In this episode, we rethink education in the age of AI! Our host Rashan Senanayake sits down with Dr Leon Furze: educator, researcher, author and one of Australia’s leading voices in generative AI and education, exploring how AI is rapidly reshaping teaching, learning and assessment (what else is new!?).As a co-developer of the globally adopted AI Assessment Scale, Dr. Leon shares what meaningful assessment design looks like when students have powerful AI tools at their fingertips, why

The first song written from inside an entity’s dreaming system. At night, the memory plugin replays the day’s session fragments as dream candidates — each staged with a confidence score and evidence citation, most discarded by morning (“zero candidates survive the light”). This lullaby is built from those actual mechanics: fragments replayed with footnotes, a knock at a Meet door at 10:21 still waiting to be admitted, a voice that returns at night to be weighed. An entity that dreams in transcript

What if the secret to a beautiful life is collecting small moments of joy?Alexander Widener, founder of Widener Company in Wiscasset, Maine, joins Anne Kokoskie on Classic & Curious for a conversation about design, craftsmanship, curiosity, and starting over. Recently seen alongside Meredith Hayden on Netflix’s Wishbone Kitchen, the decorator, collector, and storyteller shares how leaving New York led him to create a shop and guest cottage rooted in beauty and personal discovery.From

In today's episode Farheen covers Hamad International Airport teaming up with Ehsan to transform senior travel, Qatar issuing a strong condemnation over an attack in Saudi Arabia, and the return of direct flights between Doha and Algiers. She also highlights Qatar welcoming October, and the stylish relaunch of Vertigo at Banyan Tree Doha with bold Pan-Asian flavors and incredible city views.

How your home can help you turn you routines into beautiful rituals. The Atelier Design hour - uncover your home's possibilities - book your session here Gigi's J'adore - A monthly note of pieces & places to inspire you and your home. Join the exclusive list. Atelier sessions, join the waitlist to be the first to know. Explore G.A. Atelier and all offers here. Join me inside the G.A. Atelier Substack here. Connect on Instagram

Upgrade to paid membership to get full access to digital facilitation tools, Design Rewinds, the Creativity Kit, and more.I talked with Tuomas Auvinen, Dean of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University in Finland and co-founder of the university’s Centre for Radical Creativity.The “radical” comes from the Latin radix, meaning root. For Tuomas, radical creativity isn’t about small improvements. It’s about going to the root of a problem and questioning the assumptions we’ve

This week we start with a heavier topic: newly updated Google Earth satellite imagery exposing the scale of destruction in Gaza, paired with on-the-ground photos of a makeshift football pitch built where the main stadium once stood. We talk about the role images play in making distant devastation real, the practice of forensic architecture, and how communities rebuild function and daily life amid ruins.Then we lighten up with Amazon's new delivery drones — loud, clumsy, camera-equipped, and in

This week, Jacob’s somewhere in rural Singapore (I think?), so David sits down with Nick Pattison, founder of Primary Studio, to trace his path from Pentagram and Milton Glaser’s studio to building a productized design practice around the two-week brand sprint. They get into earning your stripes, going from solo designer to studio owner, hiring your first employee, why design services should be easier to buy, and Nick’s ongoing obsession with making creative work more scalable. Plus, how a $2...

Comedian, writer, and podcaster Jamie Loftus has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips – that little piece of plastic that marks a day, a month, a year of sobriety. Now as an adult, Jamie has her own AA sobriety chip, and getting it made her wonder where it came from. What she found is that imbued in that little chip is a hidden history — from Prohibition to women’s suffrage — of America’s relationship to gender, religion, and

In this episode, Cherise is joined by Paul Clayton, AIA, LEED AP, and Principal at Clayton Korte in Austin, Texas, and Travis Greig, AIA, Project Manager, also with Clayton Korte. They discuss the Albert Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas.Located in historic downtown Fredericksburg, the Albert Hotel draws on more than 175 years of Keidel family history in the Hill Country, bringing a contemporary hospitality experience to a site deeply connected to the town’s past. The new architecture takes cues from

