Change Lab: Conversations on Transfor...

ArtCenter College of Design’s bi-weekly podcast features intimate interviews with leading artists examining the ideas fueling their work and how the creative process can be a catalyst for change—personally, professionally and globally. Hosted by ArtCenter President, Lorne M. Buchman, these conversations examine the many ways in which artists and designers are enriching our lives. ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education; and our mission statement—Learn to create. Influence change—lies at the center of all we do.

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Change Lab Presents: Scene On Radio
More Democracy
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38 Kevin Bethune on realizing dreams through de...
52 min
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Change Lab Presents: The Brown Girls Guide to P...
Freedom Summer: Brittany Packnett Cunningham
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37 Photographer Barbara DuMetz on bringing dive...
51 min
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Change Lab Presents: The Institute of Black Ima...
Host Dario Calmez interviews Dr. Mabel Wilson
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36 Bob Davidson on Rising Above Segregation thr...
47 min
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Change Lab Season 07 Trailer
On September 23rd, Change Lab will kick off its seventh season, which is dedicated to amplifying Black voices in art, design and activism. Much has changed since our last episode – everything really. So in response to these radically shifting times,...
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35 Graffiti artist Chaz Bojorquez on straddling...
This episode of Change Lab happens to be the last one of this season and we’ll resume again, as usual, in the fall. And though it wasn’t planned this way, it’s hard to think of an interview more timely or better suited to demonstrating the...
44 min
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34 Get Lit Words Ignite founder Diane Luby Lane...
Diane Luby Lane’s job title is pretty straightforward. She’s the founder and executive director of Get Lit-Words Ignite, a leading arts education nonprofit dedicated to increasing literacy and stemming dropout rates among at-risk youth. Her...
53 min
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33 Dennis Gassner on the ‘method’ behind his Os...
Storytelling is Dennis Gassner’s mother tongue. It’s the language – and the context -- through which the ArtCenter alum and legendary production designer processes the ideas of a script, and it fundamentally shapes the worlds his characters...
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32 Jessica Helfand on Redefining Design Ethics ...
It’s not an overstatement to say that Jessica Helfand is a renaissance woman of the design world. She co-founded Design Observer, an authoritative digital publication on the state of visual culture and an oracle of wise and thoughtful discourse on...
53 min
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31 Ini Archibong on Designing Things that Spark...
Ini Archibong is a luxury goods designer. He is also a furniture and immersive experience designer and an ArtCenter alum. This is all accurate and incomplete. So we’ll leave it to Ini to describe his creative practice: “Any of the objects I’m...
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30 Documentary Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on the Ac...
Ivy Meeropol is a documentary filmmaker whose emotionally and politically charged films explore social and cultural injustice from the inside out. Her work in TV and film ranges from an exploration of the threat posed by the nuclear power industry to...
51 min
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29 Saki Mafundikwa and Sadie Red Wing on Decolo...
Sadie Red Wing and Saki Mafundikwa grew up a world and two generations apart. Sadie was born into the Lakota tribe and also considers herself a citizen of the Spirt Lake Nation of Fort Totten, South Dakota—two longstanding American indigenous...
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28 Recent Alum Vicente Magaña on Solving the Ri...
ArtCenter’s Transportation Design program has a type and, at first glance, Vicente Magaña seems to fit it perfectly. A lifelong obsession with cars? Check. A childhood spent sketching every type of vehicle his imagination could conjure? Check. An...
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27 IBM Design Chief Phil Gilbert on Leadership ...
Though Phil Gilbert’s official job title is General Manager of Design at IBM, he’s more often referred to as IBM’s very own design evangelist. But ask him to describe his earliest creative impulses and he’ll tell you without hesitation that he...
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Encore Episode: Wendy MacNaughton on Road Testi...
In the lead up to the launch of Change Lab Season 5 on September 25, we’re releasing a series of “Encore” episodes. For this final installment, we caught up with graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton to discuss her latest creative...
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Encore Episode: Reconnecting with Jesse Genet o...
In the lead up to the launch of Change Lab Season 5 on September 25, we’re releasing a series of “Encore” episodes. For this installment, we caught up with designer and entrepreneur Jesse Genet for an update on the big changes...
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Encore Episode: Reconnecting with Jackie Amézqu...
In the lead up to the launch of Change Lab Season 5 on September 25, we’re releasing a series of “Encore” episodes. For this debut installment, we caught up with artist Jackie Amezquita before she embarked on a three-week journey...
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26 Father Greg Boyle on Reducing Gang Violence ...
For the past thirty years, Father Greg Boyle has made it his mission to heal those afflicted by the epidemic of gang violence. As the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention, rehab and reentry program in the world, Father Greg has...
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25 RISD President Rosanne Somerson on the Next ...
Rosanne Somerson is an internationally exhibited furniture designer and President of Rhode Island School of Design. Somerson, a RISD alum, sees her parallel roles as a leader and practitioner as complementary parts of her life’s work, which she says...
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24 Jeff Goodby on Creating Mass Intimacy throug...
Jeff Goodby is an advertising legend, whose humanity and humility have propelled him to the peak of a profession not necessarily known for either. Imagine an ad man as clever and visionary as Don Draper, minus the chain-smoking and cynicism and you...
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23 Rebeca Méndez on dissolving boundaries and c...
Rebeca Mendez is an artist, designer, educator and ArtCenter alumna whose creative practice defies the bounds of traditional disciplines or descriptions. Her pioneering career in graphic design has been widely recognized. Most recently, her work was...
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22 Mariana Prieto on Designing for Wildlife
Mariana Prieto is a social impact designer whose work has been a catalyst for positive change across the developing world. A 2012 Product Design graduate from ArtCenter, she has, in a very short period of time, built a remarkable career addressing the...
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21 Ari Montanez on Realizing his NBA Dreams thr...
Fall 2018 Product Design graduate Ari Montanez spent much of his young life equipping himself with the skills and stamina necessary to succeed in a highly competitive arena – ideally one called Madison Square Garden or Staples Center. Indeed, this...
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