The Change Makers Podcast

Nicole Calistri is an advocate for the environment-centred design and the co-creator of the Planet Centric Deck. She is also the founder of Envision, a collective of designers, researchers and strategists who work on producing eco-responsible solutions.

Find out more at:

https://envision.london

https://www.trytriggers.com/blogposts/how-to-design-for-the-planet

https://www.trytriggers.com/shop/planet-centric-deck

Contact Nicole: [email protected]

Questions:

01:02 What were the experiences that impacted you the most?

5:38 What is the role of design in facilitating change and the role of a designer?

8:30 How do we change behavior?

12:25 What is environment-centered design?

17:17 What is the Planet-Centric Deck and who should use it?

19:52 What is the feedback from the teams that applied the deck?

12:20 What is the importance of asking "What If" questions in the creation, ideation phase?

24:34 What are the changes that we should start tackling right away?

26:18 Change coming from the industry vs from people

28:22 What is the change or impact that you would like to create through your work?

30:33 Advice for the listeners of this podcast

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Music Credits: INOSSI- Imaginary Love

Nadim Choucair spent a few years as an innovation consultant working at the intersection of the private and public sectors - in a role that is best described as an ecosystem builder. His job was to always answer the question: How might we enable organizations to innovate. He's still working on that question, but with a slightly different focus: How might we enable individuals and organizations to innovate to achieve the SDGs?

Find out more at:

https://medium.com/@NadimChoucair

https://www.wearecabinet.io/

https://globalgoalsjam.org/

Questions:

1:22 What were some experiences that impacted you the most?

4:26 How was your experience studying international relations and diplomacy in regards to the Sustainable Development Goals?

7:24 At our current pace, are we able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?

10:19 Can you share a little bit more about the The Global Goals Jam and its purpose?

16:14 Sustainability by Design or Design for Sustainability?

21:18 What is the importance of collaboration in achieving the SDGs and how can we motivate different players to cooperate in achieving them?

28:49 You are setting up an initiative called 2030 Cabinet. What is it and what do you aim to achieve with it?

32:02 What is the change that you would like to create through your work?

34:48 What can the listeners of this podcast start doing today?

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Music Credits: INOSSI- Wait for you

Valentina Salvi is a service designer whose goal is to improve people’s lives and contribute to shaping meaningful, impactful user experiences.

In her creative facilitator role, Valentina has been planning and leading over 30 Design Sprints and workshops that help her clients empathize with their users and bring value to their lives. Valentina actively writes on her Medium page where she shares her expertise and hands-on insights of her work as a service designer.

https://sprintstories.com/@valentina.v.salvi

Questions:

1:45 Background and impactful personal experiences

6:44 What is service design?

10:55 What makes a good user experience?

16:44 How do you convince your clients about the importance of user research?

20:41 How do you adapt Design Sprints to different client contexts and needs?

26:22 What are the advantages and challenges of the Design Sprint methodology?

32:45 How did you apply service design to social innovation?

38:28 Why is service design a good approach in tackling social innovation challenges?

40:42 What is the change you would like to contribute to?

42:03 What can the listeners of this podcast start doing today?

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Music Credits: INOSSI - Wait for you

David Chislett is a Chief Activator who helps people re-connect with their vision and tap directly into their own creative well. He draws on a lifetime of experience as a poet, musician, author, trainer, and artist to help people and companies discover and express their ideas.

He offers 1-on-1 coaching, workshops, mentoring programs and company activations for organizations that need to be more innovative and respond to the challenges of the 21st century.

Find out more at: www.davidchislett.com

Questions:

1:26 What were some of the most impactful experiences that led you to become who you are today?

5:24 What drove you to be self-employed and just follow your passion?

9:39 What is creativity, why is it important, and how do you train it?

14:07 How can we train creativity in schools?

15:51 Can creativity be extended to finance or statistics which seem like hard based fact fields?

17:46 What will be the role of creativity in the future in regards to tech and the future of work?

21:05 Can the future you are describing happen in our current socio-economic system?

22:38 What are the changes that we need to tackle as soon as possible?

23:37 How can these changes happen on a global level?

24:55 What is the change that you would like to create through your work?

25:40 What can the listeners of this podcast start doing today?

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Music Credits: nymano x saib- night walk

Elif Algu is a pragmatic idealist and the founder of Branding a Better World, a creative impact agency who helps brands create and share their stories of positive impact. Elif strongly believes that we as consumers have so much influence in facilitating change, because our power lies with our wallets and buying decisions, therefore brands need to give us a direction, they need to inspire and convince us that we are making a good, conscious choice.

Questions:

1:22 What is a better world for you?

2:08 The need to start a social impact agency

9:02 Why is branding important?

11:06 What is the importance of storytelling?

12:21 How can small brands compete with multinational corporations?

15:42 What is your opinion on responsible consumption on a global level?

19:42 How was the process of starting your own company?

22:18 Have you experienced extra pressure when you changed towards that impact driven agency?

27:23 How do you choose the brands that your agency is working with?

29:14 Are you also telling hard truths to your clients? What is their feedback?

32:54 Examples of inspirational brands

39:32 What is the world you would like to contribute to?

References:

https://www.weleda.com/international

https://recyclesint.org/

https://www.thevegetarianbutcher.com/

https://brandingabetterworld.com

Nadia Piet is a driven multipotentiality currently finding herself at the intersection of service design, technology, and strategy. For the last 6 months, she has been researching the intersection of AI and design and looking into the questions of:

How can we democratize access to AI and leverage its capabilities to create a positive impact?

