Irina and Rohit chat about critique culture in design, Netflix’s Blow Away Season 2 featuring RISD professor Chris Taylor and mid-century modern knock offs.

Correction: Although Le Corbusier did design the city of Chandigarh, it was Charles and Ray Eames’ Report that led to the creation of the National Institute of Design (NID).

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Irina and Rohit chat about the Industrial Design program at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Design ethics and Pink Floyd's lost studio album.

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Rohit talks about alchemy, glass blowing & the role of experimentation in his design process and how unconventional methods lead to surprising and fulfilling outcomes.

Rohit talks about design research and how unconventional methods lead to the best outcomes and build solutions like Uber & Airbnb.

00:00 Introduction to Design Process

04:50 Field Research on a Chicken Farm

09:20 Applying for Design School without a Design Background

10:38 Design Research, Problem Statements & How Uber was Conceived

15:50 Challenges Faced During Field Research in India & Dealing with Untruthful Responses

Rohit talks about Duncan Trussell's guided meditation, Cockroach Farms and their potential in dealing with landfill waste, Kim Kardashian's butt-inspired pants by Beate Karlsson and Answers design questions sent in by listeners.

Rohit talks about Cockroach Farms and their potential in dealing with landfill waste, Kim Kardashian's butt-inspired pants by Beate Karlsson and Answers design questions sent in by listeners.

00:00 California Lockdowns and Losing it 

03:39 Cockroach Farms 

17:48 Kim's butt-inspired pants by Beate Karlsson 

21:47 Listener Question:When is a design finished?

Rohit talks to Dr. Alekhya Majumdar about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, Cancer research & Replacing humanized lab mice with artifical humans.

00:00 The New Era in Vaccine Design

04:00 Why The Vaccine Might Not Work & Covid-19 Mutations

19:20 Would You Take the Pfizer COVID19 Vaccine?

26:45 Mass Manufacturing At-Home Ventilators

31:50 3D Printing In a Cancer Research Lab

36:15 How Does Cancer Affect Us?

51:20 The Ethics of Humanized Lab Mice and replacing them with artificial test humans

1:05:00 CRISPR and Rohit's Industrial Design Project Generation Alpha.

Rohit Rambles about stone tools, the origin of design & Thomas Thwaites.

Rohit Rambles about starting this podcast, Covid-19 & the origin of objects.

Rohit rambles about Donald Trump leaving, Dr. Martens boots and Casting Glass in the Hot Shop.