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.
074. Kevin Kelly: Living with Technology
August 17, 202345:55

074. Kevin Kelly: Living with Technology

TODAY'S GUEST One of the most tragic aspects of the accelerating pace of change, and rapid evolution of new technologies — is that we as humanity have lost our elders. We begin to see older generations as detached from the current world of innovation, and have to discount advice and experiences gain...

026. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie: Community, Ritual, and Creativity
August 10, 202301:22:39

026. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie: Community, Ritual, and Creativity

TODAY'S GUEST Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is an Israeli-born, Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist. He's the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. and the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in NYC, an artist-driven, everybody friendly, God-optional, pop-up experimental community for sacred Jewish...

047. Jerry Colonna: Why Better Humans Make Better Leaders
August 03, 202301:07:05

047. Jerry Colonna: Why Better Humans Make Better Leaders

TODAY'S GUEST   Jerry Colonna is the CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm whose coaches and facilitators are committed to the notion that better humans make better leaders.   For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, an ex...

006. Kathy Davies: Design Your Life to Get Unstuck
July 27, 202301:38:21

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...

062. Vicki Tan: Intuition and Bias
July 20, 202301:09:17

062. Vicki Tan: Intuition and Bias

TODAY'S GUEST   Vicki Tan is a Product Designer, a public speaker, a student of Behavioral Psychology, and a dog mom based in Brooklyn. She currently works at Spotify, and has previously worked at Headspace, Lyft, and Google. She cares deeply about the human aspects of design, and the insights that ...

061. Geci Karuri-Sebina: Our Urban Future
July 13, 202353:50

061. Geci Karuri-Sebina: Our Urban Future

TODAY'S GUEST   Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina is a futurist, urban planning thinker, and the author of Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of Excellence . She's a faculty member at Singularity University South Africa with a focus on urban futures, including smart cities, networks, urban planning, governance a...

052. Dan Formosa: The Joy of Design
June 22, 202301:03:48

052. Dan Formosa: The Joy of Design

TODAY'S GUEST   Dan Formosa consults with companies and organizations worldwide on design and innovation. He was an early proponent of “design for all” (a.k.a. Inclusive Design). He lectures internationally on design, research, and the future of design, and is the recipient of numerous design awards...

057. Greg Hoffman: Emotion by Design
June 15, 202348:01

057. Greg Hoffman: Emotion by Design

TODAY'S GUEST   Greg Hoffman is Nike's former Chief Marketing Officer, a global brand leader, advisor, and speaker, and the author of Emotion by Design: Creative Leadership Lessons From a Life at Nike.   In his book, Greg shares lessons and stories on the power of creativity drawn from almost three ...

058. Richard Bartlett: Decentralized by Design
June 01, 202354:21

058. Richard Bartlett: Decentralized by Design

TODAY'S GUEST   Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels.   During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together — more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or...

053. Irene Au: Bridging Design and Technology
May 25, 202301:10:35

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, 202301:20:28

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, 202301:11:30

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, 202301:20:10

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, 202354:42

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, 202301:36:30

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, 202355:26

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, 202301:34:53

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, 202348:29

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, 202301:11:35

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, 202301:07:57

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...