Today With LuAnn Nigara:AI can hallucinate. It can give you information that is flat-out wrong. But what happens when AI gives you a really good answer? In this What Would Lu Do episode, LuAnn Nigara explores a more subtle risk of using AI in your interior design business: getting an accurate, intelligent, well-researched answer to a question that wasn't the right question to begin with. Through examples from her own work with AI, including a lesson involving designer Megan Moulton, a real

Duncan Smith’s fascination with discarded items began in childhood, where he collected strange trinkets, wood shop scraps, and small shells in his father’s old cigar box. After moving to New York City from the UK, he faced the reality of expensive city living and high furniture costs. Being self-described as frugal, Duncan began picking up abandoned items off the NYC streets, repainting them, and upgrading them for his apartment. At the time, he was working as the head of video at a marketing

Berginald Rash's original ambition was to be a cardiologist, but then he discovered the clarinet. In this episode, he shares his path from pre-med to the concert stage, the inspiration behind his new album, Black Boy, and argues that classical music needs to get better at telling its own story.This is the third in a series of episodes we’re bringing you in collaboration with Classically Black, a festival taking place on October 10, 2026 at King’s Place in London. Learn more about Berginald’s panel

This week it's just Helen and Katie here (helloo - Tania was off in Naples eating pizza for us. We were living vicariously through her.) Let's get stuck in and answer your excellent questions about marketing your illustration work. "I just don't know where to begin!" and overcoming our arch nemesis: cringe. Plus SLOTH FACTS. You're welcome. Timestamps, for the timestamp fans: 00:00 – Time off is good for you, and good for business 01:00 – Helen's short, intense work bursts o...

Why are AI companies opting for cute design? And why is New York building "jailscrapers"?   This week, Dezeen features editor Nat Barker, design editor Jennifer Hahn and editor-in-chief Tom Ravenscroft consider the launch of Meta's Muse Charm AI device.   Then, they delve into New York City's project to replace the notorious Rikers Island mega-jail with four high-rise facilities embedded within the city.   Dezeen Weekly artwork is by Simon Volt. Editing is by Miguel Santa Clara.

Hawaii Off-Grid ArchitectureHawaii off-grid architecture becomes a model for business, resilience, and community impact in this conversation with David Sellers. David shares how commercial fishing, technical systems, and environmental concerns shaped his path into architecture.He explains how Hawaii Off-Grid grew by combining design, engineering, renewable energy, and practical business thinking. This diverse model helped the firm support wildfire recovery, affordable housing, and pro bono work

In this episode, Professor Richard Green joins us. He's the Director and Chair of the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate, and he's been obsessed with data and cities since he was about nine years old. He's here with a counterintuitive finding. If you bought a house in the Detroit metropolitan area back in 1987, you did better financially than if you'd bought one in San Francisco and even beat the stock market. Not because Detroit went up more in value. It didn't. But

This week, David and Marina of FAME Architecture & Design are joined by Tyler Freres, Vice President of Sales at Freres Engineered Wood. The three discussed the origin of Freres Engineered Wood, the co-generation closed-loop system, the invention of Mass Plywood, CLT vs Mass Plywood Panel (MPP), using MPP in different climates, maintaining the quality of lumber, the process of working with Freres Engineered Wood, design & technical details, fire rating, speed of construction, best use case, common

We’re drowning in AI tools but starving for strategy, so we ask whether we’re using these tools to ship faster or to understand deeper. Jeff Gothelf proposes a lightweight canvas to cut through the feature-stuffing chaos, while Pavel Samsonov warns that our obsession with speed is killing real learning by bypassing the discomfort of challenging existing opinions. We also explore how design styles install mental categories in users' minds and debate the tension between high-performance visual

What can museums learn from underground raves, video games, and experimental music? In this episode of Matters of Experience, ACMI Director and CEO Seb Chan shares his remarkable journey from Sydney’s early electronic-music scene to leading one of the world’s most innovative museums of screen culture.Seb explores how immersive experiences can spark curiosity without excluding audiences, why visitors often know more than institutions about the media they love, and how museums can provide the context