Community can be defined as a feeling of fellowship with others, the result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. Creating heart felt wedding and lifestyle photography for people of color and the LGBTG+ community is what Cristal Veronica does with her art. Listen in to learn more about why the connection between photographer and subject is so critical, and how that connection creates greater community.

Want to know the upside of the impact of Covid19 on the workplace? Join Gerry Taylor and Nathan Hurley from Orangebox for a truly upbeat conversation about their Smartworking research, the gift of time to think and their intention to bring people back into the workplace with vitality, with new energy and positivity.

Nearly 80 million people will need senior housing in the next 20 years and design models are evolving to impact whole person wellness. In our conversation with senior housing design leader, Leslie Moldow, architectural principle with Perkins Eastman, she shares her experience, her energy and her commitment to developing architecture for senior living that creates a strong sense of community, wellbeing, and a strong social impact.

What behaviors, technologies and environments might keep us safe and connected in the workplace today, tomorrow and into the future? Learn some practical tips in our conversation with Brandon Cook, founder of the Workplace 2030 initiative and Dr. Maureen Miller, consulting epidemiologist/medical anthropologist from Columbia University. This will make captivate you.

Leader + Designer Susie Wise shares her ideas about design for belonging, a powerful way to think about the human connections and feelings we want to create within our groups and our communities. Listen to a story of exploration and tool crafting, of a journey leading to awareness and lifelong commitment, and of the recognition that belonging is a way to define the powerful, creative and nurturing connections we hope for in our learning environments and many other structures within our society.

What would a world without prisons look like? Can we build the infrastructure to end mass incarceration by addressing it at its root causes and using the tools of architecture and real estate? Deanna Van Buren shares with us the mission, vision and work of Designing Justice Designing Spaces to create peacemaking environments.

Colleges and universities face unprecedented social, demographic, and technological shifts. Change is constant: how students learn and access services, how faculty teach and conduct research, how staff work. Lower engagement and satisfaction scores are also present in education today. Listen to Elliot Felix share how brightspot strategy helps institutions meet these challenges with innovative tools, a proven process, and a talented team.

When Williams-Sonoma saw the potential in crossing from living spaces into work spaces, they partnered their West Elm modern home furnishings with Steelcase to create the fastest growing new brand, West Elm Work. Learn about the design, new business strategy, and growth curve with Paulo Kos, West Elm Work VP Design, and Cheryl Carpenter, West Elm Work VP Business.

Born in Denmark, online B2C lifestyle business Bolia, celebrates New Scandinavian design interpreted by international designers. Two decades into global sales, Bolia introduces a multisensory retail experience complete with exclusive chocolate, playlists, and coffee, and introduces ‘resimercial’ offerings with a global Steelcase partnership.

When Blu Dot founders wanted to buy well designed affordable furniture as recent architecture grads in the ‘90’s, none was available. John Christakos and Maurice Blanks tell us the story of helping to found a design/manufacturing company to build their own, and offer it to the market. 20 years later, these Cooper-Hewitt Design Award winners have thousands of items in their catalog, and stores around the country.