Imagine a Place
This is a podcast about people, places, and design that will help you learn and grow. Our guests share insight, stories, and big ideas that inspire courage and curiosity. Whether it's our workplace, our home, or all the places in between, interior design is shaping the human experience every day.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 191
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Shaping yourself and those around you
Jennifer Ruckel is the Vice President of Sales for 3form, one of the most design-centric material companies shaping the built environment today. In my interview with Jennifer, I set out to learn abo…
00:20:03 |
Sat 06 Mar 2021
Change management for the road ahead
Hilary Green is the Director of Change Management for Scotiabank, and with 88,000 employees, the stakes are high. In our interview, Hillary shares some of her most valuable insights for dealing with…
00:29:05 |
Sat 27 Feb 2021
Mentoring as Activism
Taylor Staten is one of only 520 Black female architects in the US. She owns and runs TnS Studio, an architecture firm in the South Side of Chicago. She speaks up, she speaks out, but most importan…
00:13:38 |
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Can design thinking fix education?
Today, we bring you a story about a school in North Carolina and how the power of place transformed the future for a group of high school students. Meredith Williams is the principal at North Rowan …
00:21:59 |
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Emmanuel Daniel (Microsoft): The Workplace of 2031
Emmanuel Daniel is director of industry innovation, Smart Buildings and Campuses at Microsoft. Today, he will paint you a picture of a day in the workplace in 2031 and how data will play a role in cr…
00:28:40 |
Sat 06 Feb 2021
Jane Hallinan is NOT a decorator.
Jane Hallinan, of Perkins Eastman in Pittsburgh, has become one of the most networked designers in the Workplace Design industry. She is also the founder of “Not A Decorator,” an apparel and accessor…
00:33:56 |
Sat 30 Jan 2021
Stephen Searer (officesnapshots.com): The story behind one of design’s most beloved websites.
Stephen Searer founded and runs one of the most popular office design websites in the world: OfficeSnapshots.com. In this episode, he shares his journey through entrepreneurship, how he almost lost …
00:19:50 |
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Andrew Alford (Andrew Alford Creative): Living Your Most Colorful Life
Andrew Alford is best described as a creative human, artist, and interior designer fighting a war against beige and boring.
With more than twenty years of experience in the interior design and crea…
00:49:59 |
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Dr. Eve Edelstein (Clinicians for Design): The Intersection of Neuroscience and Architecture
If you are curious about architecture and you’re also curious about your brain, then it means that you are curious about Dr. Eve Edelstein. Eve lives at the intersection of architecture and neuroscie…
00:32:35 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
The Imagine a Place Mission and Looking Ahead to 2021
Host, Doug Shapiro, shares the mission behind the Imagine a Place podcast, what's ahead in 2021, and the one question he challenges you to answer.
As a gift to our listeners, sign-up to receive you…
00:05:41 |
Mon 28 Dec 2020
Bill Bouchey (HOK): Neurodiversity and Surviving the WFH Hangover
In this episode, Bill Bouchey shares the design strategies and thinking behind HOK’s latest research: Designing a Neurodiverse Workplace. We also learn his point of view on a new purpose for the onc…
00:46:54 |
Sun 13 Dec 2020
David Galullo (Rapt Studio): The truth about great workplace culture.
David Galullo, CEO of Rapt Studio, shares the secrets and debunks the myths around great workplace culture. Rapt Studio has recently designed for Dropbox, Google, Ancestry, and Vans. As a multidiscip…
00:33:00 |
Sun 06 Dec 2020
Amanda Schneider (ThinkLab): It's time to rethink our processes.
This week we welcome Amanda Schneider, founder of ThinkLab, the research division of SANDOW. Amanda and her team work to understand the trends, opportunities, and threats that swirl around the interi…
00:33:09 |
Sun 29 Nov 2020
Donald Rattner (My Creative Space): Is your home limiting your creativity?
Want to be a more creative person? The answer might be right in front of you. Donald Rattner is an award-winning author and architect who spent years of his life exploring the deep instinctual conn…
00:39:17 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
James Kerrigan (Jacobs): Culture, place, and tools: The future of place making.
James Kerrigan is a musician, designer, and a true global citizen. His career in design has carried him from Australia, London, Los Angeles, DC, and now Dallas. In addition to his masterful skill in …
00:28:25 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Krystal Lucero (Edwards Mulhausen): Using the gifts you’ve been given to create change. - Ep. 14
In this episode, we speak with Krystal Lucero, Sr. Designer at Edwards Mulhausen. In our discussion, she explores her personal history and journey as a designer, a Black American, and an active membe…
00:35:23 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Pam Light (HOK) & Dr. Scott Zeller, MD (Vituity): How will mental health and remote work impact design? - Ep. 13
Today, we bring together two forces in their respective fields: Pam Light, a design legend at HOK, and Dr. Scott Zeller, Vice President and leading Psychiatrist at Vituity. In this episode, we discus…
00:28:54 |
Sun 27 Sep 2020
Ximena Diaz (A ESTUDIO): Facing gender bias, finding mom-strength, and coaching next-gen design. - Ep. 12
Today we speak with Ximena Diaz, professor, architect, interior designer, and founder of A Estudio. In this episode, we discuss some of the industry’s most important topics, as Ximena guides us throu…
00:20:24 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
What have we learned after 10 episodes?
We can't believe we already have 10 published episodes of the Imagine a Place podcast! This milestone got us to pause and reflect on the amazing conversations we've had with our guests. So much great…
00:08:28 |
Mon 07 Sep 2020
Katherine Ankerson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): Design education in the new world. - Ep. 11
Katherine Ankerson is an award-winning author and the Dean for the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska. In our interview, she paints a picture of how design education looks in the …
00:22:21 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
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