Design

Walk the Talk with Ganesh Venkataraman

Recorded on 2017-03-23

A conversation with Ganesh Venkataraman, the new Sound Designer in the creative disturbance team. Ganesh walks us through his interesting audio engineering journey spread over 7 years

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Migration of Ideas – Islamic Art Revival Series

Recorded on 2016-09-16

Roger Malina in conversation with Shafaq Ahmad, the art director for the Islamic Art Revival Series, and Mona Kafeel, the Chief Operating Officer at the Texas Muslim Woman’s Foundation(TWMF). Mona Kafeel addresses the importance of TWMF along with it’s multiple objectives and shares her history of work in landscape design. Shafaq Ahmad takes us through […]

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Art, Science and Open Electromagnetic Spectrum Culture

Recorded on 2016-07-08

Sharath Chandra Ram describes his work in art, design and open science, and information culture. He maintains the Signal Lab at the Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. He describes his workshop in open radio astronomy that he held at the International Astronomical Union Commission C2, at the Parque Explora in […]

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Layers of Innovation and Design

Recorded on 2016-05-16

In this podcast Azadeh Abrishami discusses design, innovation, and research with Roger Malina. Azadeh Abrishami talks about her new start-up company and the effective design work that it is creating. She also discusses her past with academia where she studied under Bob Fee in both industrial engineering, industrial design, and design management.

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STEAM: Bespoke Chicken or Curated Brisket?

Recorded on 2016-02-29

Robert Fee, Paul Fishwick and Roger Malina discuss the current discussion on the need to integrate art and design into science and engineering, STEM to STEAM. In particular the different ways that design is understood , from component design to context design. They can teach design using different approaches from problem, project, object, and topic […]

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From Eugenics to Synbio Design

Recorded on 2016-01-11

By looking at the history of Eugenics and Design, Christina Cogdell questions the cultural values we affect to biologically designed artifacts and how humans, through that process, may become mere products. She also takes into consideration the evolution of technology in relation to the history of energy and the horizontal gene transfers that occur between […]

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Perspectives on Games for Change

Recorded on 2014-12-01

UT Dallas MFA student Peter Wonica and MA student Richard Wirth meet to discuss the topic and movement known as “Games for Change”, in light of their recent participation in the Meaningful Play conference. http://backward-compatible.com/

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