the Public to investigate the meaning of Human-Centered Design in the publi...
Disability-Led Design: Inclusive Design Futures
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the season finale of the Designing for All Humans series, we sat down with disability advocates to learn why inclusive design has the potential to...
Empowerment through Play: Inclusive Design in Practice
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of the Designing for All Humans series, we feature two fascinating projects that empower children with disabilities through play: P...
Equality vs. Equity: Introduction to Inclusive Design
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This first episode of the Designing for All Humans series introduces key concepts and vocabulary in inclusive design through conversation with educato...
Sameera Chukkapalli, NeedLab, on the importance of cocreation in sustainable innovation
09 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Human-centered design plays an important role in the intersection of architecture, sustainability and social impact. In this episode, Sameera Chukkapa...
Sean Rhodes, Frog Design, on the evolving role of designers and human behavior as a medium
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do designers have a seat at the table when it comes to solving the wicked problems of the world? If the medium is the message, what does it mean to sh...
Alex Kozovski, McKinsey & Co, on how designers and management consultants can complement each other
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, management consultancies have started acquiring design firms and several have been integrating design teams within their consulting p...