Listen to our FINAL(!) episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Christian Bason, director of the Danish Design Center, author and thought leader on mission driven design.  Christian sat down with Marco (Unfortunately, Carola was still not able to make it due to personal circumstances) and talked with Marco about complexity, the role of design centers, the role and responsibilities of designers, governments and companies, and about stretching the future, for us all and for a more...

Listen to our latest episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with J Bob Alotta, Media activist, filmmaker, movement strategist and current Vice President, Global Programs at Mozilla. J Bob sat down with Marco at the Society 5.0 Festival in Amsterdam on October 12-13 where she was one of the keynote speakers. She talked with Marco about building movements for transformation, Mozilla as a driver of change, activism in times of uncertainty and of course, fueled with the topics of AI, big tech and...

Listen to our inspiring new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Roland van der Vorst, head of innovation of the international Dutch bank Rabobank and former professor of TU Delft and founder and director of Freedomlab. Roland sat down with Marco at the Society 5.0 Festival in Amsterdam on October 12-13. He talked with Marco about transitions, looking at things differently, the role and responsibilities of corporates and academia in these transformational times, and of course what it...

Listen to our new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Matthew Wizinsky, a designer, researcher and educator. He is author of the amazing new book 'Design After Capitalism'. Matthew talks with Marco and Carola about transition design, the role and responsibilities of academics and educators in design, new visions on the design profession and about capitalism from a designer’s perspective. Matthews's perspective. 🎤 As designers, we perhaps don't fully grasp what our mission is...

Listen to our fascinating new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Ruurd Priester,  Ruurd talks with Marco and Carola about the stack of crises, doughnut economics and how he thinks we should transform (the) design (field) for good. 🎤  Most designers are in fact not designers, because they are working in the current or old economic models. And designers solve problems, and the old economic models are in fact the problem... 🎤  Dear Future, I am ready to work for the younger...

Listen to our dazzling new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Celiane Camargo-Borges, pioneer in imagineering, researcher and founder of designing conversations where she advocates the power of dialogue.  Celiane talks with Marco and Carola about the potential of dialogue, collective creativity, Imagineering Design and social change. 🎤  How can we (as educators) shift from being owners of content to facilitators of learning processes? 🎤  Our focus on 'fixing things' blinds us...

Listen to our sparkling new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Aga Szóstek, strategic designer, author of The Umami Strategy and co-host of the podcast The Next Wave. Aga talks with Marco and Carola about transformation, going beyond human centeredness and the umami strategy. 🎤  Instead of teaching others about transformation we should teach them the skills to keep on changing. 🎤  A transformation in itself is a process with a consequence, there is a continuation after. 🎤  Is...

Listen carefully en leave with fresh inspiration from our new episode of the #21for21 podcast again 🚀  🌏  with Kees Klomp, professor, author and the voice of a different sound in economics. Kees talks with Marco and Carola about existential economics, personal transformation and being vulnerable in order to thrive. About Kees Klomp Kees Klomp is professor of Purpose Economy at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences where he researches and develops an existential approach to economics. He...

Such an inspiring new episode of the #21for21 podcast again 🚀  🌏  with Orlando Wood, award winning Chief Innovation Officer of System1 Group and author of Lemon and Look Out. Orlando talks with Marco and Carola about about technology, media, brands and the transformation of advertising. 🎤  The Internet has caused us to look inwards and downwards. The algorithms push us to the extremes and hollow out the center ground. 🎤  I am not against technology, I am just pro-human. 🎤  Detachment...

An exciting new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Ron Wakkary, professor of design, author and chief of Future Everyday. Ron talks with Marco and Carola about about human-centricity, posthumanist design and creative speculation. 🎤  Design has a role to play, positively, but we have to reflect on how we arrived here and be mindful of the negative effects of design as well 🎤  In my role as design educator, I believe we should really embrace pluralism. Students feel a stronger...

A fascinating new episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Minnie Moll, currently chief executive of the UK Design Council. Minnie talks with Marco and Carola about the role of design, creativity and innovation in the light of 'Design for Planet' and the role of business as a force for transformation. 🎤 The covid pandemic shows us the impact that something invisible can have on our lives. This is truly globally, experiencing this at the same time. This makes very tangible the sense of...

