The DRS Policy and Governance SIG's podcast, Design and Society, has a new episode that brings together Rachel Cooper, Ezio Manzini and Don Norman to discuss the relationship between design, policy and governance. The episode was recorded at the DRS International Conference at Northeastern University in Boston, MA in June 2024, with Federico Vaz and Scott Schmidt as hosts. You can listen to the episode here on Spotify.
Design for Society is a podcast about real world innovation at the intersection of design, technology, government, and business. It is hosted by Scott Schmidt, a Lecturer at Georgetown University in design management and PoGo SIG Convenor. Each episode of Design for Society focuses on a different researcher, practitioner, or educator by examining firsthand their career and thoughts on a world in rapid transition.
ABOUT THE GUESTS
Rachel Cooper OBE is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University. She is a Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design-led research centre conducting applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions, and also Chair of Lancaster institute for the Contemporary Arts.
Ezio Manzini is Distinguished Professor on Design for Social Innovation a ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Barcelona, Spain; Honorary Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy; and Guest Professor at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. He is also the founder of DESIS: an international network of schools of design specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability.
Don Norman is retired retired from the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Cognitive Science Department. He is a cofounder of CHI and received its lifetime achievement award, a fellow of numerous societies such as ACM, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Design Research Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), in the Engineering division.