Imagine a Place

Adam Stover is a Senior Principal at Kansas City’s Populous and has led the design for some of the most significant sports stadium renovations and new builds of the last decade:

These include Wrigley …

A well-designed hospitality experience transports you… and so does a great conversation.  But when you have a great conversation about well-designed hospitality experiences… well, that’s just going t…

Earth Day is a time to celebrate, learn, and maybe try something new, 
So we’ve got a great conversation today and a couple of questions for you too,
Today, we brought back two of our favorite podcast …

Today, we speak with Wendy Rodgers, CEO of architecture and design firm LPA - and in this episode, she's going to encourage you to "raise your hand."  

Since joining LPA as an intern in 1987, Wendy Ro…

Today, we host the developer and president of Prince Concepts, Philip Kafka - and we promise, this episode will feed your mind and your soul. Philip Kafka’s bold but unconventional vision for reimagi…

Have you ever heard the expression, "start with why?" Well, Rex Miller starts somewhere else.

Here’s what's awesome about this episode… We are dropping this one before the launch of The Resilience Lab…

Our guest today is one of the world’s leading experts in designing for a population that is too often overlooked and misunderstood.

Jane Rohde believes in a global cultural shift toward de-institution…

Today, we host Bolanle Williams-Olley, aka Bola. She’s the CFO for the New York design and architecture firm Mancini Duffy, and she’s going to help you Build Boldly.

Build Boldly is the title of Bola’…

Dianne Murata is the witty and enthusiastic founder of Kimiko Designs.  In today’s interview, she helps you think differently about furniture planning and specification.

Dianne brings over 2 decades o…

Over the last 10 years, Gensler's Todd Heiser has emerged as one of our industry's most creative and BIG thinking leaders in workplace design - and you're about to find out why.

Todd Heiser is a Co-Ma…

We asked our previous guest, Kia Weatherspoon (episode 35 - May 3, 2021), for an intro to someone she’d want to hear from – The first name on her list: Jessica Caldwell.

Jessica Caldwell is the founde…

Ok, a few episodes back, we mentioned that we were cooking up some good stuff in the kitchen at Imagine a Place. Well today, we are proud to announce the launch of our own podcast network, Imagine a …

There is just so much we want to say about our guest Mark Ostrom today - It’s just hard to fit that much goodness into one introduction though. Mark is the founder and executive director of Joy Colla…

In 2016, Amy Leigh Hufford stood on a stage in Chicago as she was handed the IIDA Interior Design Student of the Year Award. For those of us in the room for that moment, it would prove to be unforget…

Christian Giordano is the president and co-owner of the New York design firm Mancini Duffy, and the host of the popular podcast - The Anti-Architect.  We hosted Christian Giordano right here on Imagi…

Shuli Steele is the Director of the Higher Education market at Planon, a global leader in smart building technologies.  She’s an author, a TEDx speaker, and a self-titled learner advocate.

In this epi…

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day - And we want to bring you a conversation that honors the values and legacy that Dr. King left behind for this world…. and Mike Johnson II, well, he wants to b…

Lori Louis is the Sr. Director, Experiential Space Design & Concepting at JLL.  And Lori has built and runs a highly effective and efficient design team that is entirely remote.

So… in this conversati…

In this episode, Doug Shapiro shares his personal journey as a podcast host and what he has learned after nearly two years of conversation. 

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Rachel Bascombe is an architect in Los Angeles at the firm CO Architects and Rachel is number 412.  A number that will soon make sense to you and will probably surprise you.

In today’s interview with …