Remake

Remake

Eran Dror

Eran Dror

Remake is a podcast about Design, Systems, and Society. And I'm Eran Dror, a product designer and researcher of eastern religions. In each episode I interview someone who’s trying to change our lives for the better in some meaningful way, whether through a new product, new venture, or new way of looking at the world, and I try to understand how they came to it, what makes them tick, and what we all can learn from them. I truly believe Design is strategic, that it goes to the core, that it's at the root of what it means to be human. In this show we explore an expansive view of design, and cover Systems Thinking, Social Innovation, Secular spirituality, and the future.
053. Irene Au: Bridging Design and Technology
May 25, 2023x
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01:10:35161.85 MB

053. Irene Au: Bridging Design and Technology

TODAY'S GUEST   Irene Au is Design Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with early-, mid-, and late-stage startup CEOs. She is dedicated to raising the strategic value of design and user research within software companies through better methods, practices, processes, leadership, talent, and q...

054. Jay McClelland: Networks That Learn
May 18, 2023x
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01:20:28184.62 MB

054. Jay McClelland: Networks That Learn

TODAY'S GUEST   Jay McClelland is a Computational Cognitive Neuroscientist and one of the founding fathers of the field of neural networks and deep learning in the 1980s, which led directly to today's explosion in AI and machine learning algorithms that are transforming our lives. He is the Lucie St...

073. Eli Green: Gender Beyond the Binary
May 11, 2023x
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01:11:30164.04 MB

073. Eli Green: Gender Beyond the Binary

TODAY'S GUEST Today we're talking about transgender issues. Specifically, what should the rest of us know about transgender people? This is a topic that I admit I know very little about, but one that feels important at the very least, if one wants to avoid causing unnecessary pain. Language itself s...

055. Tobias Rees: Transforming the Human
May 04, 2023x
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01:20:10183.75 MB

055. Tobias Rees: Transforming the Human

TODAY'S GUEST Dr. Tobias Rees is CEO of Transformations of the Human School, and was formerly the William Dawson Chair at McGill University and the Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities at the Parsons School of Design. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and holds degrees i...

037. Karoli Hindriks: Redesigning the Passport
March 30, 202354:42125.51 MB

037. Karoli Hindriks: Redesigning the Passport

TODAY'S GUEST Karoli Hindriks is the CEO and founder of Jobbatical, a startup Forbes named one of Europe's 10 Most Exciting Technology SMEs for 2018. Jobbatical is working on removing the friction of international relocation by making immigration processes seamless through technology.   In 2020 the ...

017. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf: Open Up to Innovation
March 23, 202301:36:30221.33 MB

017. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf: Open Up to Innovation

TODAY’S GUEST   Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf is an Associate Professor at NYU Stern. She is also a faculty associate at Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science. Her work received the prestigious INSPIRE grant from the National Science Foundation, has been recognized to have a strong impact on industry, and...

046. Shari Davis: The Power of Participatory Budgeting
March 16, 202355:26127.24 MB

046. Shari Davis: The Power of Participatory Budgeting

TODAY'S GUEST   Shari Davis is a TED speaker, a participatory budgeting facilitator, and as she defines it, a recovering local government employee. She joined the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) after nearly 15 years of service and leadership in local government. As director of youth engagemen...

003. Shahar Avin: Playing for AI’s Future?
March 09, 202301:34:53217.17 MB

003. Shahar Avin: Playing for AI’s Future?

TODAY’S GUEST   Dr. Shahar Avin is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge University, focusing primarily on risks associated with artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms.   EPISODE SUMMARY   We discuss: Shahar’s unique approach o...

072. Leah Ziliak: The Coliving Cause
March 02, 2023x
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072. Leah Ziliak: The Coliving Cause

TODAY'S GUEST   Today, we're talking about coliving.   I've long believed that paying attention to the fact that humans evolved to live in tribes, as opposed to isolated nuclear families, was the key to unlocking a tremendous amount of latent needs, wellbeing, and happiness. Today, a convergence of ...

