Carlo starts his series of meandering and eclectic conversations with Dan Kieran, the co-founder and CEO of Unbound - the crowd funding publishing phenomenon that is liberating ideas and putting authors and their readers into a direct relationship. Like off piste skiers searching for the best powder snow, Carlo and Dan explore all sorts of unexpected territory. Dan is a writer who describes himself as an accidental entrepreneur, and in this soulful conversation he reveals the personal journey that has taken him from a junior bank teller position in a suburban town via The Idler magazine and writing about Crap Towns and journeys on electric milk floats, to heading up one of London's most exciting companies.     

Episode 1: Making Space with Dan Kieran

Making Space is about the relationships we have with spaces, both physical and intangible. In this podcast, Carlo Navato makes space with a wide range of guests. These are free-form conversations about design, building and creative living. Imaginative spaces help us flourish. They allow room for new possibilities and ideas to emerge. It’s about open spaces and open minds. Carlo is a passionately curious property developer, photographer, and a founding partner of the Do Lectures.

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Rob Poynton is a creative thinker and author whose life and work straddle numerous different fields. He teaches strategic leadership at the University of Oxford, and acts as a facilitator, consultant and coach to a host of companies and clients. His work is at the intersection of leadership, creativity, innovation and branding. He draws on multiple influences including improvisational theatre, play and the science of complexity. He lives between a remote off-grid home he built himself in the mountains of central Spain, and Oxford, England. In this conversation Carlo and Rob cover all sorts of ground including how Rob was drawn into the world of improv., life at the edges and why intersections are important. They discuss creativity, the advantage of simple rules, and where psychology and philosophy overlap. Rob is an erudite, deep thinker with a pin sharp intellect and a wide sweep of knowledge across multiple fields.

Episode 11: Making Space with Rob Poynton

Sadie Morgan is the co-founding director of multi award-winning international architecture and design practice dRMM. She was appointed OBE in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours List and is a Professor at the University of Westminster. She is the youngest ever President of the Architectural Association, is the Design chair for HS2 and is a Commissioner for the UK Government’s National Infrastructure Commission. She is the founder of the Quality of Life Foundation which aims to put well-being at the heart of all new place-making and at the forefront of the housebuilding agenda. In this conversation Carlo and Sadie discuss her wide-ranging work, her open-mindedness borne of an upbringing in a communal environment, and her tireless support for the recognition of women in all aspects of society. They also discuss her decision to hitch-hike back from Spain in 2010 when Eyjafjallajökull erupted in Iceland, and why she gave the dRMM Stirling Prize winning acceptance speech in 2017, from hastings, in fangs.

Episode 10: Making Space with Sadie Morgan

Carlo meets Clare Hieatt, co-founder of The Do Lectures and Hiut Denim, during the build up to the 2019 Do Lectures event on her farm in Wales. Clare shares personal insights into her 30 plus year professional life and business partnership with her husband David, writing her book Do Curious, and creating the unique transformative space which facilitates the magic of the "Do" every year.

Episode 9: Making Space with Clare Hieatt

In this episode Carlo meets Michael Owen, founder of Always Wear Red, an uncompromising menswear brand utilising only the very best materials and makers around the UK. AWR aims to create beautiful products designed and made to last a lifetime. Amongst other things they riff on turning 50 - an occasion that led Michael to start a daily blog - 50odd which has grown into a searingly honest, witty and wise look at life through Michael's glasses. And they end with a very personal exploration of the indelible impression that the film Kes has left on both.

Episode 8: Making Space with Michael Owen

On the eve of the 10th Do Lectures Wales, Carlo discusses the genesis of the event with co-founder David Hieatt. David shares the ideas and inspiration behind the Do Lectures, why and how it came into being, and what he hopes to achieve with it. He also shares rare insights of his life with his wife Clare, and their process in building their much admired brand Howies, and more recently Hiut - a specialist hand-crafted maker of jeans in Cardigan, West Wales.

Episode 1: Making Space with Dan Kieran

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