NCOMMON

In this episode, rooted in Sentido's El Yunque chapter, Alison is joined by futurist and speculative designer Monika Bielskyte to talk about Protopia Futures — a framework built on the premise that the futures worth inhabiting are neither utopian nor extractive, and that most of the people designing ours are still working from a model of the human that science abandoned a long time ago.

In this episode, Jacqui and Alison unpack the different levels of organizational maturity. To Design in general, and the future as Design is embedded in our every day. How do we, as Design leaders, continue to balance the present need, with the future state – in service of business needs to change and evolve in order to remain relevant.

In episode 6, Jacqui and Alison speak with Connie Liu, founder of Project Invent. Project Invent empowers students with the 21st-century skills to succeed individually and impact globally with the goal of “creating a generation of fearless problem solvers.” We unpack how Connie had her epiphany while attending MIT for Mechanical Engineering that designing a better world isn’t going to come from textbooks. We have to meet people where they are, give them the tools to think differently, empower them to be the change they want to see and change the face of the mirrortocracy.

In this episode, Jacqui shares her experience of the boiling ocean of Design Operations. Through a memory of her experience as a collegiate athlete, she came upon the concept of Flow. Inspired by this positive psychology concept, Jacqui tells the story of how she found some patterns in the chaos.

In this episode, Jacqui and Alison discuss Alison’s post on the work she has been doing to connect the dots between her past and her current role, our responsibility as women of color leading in this industry, the experience of being an “only”, and calling a bit of BS on the talk du jour around Belonging.