022. Jordan Ellenberg: Math, Geometry and Life
February 23, 202301:11:35164.31 MB

022. Jordan Ellenberg: Math, Geometry and Life

TODAY'S GUEST   Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking . His new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, c...

036. Leidy Klotz: When Less is More
February 16, 202301:07:57155.79 MB

036. Leidy Klotz: When Less is More

TODAY'S GUEST Dr. Leidy Klotz is the Copenhaver Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, where he is appointed in the Schools of Engineering, Architecture, and Business. He co-founded and co-directs the university's Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, which engages and supports appli...

023. David Peter Stroh: Systems, Design, and Social Change
February 09, 202301:02:45144.11 MB

023. David Peter Stroh: Systems, Design, and Social Change

TODAY'S GUEST   David Peter Stroh is the bestselling author of Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide for Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results .   For the past 40 years, David has helped leaders to apply systems thinking to organiza...

071. Donald Robertson: On Stoicism and Outrage
February 02, 2023x
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071. Donald Robertson: On Stoicism and Outrage

TODAY'S GUEST   Today, we talk about anger.   Everywhere you look, it feels like outrage and anger are on the rise. Populist politicians win elections based on popular anger, and when they lose, they claim their elections had been stolen to further sow outrage. Social media seems to feed on and ampl...

013. Donatella Caggiano: Designing a Return Home
January 26, 202301:53:49260.85 MB

013. Donatella Caggiano: Designing a Return Home

TODAY’S GUEST   Donatella Caggiano is a Global Creativity Hacker. With her methodology crossing design, storytelling, and strategy, she works at applying creativity to processes of change and transformation for brands, communities and people.   She made a crucial decision to leave the high powered ...

070. Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy: The Design Practice
January 19, 2023x
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070. Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy: The Design Practice

TODAY'S GUEST   Today, we talk about the practice of design, and how designers who learn to work with and understand technology can bring a humanistic, creative perspective to technology that can truly transform our understanding of what it can do. I've long believed that advanced technology can be ...

006. Kathy Davies: Design Your Life to Get Unstuck
January 12, 202301:38:21225.08 MB

006. Kathy Davies: Design Your Life to Get Unstuck

TODAY’S GUEST   Kathy Davies wears many hats - she’s a Design Lecturer at Stanford University. She's the Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design lab, where she and her team have trained 150 universities globally to use the life design processes on their campuses to help students design, proto...

044. Bayo Akomolafe: Activism Beyond Words and Agendas
January 05, 202301:05:34150.44 MB

044. Bayo Akomolafe: Activism Beyond Words and Agendas

TODAY'S GUEST   Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is an academic lecturer, a spiritual leader, a disillusioned activist, and the author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home .   He was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Soo...

039. Max Rashbrooke: Time to Upgrade Democracy?
December 29, 202201:03:39146.07 MB

039. Max Rashbrooke: Time to Upgrade Democracy?

TODAY'S GUEST Max Rashbrooke's TED Talk on upgrading democracy has touched a nerve, and has been viewed over 1 million times in a matter of months. He's a Wellington-based writer and public intellectual, with twin interests in economic inequality and democratic renewal. His latest book is Too Much M...

028. Alan Lightman: Physics and the Rarity of Life
December 22, 202244:30102.31 MB

028. Alan Lightman: Physics and the Rarity of Life

TODAY'S GUEST   Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist and social entrepreneur. He served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT, and was the first person at MIT to receive dual faculty appointments in science and in the humanities. Currently, he serves as professor for the practice of the hum...

069. Adia Gooden: On Feeling Worthy
December 15, 2022x
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069. Adia Gooden: On Feeling Worthy

TODAY'S GUEST   Today, we talk about worthiness.   Worthiness, and the lack of it, is something that's been a primary part of my struggles to start sharing more of my thoughts and beliefs, to allow myself to assume a leadership role in business and in other areas, and to search for an enduring roman...