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.
Episodes
14 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...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 7 | Steven Cooper on The Kitchen As a Place Where Grief, Joy & Identity Live
There's a room in your home that holds everything.It’s the room where you learn that mistakes are okay and you’re encouraged to keep trying, the place that holds the grief that has nowhere else to go. It’s also the room where joyful cel...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 6 | Garrett Robbins on Storytelling, Cultural Memory, and Andaz Prague
On this episode of Crafting Human, I sit down with interior designer Garrett Robbins, co-founder of Brime Robbins, for a conversation about cultural heritage, storytelling, and the role design can play in reflecting a sense of identity and enab...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 5 | David Leventhal on Designing Business as a Living System
On this episode of Crafting Human™, I sit down with David Leventhal, founder of Playa Viva, a regenerative luxury destination resort, for a conversation about regeneration, adaptability, and what it means to design business as a living system.<...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 4 | Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross on How Art Changes the Brain
On this episode of Crafting Human™, I sit down with Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, authors of Your Brain on Art, for a conversation about how the arts and aesthetics shape us, emotionally, physically, and neurologically.Drawing from neuros...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 3 | Thomas Lavin on Building a Business That Champions Makers
On this episode of Crafting Human™, I sit down with Thomas Lavin, Founder and CEO of Thomas Lavin Showroom, for a conversation about craft, stewardship, and the responsibility of building a business around makers.Over nearly three decade...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 2 | Valerie Legras & Morgane Baroghel-Crucq on Craft as Remedy to Disconnection
On this episode of Crafting Human™, designer Valerie Legras and fibre artist Morgane Baroghel-Crucq reflect on craft as a form of embodied intelligence, one that lives in the hands, the body, and the process of making itself.Together, we...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 2 Teaser | Objects Used to Have Soul...What Happened?
What happens when we stop teaching people how to make things?On Crafting Human, next Wednesday, 1/28, join me for a fascinating conversation with Valerie Legras, Founder & Creative Director of SWADOH design studio, and Morgane Barogh...
Crafting Human™ Ep. 1 | Gabriel Islas on Letting Go To Find Creative Courage & Growth
On this episode of Crafting Human™, painter and educator Gabriel Islas reflects on plein air painting: working in the landscape where weather, time, discomfort, and imperfection shape both the process and the outcome. Together, we ...
Introducing Crafting Human™ | Crafting Human In the Age of AI
As technology accelerates speed, scale, and efficiency, many of us are left asking deeper questions: what does it mean to be human in a world increasingly shaped by machines?Hosted by designer and creative leader Sharon Yu, Crafting Hum...