"When you bring together design, technology and media, maybe you can start thinking about the human experience and how we can make it better. It can’t be done in isolation.” “We were caught off-guard in this moment, and it tells us: ‘here are the gaps’.” “We need to constantly re-imagine, re-frame and re-shape… and therefore respond and resolve." “Design is in the space of creating brands, changing behaviours, creating movements. A lot of that is possible by design.” "We want to spread...

Listen to the latest inspiring episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏  with Philip McKenzie, an anthropologist, strategist and dj from Brooklyn New York. Philip talks with Marco and Carola about (r)evolutions, systems change, taking bold steps and diving deep in order to thrive. 🎤  We have to question everything that we do. That is what revolutionaries do. 🎤  It is the people who are not included in the central conversation that question why the world is operating the way it is operating....

Yet again a very interesting and inspiring episode of the #21for21 podcast 🚀  🌏 Karen O'Brien talks with Marco and Carola about what matters, what is equatable and what is sustainable. 🎤  We are being challenged on all fronts today and it's easy to think about what problem to prioritize, but from my perspective it is just one big problem: a relationship problem. 🎤  When we start to realize that 'how we show up in the moment' really matters, we  can really start having a much bigger...

Alan Moore is a designer and business innovator on a mission to help businesses discover their own unique beauty. Working directly with companies and organisations, Alan mentors teams and individuals, delivers inspirational leadership programmes, and advises clients on how to design and build a regenerative business. Alan has shared his knowledge in the form of board and advisory positions, and has taught in institutions including MIT, the Sloan School of Management and INSEAD. Alan is the...

A conversation about being pioneers and catalysts, strong design, eudaimonia, and about reconnecting with nature. Marco and Carola speak with Dr. Anne Stenros about transformation, design and society.  🚀 “Dear Future, I’m Ready” says Anne, “because the Earth is.” 🌏  A thought provoking episode, that unpacks the metaphor of transformation as sailing and the quote by Alan Watts: “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”  About Anne...

Another amazing episode of #21for21: Carola and Marco speak with Joe Pine, about experience, transformation and thriving forever. 🎤 “Human beings crave experiences, crave social situations and being around other people… over the past year we’ve moved from out-there to in-here from experiences to experiences, from social and communal experiences to more private and familial experiences and from physical experiences to digital experiences. But we still want those experiences. As things open...

 In this episode, Lauren Currie speaks about confidence, the power of design, the need for diversity and inclusion and amplifying people’s voices. 🎤  The changes we face are BIG: “There is a lot to process and make sense of. The way I think about it, these paradigm shifts are opportunities for progress.” 🎤  The depth of injustice and inequality is being REVEALED: “The covid-19 crisis has revealed something we could not see before or if we could see it we weren’t paying attention…This...

Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work...

Have you ever told someone, when he or she was facing a challenge or was wondering about a life concept: LOOK AT OR ASK NATURE?. Most of us have. But how much do we actually do that? Biomimicry is the practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges — really asking nature,  you might say. In this episode of Dear Future, I'm Ready #21for21 we are very happy to be talking to  Hugo Araujo, about exactly that: what can we ask nature, and...

In our first episode of the #21for21 series, Carola and Marco talk to Wouter van Noort about personal development in the context of transformation. Wouter explores potential futures & systems change, as well as transcendental purpose & meaning. In the fascinating and rich conversation that follows, Wouter addresses topics such as the role of the pandemic on consciousness around systems change, the role of the self in this transformation, the futurenow concept, the need for...

In this first episode of the new series #21for21 (21 Transformational Leaders for the 21st Century), Your hosts Carola Verschoor and Marco van Hout will share why they started this series and what you can expect in the next episodes. Carola is founder and chief creative officer of Transformational Studio, a transformation design agency with the aim of revolutionizing change through design and making transformation irresistible. Marco is co-founder and creative director of Digital Society...

Interview with John Maeda, design/tech guru/ initiator Design in Tech Report. Recorded at SXSW 2019 in Marriott Hotel, Austin, Texas. DSS caught up with design and tech guru John Maeda to talk about his famous and highly anticipated Design in Tech report: We talked about how design and tech can use the right tools and methods, have the right mindset and catch up, to have positive impact on the sustainable development goals and the planet and society in general. And how can designers and...

This episode covers the Paris Design Summit where professionals, academics, agencies, governments and NGO's gathered and take action for a BETTER WORLD. This was the first gathering of a 12 year initiative to create an effective framework for design, tackling the 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS of the United Nations. These goals include all urgent challenges that we face and want to have solved before the year 2030. They include goals like Zero Poverty, good Health and Wellbeing, Better...