Crafting Human™ Podcast
Crafting Human celebrates the creative brilliance of humans and the value of the soulful human touch expressed in the process of making, building and creating. Each week we have conversations with global creatives, makers, artisans, craftsmen, designers and storytellers, and we discuss how their work creates meaningful connections, distinctly shapes cultures and transforms communities & ecosystems. Crafting Human is a quiet resistance to the values of the industrial mindset that erode and devalue humans in the creative process. Through each guest's stories and creative expressions, we restore attention to what cannot be automated: the human hand, the human process, and the human story, which reflect our identity and values, and shape our experiences. We are reclaiming agency, the value of our humanity and the priceless beauty of the "slow" work made with intention and soul.
Crafting Human™ Podcast
Latest Episodes
Crafting Human™ Ep. 12 | Feel Your Way: Will Ayers on Haptics, Imperfection & What Design Forgets
The use of signs is disappearing. Cars are already driving themselves, and soon navigation may be something we stop looking at altogether.For nearly a decade, Will Ayers, founder of Found, has been rethinking wayfinding and environmenta...
Crafting Human™ Episode 11 | Working with Nature to Regenerate Failing Systems
Imagine a world where developers and communities are not at odds but sitting on the same side of the table, where a city addresses its housing shortage by restoring its wetlands instead of paving them, and where the place you live is one you tr...
Crafting Human™ Episode 10 | What Home Really Means with Sandra Fadayel
When the place that once represented home is no longer, what does it look like to build it again, and not just the walls and rooms, but the deeper foundations home provides: safety, identity, belonging?In this episode of Crafting Human,...
Crafting Human™ Episode 9 | The Art of Caring: Why Investing in Artists Is a Social Strategy
There are people in the world quietly doing something extraordinary: building systems of care around artists, the human beings who make culture possible.Kathy Treat is one of them.In 2008, Kathy founded the Speranza Foundation, ...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 8 | Water Has a Superpower and It's Working on You Right Now: Jim Garland on Water’s Impact
Water has a superpower. You’ve felt it, even if you’ve never named it.“It distracts us just enough that it opens us, and our minds move along different channels. Like a daydream. Like when you relax and suddenly think of what’s really i...