The Resilient Designers Podcast
The Resilient Designers Podcast
Podcast Description
While design is increasingly seen as crucial to addressing complex problems, we often overlook the burden this places on designers themselves. When trying to change the status quo, designers often face resistance, experience uncertainty and feel stuck. Through open conversations with design practitioners and educators, we discover what skills, knowledge and attitudes are needed to become more resilient as designers.
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Explores themes around resilience in design, the intersection of creativity and professional practice, and the importance of language and feedback in fostering growth, with episodes discussing topics like the role of poetry in design and the embracing of pluralism and ambiguity.
While design is increasingly seen as crucial to addressing complex problems, we often overlook the burden this places on designers themselves. When trying to change the status quo, designers often face resistance, experience uncertainty and feel stuck. Through open conversations with design practitioners and educators, we discover what skills, knowledge and attitudes are needed to become more resilient as designers.
What happens when design meets the real mess of the world? In this episode, Brooke and Leon talk to Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer about designing with complexity – where there are no neat problems, no perfect solutions, and no clear finish lines. From system shifts to directionality, Mieke challenges the dominant worldview of design as problem solving and offers a new lens: one that values relationships, learning and navigating the unknown together. Mieke shares her journey from traditional industrial design to tackling complex societal challenges, emphasising the importance of systems thinking, transdisciplinary collaboration and a shift from a mechanistic worldview to a complex relational one.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Designing Out Crime Research Center in Sydney
- Professor Kees Dorst and the frame innovation methodology: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23461421-frame-innovation
- New South Wales Mental Health Commission
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their perspective on well-being.
- Terri Trespicio’s TEDx Talk on passion and career paths: https://youtu.be/6MBaFL7sCb8?si=IVYS0XRA_GrVbBC_
- Designing Your Life – Odyssey Planning: Activity and worksheets for exploring future paths: https://designingyour.life/worksheets-and-discussion-question
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