How can we design for human values in algorithmic systems?

The outcome of the research is a toolkit for designers to help them design for machine intelligence and to inspire people to leverage machine learning within the context of the users. The deck will be available for free to download on http://aimeets.design/

Questions:

1:54 Personal story and journey

6:38 Getting comfortable with change

10:30 Designing for human values in algorithmic systems

16:06 What makes a good user experience?

20:00 How can companies implement a user-centered approach?

26:05 The responsibility of a designer

29:22 Balance between creative responsibility and business revenue

38:35 How will AI change the job market?

44:19 A polarised view on technology

45:11 We tend to personify AI

49:56 The intersection of AI and design

55:48 Personal aspiration

References:

http://nadiapiet.com/

https://diopd.org/

Mariel Jumpa is a driven social entrepreneur passionate about building communities. She has founded Slow Fashion World, a global platform and conscious agency empowering, connecting and enabling collaborations for social and ethical companies. Tune in this episode for insights on cultural appropriation in the fashion industry, the artisan community and its relationship to global fashion, consumerism, slow fashion, and example of ethical, conscious brands that are making a difference.

https://slowfashionworld.com/

Questions:

1:53 Introduction: the journey of connecting with the fashion industry

6:20 The biggest problems in the fashion industry

10:50 How can the local communities of artisans compete with the global brand?

14:21 Lack of sustainability in fashion: an industry or a consumer problem?

17:18 What is the role of the government in regulating the fashion industry?

20:16 The social impact of the fashion industry

23:48 Greenwashing

26:28 Sending second-hand clothes to poorer communities aggravates the problem

30:39 What is slow fashion?

34:26 Examples of sustainable fashion brands

https://www.thereformation.com/

http://www.peopletree.de/

https://www.everlane.com/

38:32 A vision for the future of fashion

References:

https://conscious-closet-guide.com/

http://katefletcher.com/

https://hmfoundation.com/

Further Reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/aug/20/greenwashing-environmentalism-lies-companies

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44968561

About Yancey Strickler:

Yancey is the co-founder of Kickstarter and author of ’This could be our future’. Yancey is currently on a mission to end financial maximization as the dominant force, and as the dominant value that guides our decisions and actions by 2050. In this interview, we discuss the expansion of our current set of values so that we start making decisions for long term sustainability, for reasons of community needs, for reasons of fairness. Yancey strongly believes that we have the ability to affect the largest possible things, that the deepest possible assumptions of society are changeable by us.

Jump right in:

1:21 What are the values that you discuss in your upcoming book that we should build our society on?

9:55 Away from financial maximization as the dominant value

14:28 A global philosophy applied in local ways

20:18 Is it worth pursuing progress for the sake of progress?

27:32 What do you think is the future of work?

31:55 Kickstarter and crowdfunding: a look into the future

37:56 Investors ask good questions

44:20 What is your destination? The impact you would like to create?

References:

https://www.ystrickler.com/

https://www.kickstarter.com/

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116493/this-could-be-our-future/9780753552834.html

Music Credits:

KONSTENTYN- 早くお金を返せ (2019)

Nanette Hogervorst is an entrepreneur active at the intersection of fashion, sustainability, and communication. She has been raised by parents who have lived in the Philippines for years. They saw and experienced what it is like when water, energy, and food are not always present in abundance. Her upbringing (in the Netherlands) in combination with her own interest in social issues has led to her being active in youth politics for two years. After her communication studies, she did a number of projects abroad, including in South Africa at an HIV / AIDS Clinic and an internship at Amnesty International Philippines.

Currently, Nanette is dedicating most of her time to the development of her fashion platform Our World with the aim to accelerate the sustainability of the fashion industry. She believes that consumers play an important role in this. Our World therefore wants to inspire them in a substantiated way, challenge them and offer alternatives to make more sustainable clothing choices.

https://www.ow-ourworld.nl/

Questions:

1:15 Introduction and Background

07:04 Our World Platform

18:01 The decision to pursue the passion project full time

21:14 The biggest problems in the fashion industry

24:48 Lack of sustainability in fashion: an industry or a consumer problem?

34:54 Sustainable mindset

36:48 Examples of sustainable fashion brands

https://studiojux.com/

https://www.muji.eu/

https://www.thereformation.com/

46:49 Impact in the context of sustainable fashion

52:47 Learnings from researching sustainable fashion

Further Reading:

https://www.fashionrevolution.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/rana-plaza

https://truecostmovie.com/

Matilda Sundåker is a Swede based in Amsterdam who after a few years of working with companies such as Hyper Island, Adidas and Vice took the step into the freelance world and found her own strategy consultancy. Matilda believes that empowered people empower others - resulting in happier and more effective individuals, teams and companies. So she has made her purpose to enable and empower individuals to live purposeful lives.

https://www.thecultureshift.me/

Resources mentioned:

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Questions:

01:06 The story of 3 shifts

12:40 How come you were hiding that you did the first career shift?

14:40 Is it worth “sacrificing” a few years in a place that you don’t like for “freedom” after?

17:49 How did Hyper Island have an impact on you? And how do you feel HI is different from traditional education?

21:20 Could you see the HI approach to education applied on a bigger scale?

24: 16 Being an employee vs being a freelancer

29:53 the role of a strategist and the future of strategy

31:07 Why do we need to talk about a culture shift?

35:00 What does it mean to be empowered?

38:48 Impact & Storytelling

42:39 What is the change that you would like to create or see in your lifetime?