Modern Talk by things+

Nuria Solsana represents the new design industry standard. Not only is her approach multi-disciplinary and she navigates between multiple cultures  and speaks fluently several languages but she is also at home in both a design studio and in the lecture halls. Having made her career in consulting she now splits her time between her native Barcelona and Helsinki where she is a professor of practice at Aalto University. On Things+ podcast Nuria shares the story of how she became herself and what gets her excited about in design.

Meet Jethro Sercombe, a social impact designer from Perth Australia. Jethro works at the social enterprise Innovation Unit on issues like social care, mental health and homelessness. Jethro became a service designer after first having a career as a social worker. In design he discovered the tools and the methods that can create impact at scale. At the Things+ podcast Jethro talks about what is social impact design, how it it done and where it affects change. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jethrosercombe/

https://www.innovationunit.org/

George Aye is a self  declared pissed-off optimist and an engineer on the mend. He runs the Greater Good Studio, a Chicago based social impact design agency with his co-founder Sara Cantor. On this episode we talk about why social impact design is needed, how it is done and who are involved in the process. We ask George to share his learnings on being a designer and hear his point-of view on the globalization of design methods that have been adopted globally without any local and cultural adjustmets. You will also learn how to monitor your inner pissed-off optimist and know when it is time to speak up.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeaye/

https://greatergoodstudio.com/

Design in Portugal? Who better to shed light on this than Tiago Nunes from With Company, a Lisbon based design firm he is the co-founder and managing partner. Tiago talks to Things+ about his  journey as a designer, which has taken him from Lisbon to Berlin to study at the Hasso Plattner Insitute and to Australia before returning to his native Portugal. We compare notes on design maturity in Portugal and Finland and talk about the dominant mindset and thinking. While 2020 has turned the world upside down - these are Tiago's words - Portuguese resilience has been tested before and they've seen worse and from the scarcity evolved a thriving start-up and self-starter economy that is now helping to digitalise the essential services. Now designers are needed to solve pandemic related challenges that are not just wicked and complex but urgent!

More on Tiago Nunes:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tgnunes/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/with-company/

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What is it like to be the first in the marketplace? Judit Kertesz, the managing partner of Frontira, a Hungary based strategic design agency talks about  founding Hungary's first service design agency.  As a teacher of service design at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and an active consultant Judit Kertesz has an unique vantage point to discuss the evolution and growing demand of service design and design thinking in Hungary. Her company Frontira represents a new kind of pan-European creative collaboration where two equally talented but differently focused agencies have formed an east-west partnership offering strategic design consulting at both ends. 

For more information:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/judithkertesz/

www.frontira.com 

Things+ is doing a globe scan to hear how our fellow  design doers and thinkers and human centered strategists are  experiencing the 'new normal' and how they see the future evolving. Our  first guest is endeneer and author of the book Ends. Joe MacLeod, he  introduces us to the thinking and theory of designing ends and why  focusing also on ends matter.

Website: www.andend.co