Design the Future
Women are living, learning, and leading towards a sustainable future. Their stories can help us all accelerate toward that vision in the built environment. Design the Future is a podcast created to elevate and explore th...
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- Pauline Souza1 ep
- Heidi Creighton1 ep
- Lauren Alger1 ep
Also: Lindsay Baker, Jill Sherman, Beth Heider, Miranda Gardiner, Lara Kaufman, Anjanette Green, Kristy Walson, Sarah Gudeman
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- 🇳🇬NG · Design#577.6K to 93K
- 🇿🇦ZA · Design#823.8K to 47K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
11K to 140K🎙 Weekly cadence·128 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
23K to 280K🇺🇸71%🇳🇬19%🇿🇦10% - Active Followers
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13K to 154K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/22/26 | Sierra Bainbridge on abundant futures | As a founder and Senior Principal at Model of Architecture Serving Society, known as MASS, Sierra directs the Landscape Studio and Abundant Futures Lab. She leads many of MASS’s most complex and transformative projects across landscape, memorial, architectural, and land-use design. With a background blending landscape, architecture, ecology, and regional planning, she is committed to comprehensive, cross-disciplinary approaches, applying design techniques and landscape metrics th... | 43m 04s | ||||||
| 10/13/26 |  Mallory Taub on the role of integrators | Mallory is a Director of Sustainability in Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability studio. She collaborates across disciplines to improve the ecological and health impact of buildings that provide inspiring daily experiences for all. She played a key role in the development of the Gensler Product Sustainability Standards, an open-source framework that streamlines material selection to reduce environmental impact in architectural interiors. We heard about how Mallory engages local... | 53m 00s | ||||||
| 9/17/26 | Gayathri Unnikrishnan on the social dimension of sustainability | Gayathri Unnikrishnan has spent her career working at the intersection of design, human health, and sustainability. Today, she is the founder and CEO of Liveable, where she helps design teams, manufacturers, and organizations understand the human impact of their work and make a stronger case for solutions that are better for people. Her new book, People Positive, offers a practical framework for bringing human impact into decisions about buildings, products, and communities. She also ho... | 46m 11s | ||||||
| 8/27/26 | sustainabilitydesign+3 | Pauline Souza | WRNS StudioLEED+3 | — | sustainabilitydesign+4 | — | 42m 19s | ||
| 8/20/26 | circular economydesign+3 | Heidi Creighton | City of Santa MonicaAIA Los Angeles+2 | — | circular economyurban planning+3 | — | 45m 41s | ||
| 6/4/26 | sustainable designinfrastructure+3 | Lauren Alger | STVASCE | — | sustainable designinfrastructure+3 | — | 40m 04s | ||
| 5/25/26 | public speakingcommunity engagement+3 | Lindsay Baker | — | Seattle | Living Future 26Lindsay Baker+4 | — | 24m 01s | ||
| 4/30/26 | building developmentpublic-private partnerships+3 | Jill Sherman | Edlen & Co. | — | building developmentpublic-private partnerships+3 | — | 32m 14s | ||
| 3/26/26 | sustainable designhigh-performance buildings+3 | Beth Heider | Heider Sustainability AdvisorsSkanska USA | — | sustainabilitydesign+3 | — | 44m 24s | ||
| 2/19/26 | decarbonizationdigital infrastructure+3 | Miranda Gardiner | iMasons Climate Accorddesign firms+2 | — | decarbonizationdigital infrastructure+3 | — | 47m 00s | ||
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| 2/5/26 | sustainabilityarchitecture+3 | Lara Kaufman | Studio GangCarbon Leadership Forum | New York | sustainabilityarchitecture+3 | — | 43m 45s | ||
| 12/18/25 | architecturedesign+3 | Anjanette Green | A Greener Space | Peruvian Amazon | architecturedesign+5 | — | 46m 55s | ||
| 11/20/25 | collaborationdecarbonization+3 | Kristy WalsonSarah Gudeman | BranchPattern | Orlando, Florida | decarbonizationsustainable design+3 | — | 50m 00s | ||
| 10/16/25 | Julie Ju-Youn Kim on design impact and relationships | Julie Ju-Youn Kim, FAIA, is the William H. Harrison Professor and Chair of the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she founded and directs the Flourishing Communities Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research and design lab. She is also founder and partner of C2 Architecture Studio. In her early-career years in Detroit, Julie tried to meet as many people as possible and found that opportunities -- for practice and teaching -- presented themselves. Jul... | 41m 21s | ||||||
| 9/11/25 | Gladys Ly-Au Young on belonging and resilience | Gladys Ly-Au Young is a founding partner of the Seattle firm, Side x Side Architects. The firm is changing practice by broadening the spectrum of architectural services, to promote community focused design that supports equity and sustainability in the built environment. Gladys was honored this year with the Hero Award from Living Future, which recognizes people who are advancing progress toward a living future for all. Gladys described what it’s like to work at the intersection of arch... | 41m 45s | ||||||
| 9/4/25 | Barbra Batshalom on social psychology and systems change | Barbra is the founder and CEO of BuildingEase and Sustainable Performance Institute -- an industry leader whose innovative vision drives market transformation from public policy to professional practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of systems, processes and culture. With a diverse background of fine arts, social psychology and nearly 30 years in architecture and sustainability consulting, she brings a perspective that engages the human dynamics of decision-making and creative c... | 41m 30s | ||||||
