3daysofdesign - Beyond the Festival: What Shapes
Our current podcast series hosted by Veronica D'Souza, “What Shapes”, is a new, short-form podcast series exploring the human side of creativity through intimate conversations with influential voices from our community. Each episode delves into the ideas, experiences, and values that inform creative lives within design, architecture, art and culture. From identity and beauty to responsibility, memory, and the future. Recorded during 3daysofdesign 2026, the series marks the beginning of an on ongoing dialogue designed to uncover the untold stories behind creative practice.
You can also scroll episodes from previous 3daysofdesign podcast series - Design Can Dream and Personal Perspectives.
Episodes
12 episodes
What Shapes with Paola Antonelli
Tune into our first episode featuring Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) hosted by Veronica D'Souza. In this insightful conversation, Paola explores the power designers have to shape th...
Personal Perspectives with Julius Værnes Iversen
Coming from a family of florists — he grew up working in his father’s flower shop — Iversen reimagined floristry not as mere decoration but as design material.Under his direction, TABLEAU merges floral art with spatial design, object design, se...
Personal Perspectives with Pearson Lloyd
Pearson Lloyd is a London-based design studio, founded in 1997 by Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd. Their approach is deliberately collaborative and constraint-aware. They embrace the restrictions imposed by materials, function, manufacturing, market...
Personal Perspectives with Grant Gibson
In this episode, we sit down with Grant Gibson, co-founder of the design exhibition and podcast Material Matters. Recorded live in our Design District Christianshavn, we explore the power of materials, how they shape ideas, values, and the way ...
Personal Perspectives with Lee Broom
Tune into our first episode featuring Lee Broom, a leading product designer in the UK. Since founding his studio in 2007 Lee Broom has created over 100 lighting, furniture and accessories, all designed by Lee himself and retailed around the wor...
Design Can Dream - Selecting Materials for Design
Joining us in the studio today, straight from the stage of the Common Ground Symposium, is British industrial designer Tej Chauhan. Tej's focus is on creating connection, driven by an interest in engaging a broad audience, regardless of brand p...
Design Can Dream - Portrait: Monica Förster
Swedish designer Monica Förster is renowned for her innovative and forward-thinking approach to design. We were delighted that she found time in her busy schedule to stop by our floating podcast studio. Monica's work spans various fields includ...
Design Can Dream - Good Design
With: Alfredo Häberli, Luca Nichetto, Michael Anastassiades. This afternoon, three gentlemen arrive at our floating podcast studio. They are all industry icons, masters of the art of design, and have been for many years. Together wi...
Design Can Dream - Crafting Conscious Solutions
With: Ineke Hans. If you're curious about why sustainability designer Ineke Hans finds significance in a fairy tale about a king who introduces an elephant to the land of the blind, you won't want to miss this. Ahead of her particip...
Design Can Dream - Portrait: Francisco Gomez Paz
Design Can Dream - Portrait Francisco Gomez Paz. Francisco Gomez Paz's childhood dream was to invent things. As a dyslexic, he struggled at school and therefore decided to enter the "world of objects"; a personal space where he coul...
Design Can Dream - Designing for human connection
With: Anupama Kundoo & Larry Botchway. How can we design lively and connected communities? This session will explore how creativity brings people together and supports social networks. By using design to center human connection,...
Design Can Dream - Looking into the future with Velux
"If you can dream it, you can do it". These words come without hesitation from Lone Feifer, Director of Sustainable Buildings at VELUX Group. Family-owned Velux empowers its employees to dream, which means the organisation is...
