While The Design of Business | The Business of Design is between seasons, we wanted to share with you a recent conversation we think you will find valuable. Previous DB|BD co-hosts Jessica Helfand and Ellen McGirt sat down with Design Observer podcast host and founder of Other Tomorrows, Lee Moreau and Cindy Chastain who leads customer experience and design at Mastercard.For three days in March, Design Observer and Mastercard leaders gathered with some sixty people—designers and scholars, social entrepreneurs and independent consultants, creative leaders and senior practitioners from across a range of industries—to discuss the current state of everything from collaboration and craft to cultural transformation, technological innovation, and the social and systemic changes impacting the ways we live and work.The Design of Business | The Business of Design will be back soon with season eleven! To hear more from our archive, find us on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook is a guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities.To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

Kaleena Sales and Omari Souza discuss past episodes featuring Kunal Kapoor and Dori Tunstall.To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall is the Dean of the Faculty of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design.To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

The Design of Business | The Business of Design is taking a mid season hiatus, but new episodes will be dropping in September. In the meantime, we wanted to share a different show from Design Observer, The Futures Archive. The season finale of its second season will drop this coming Thursday, August 18th.The Futures Archive is a podcast that looks at the history of human-centered design with a critical eye to its future. In each episode, we begin with an object, interrogating the motives and methods that put people—and their complex needs and desires, at the center of the design process.On this episode: What are the relationships between design and pleasure? And how can we design the most pleasurable experiences? Lee Moreau and Rachel Lehrer discuss the disco ball and the importance of embodied design.To hear more from our DBBD archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

While we are busy making season ten of The Design of Business | The Business of Design, here's the first episode from the new season of The Futures Archive. So what are the relationships between design and pleasure? And how can we design the most pleasurable experiences? Lee Moreau and Rachel Lehrer discuss the disco ball and the importance of embodied design with additional insights from Änne Söll, Nadine Hubbs, Gary Hunt, and David Rose. To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

The Design of Business | The Business of Design will be back with season 10 and new hosts soon! In the mean time, we think you might like the newest podcast from Design Observer: The Futures Archive. Our new podcast looks at the history of human-centered design with a critical eye to its future. We'd love for you to subscribe, and you can do so at Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app.Do you remember when you learned to brush your teeth? On this episode of The Futures Archive Lee Moreau and Harry West discuss the toothbrush, toothbrushing, and over-learned behaviors. With insights from National Museum of Dentistry Curator Dr. Scott Swank, Kirsten Ostherr + Jadalia Britto.