| 8/14/25 | Erica McBride on the care and feeding of Living Buildings | Erica McBride is the Regenerative Operations Manager at Architectural Nexus -- known as Arch Nexus. She oversees the performance and integrity of the firm’s two certified Living Buildings, in Sacramento and Salt Lake City. Erica was honored with the Living Future Hero Award in 2025 and holds credentials as a WELL AP, LEED Green Associate, and Living Future Accredited professional. Her work reflects a deep passion for regenerative design and sustainable building operations. Erica is living the... | 45m 08s | ||||||
| 7/31/25 | Jenn Taranto on tenacity, leadership, and building better | Jenn Taranto has more than 25 years of experience in commercial real estate and construction and serves as Vice President of Sustainability at STO Building Group, a major construction organization. Passionate about reducing environmental impact, she drives STOBG’s internal sustainability strategy, helps clients define CSR goals, guides project teams to achieve milestones, and supports efforts to lower costs and emissions. We talked with Jenn about her long-term role with Built Environment Plu... | 43m 28s | ||||||
| 6/26/25 | Stacy Glass on ending toxic chemical exposure | Stacy Glass is co-founder and executive director of ChemFORWARD, a nonprofit that creates access to chemical hazard data and seeks safer alternatives in partnership with industry. Stacy drives partnerships, collaborations and stakeholder engagement to support this mission and her aim to end toxic chemical exposure and advance human and environmental equity. ChemForward’s theory of change is rooted in collaboration with industry and other parties -- the entire supply chain. What ChemFowa... | 42m 33s | ||||||
| 5/29/25 | Kaarin Knudson on new patterns, agency, and a better future | Kaarin Knudson is an architect, a writer, and an educator with more than 25 years’ experience in design, sustainability, and community building. Trained as a journalist before becoming an architect, her work has always focused on people and place. In 2017, after a decade in architectural practice, she organized the public-interest project Better Housing Together to address Lane County’s housing crisis. This work supported the creation of Eugene’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Lane County’s f... | 50m 44s | ||||||
| 5/15/25 | Kayleigh Houde on computational opportunity and climate progress | Kayleigh Houde is an Associate Principal and Global Computational Projects Lead at Buro Happold, where she is responsible for the harmonized development of new technologies within the open-source coding platform BHoM. Her leadership extends to chairing the MEP 2040 Commitment, participating in the ECHO Project and ASHRAE Center of Excellence for Building Decarbonization. She is also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Parametric Life Cycle Assessment. We spok... | 34m 50s | ||||||
| 5/1/25 | Kritika Kharbanda on evidence-based design and storytelling | As the Head of Sustainability for Henning Larsen, Kritika Kharbanda spearheads the global sustainability team’s initiatives, goals, and growth. She serves on the ULI New York’s Climate and Sustainability Council and is the co-chair for AIA New York’s Building Science Committee. We talked about her journey from India to Japan, Denmark, and the U.S. We discussed storytelling and negotiations; evidence-based design; and her role with Pathways AI,a climate-tech startup using AI to automate Envi... | 44m 56s | ||||||
| 4/24/25 | Krista Egger on healthy, resilient housing for all | As VP of Building Resilient Futures at Enterprise Community Partners, Krista Egger stewards the nonprofit’s national environmental programs, including Green Communities, Health Action Plan, Resilience Academies, and Decarbonization Hubs. Krista went to Oberlin and and studied physics and architectural history. After college, a stint with AmeriCorps introduced her to a kind of applied building science. “I had the opportunity to identify root causes and then make things better,” she says.... | 41m 39s | ||||||
| 3/6/25 | Upali Nanda on design for human health and perception | Dr. Upali Nanda is Partner and Executive Vice President at HKS. As the firm’s Global Sector Director, Innovation, she oversees HKS’s Research, Advisory, Sustainable Design and Cities & Communities services. Based in Ann Arbor, Upali has extensive experience leading research projects in design practice with a focus on the impact of design on human health and perception. Upali believes that the big problems will be solved by getting many disciplines together in conversation. One examp... | 54m 46s | ||||||
| 2/20/25 | Shannon Goodman on building reuse and building community | Shannon Goodman is the Executive Director of the Lifecycle Building Center in Atlanta, which has redirected nearly 13 million pounds of usable materials away from landfills and generated over $6 million in community savings, including 450 in-kind material grants to nonprofits. Shannon also serves as Board President for the nonprofit Build Reuse, representing reuse-focused organizations across the U.S. We talked to her about running a nonprofit and about the changes afoot in the AEC fiel... | 46m 24s | ||||||
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Chart history for Design the Future
Peaked at #57 in NG, currently #57 in NG.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG | — | #57 | #57 | — |
| South Africa | — | #82 | #82 | — |
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.