Northward: Canada's Design Future
Northward: Canada's Design Future
Podcast Description
Northward is a podcast about how design can unlock a new future for Canada. Featuring the country's most thoughtful design voices, host Michael Grigoriev talks with Canadian leaders and explores what it will take to build a design-forward nation.
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Content Themes
The podcast discusses various aspects of Canadian design, including its evolution, societal impact, and community engagement. Specific episodes explore themes such as the importance of human-centered design featuring guests like Ian Chalmers, who emphasizes the challenges facing designers in Canada and the need for a national design council.
Northward is a podcast about how design can unlock a new future for Canada. Featuring the country’s most thoughtful design voices, host Michael Grigoriev talks with Canadian leaders and explores what it will take to build a design-forward nation.
04: Ana Serrano on designing Canada’s civic future
Host Michael Grigoriev explores how design can shape Canada’s civic future with Ana Serrano, President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University.
Ana argues that design in Canada is still too often understood as object-driven that’s focused on logos, furniture, or typefaces when it should be embedded into the systems, policies, and spaces that define how we live together. From a national design council to rethinking public space and democratic trust, this conversation explores what it would mean to take design seriously as a tool for shaping a more connected, imaginative, and equitable country.
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