The Creative Fix
The Creative Fix
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The Creative Fix is where top creatives, CEOs, and industry disruptors share unfiltered insights on design, branding, and innovation. Hosted by Kristoff Doria di Cirie and Grant Dudson, it’s straight-talking, inspiring, and anything but predictable.
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The podcast delves into a variety of topics focused on design, branding, and innovation. Episodes like 'Languishing to Flourishing' explore the mental health implications of workplace design while discussing concepts like 'eudaimonia'. Other thematic focuses include criticism of consumer culture, as seen in 'Skims Diner review & the post-product economy', showcasing the podcast's commitment to threading social commentary through discussions of contemporary design events.
The Creative Fix is where top creatives, CEOs, and industry disruptors share unfiltered insights on design, branding, and innovation. Hosted by Kristoff Doria di Cirie and Grant Dudson, it’s straight-talking, inspiring, and anything but predictable.
Runtime: 30 minutes | Jump to David Dewane interview at 7:20
This week, I’m entertaining the radical notion that our workplaces needn’t be soul-crushing productivity prisons. Architect David Dewane joins me to unpack “eudaimonia” – that delightfully unwieldy Greek term that might just save us from the tyranny of open-plan mediocrity.
David’s “Eudaimonia Machine” concept proposes something truly revolutionary: what if offices were designed for human flourishing rather than human filing?
Our conversation wanders through the fertile territories of flow states and architectural ethics while steadfastly avoiding PowerPoint-friendly platitudes.
I also take you through Milan Design Week’s rare moments of restraint – including Ralph Lauren’s impeccably calibrated Hamptons reverie and Swarovski’s mobile crystalline garden. Both proof that “experiential” needn’t mean “assaulting every sense simultaneously.”
On a possibly quixotic note, I make the case for Universal Studios’ Bedford development being something other than a conversation about tourism in fibreglass. The UK’s immersive design sector might just get the incubator it didn’t realize it needed.
The Gas Station this week spotlights:
– David Ogiste’s deserved On Agency Award for his Nobody’s Café studio (obsession does pay off)
– Benjamin Legourd’s cinematic love letters to French craftsmanship
– Burberry’s audacious desert mirage atop a Wuhan mall – a reminder that the brand’s environmental dexterity consistently outshines its C-suite melodrama.
LINKS
David Dewane at Geniant
Connect with David on LinkedIn
David’s Substack
Full unedited conversation available Wednesday on my Substack
This episode graciously supported by Manchester Fashion Week – where the next thing often looks nothing like the last, and neither do we.
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