Cognitive Snap

I talk to Orlando Lovell about how she uses cake as her medium of design to tell important stories and why, even for designers, the medium is the message.

Orlando is an interdisciplinary designer whose main medium is cake. You can read her book, CAKE - A Research here. See more of her: http://orlandolovell.com/

Also in the episode:

Marshall McLuhan and his books Understanding Media and The Medium is the Massage. Audio clips of his lectures and TV appearances are taken from mywebcowtube

Correction: I say that the quote from Eating for Victory is by Emily Bentley. The author is actually Amy Bentley from NYU.

Quotes from:

• Eating for Victory Amy Bentley, NYU
• Fair division: From cake cutting to dispute resolution. Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor.

Music for this episode is by Text Me Records/Grandbankss, Anna Domini Beats, Wayne Jones and Patrick Patrikios.

As promised, the English translation of the Audio Guide to Strolling by Maximilian Ritz.
Even though the audio guide was made for a specific place in Munich, the Donnersbergerbrücke, I urge you to try out the audio guide with the non-locations in your own life.

To hear why Max made the audio guide, what he thinks of mobility today and why we should look past objective metrics in our life and the design process, check out the second episode of Cognitive Snap, Walkability with Maximilian Ritz

Translated and presented with permission from Maximilian Ritz.

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As promised, the Audio Guide to Strolling by Maximilian Ritz.
Even though the audio guide was made for a specific place in Munich, the Donnersbergerbrücke, I urge you to try out the audio guide with the non-locations in your own life.

To hear why Max made the audio guide, what he thinks of mobility today and why we should look past objective metrics in our life and the design process, check out the second episode of Cognitive Snap, Walkability with Maximilian Ritz

Produced by, and presented with permission from, Maximilian Ritz.

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When we talk about mobility, we usually talk about cars and trains, maybe bicycles. But Max thinks there’s a mode of transport that we’ve all been ignoring: Walking.

Listen to the episode to see why Max designed an audio guide for strolling in Munich, why he thinks the flaneur is so inspiring and what to do about the “non-locations” in our lives.

You can see more of Max here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilianritz/

Photo credit: Maximilian Ritz

Also mentioned:

Walking in Berlin: A Flaneur in the Capital by Franz Hessel

On Doing Nothing by Roman Muradov

Cities for People by Jan Gehl

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Welcome to Cognitive Snap, a show that explores science, philosophy and economics through design, and my name is Bawa Kulkarni.
We’re used to thinking and talking about designed objects, be it physical products or digital services or even intangible artefacts like language and music. The point of this podcast though is to treat design itself as a designed object, to think about the field of design as the artefact. During the show, I talk to and collaborate with designers and non-designers to see all these different fields through the lens of design, and in this way maybe, learn a little bit more about the lens itself.

Subscribe to Cognitive Snap on your favourite podcast app to listen to new episodes monthly. For more information, visit the website cognitive-snap.com. Thank you for listening!

Special thanks to Shakthi Prasad KT for the audio.

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Not all design is user-centric design. This episode takes a look at speculative design as a way of exploring the possible futures of our planet. I talk to Ele about how a ski-cabin designed in the 1960s led to her master thesis on worms that can decompose plastic .

You can see Ele's work here: beworm.org

For a full transcript, show notes and visual accompaniment, click here.

Ele’s Master thesis: Kunststoff als Nährstoff (German)

Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby.

Beworm’s website: https://www.beworm.org/

The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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