Design Lab with Bon Ku
Does living in a well-designed city make you healthier? How can surfing increase your creativity? Have you ever wondered why hospitals are so ugly? Bon Ku is a physician and an avid fan of design, food, surfboarding, and Medicine. On DESIGN LAB, Bon and his guests tell stories at the intersection of design, science, and humanity. Listen each week and learn new insights, hacks, and design principles that you can apply to your own life. ISSN 2833-2032
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EP 103: Designing Planetary Health | Chethan Sa...
Did you know that the U.S. healthcare system is responsible for 10% of national greenhouse gas emissions? Learn how a pediatrician trained in landscape architecture is using clinical informatics and design to address the health impacts of climate change.
38 min
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EP 102: Designing the Stage for Better Health |...
Learn how an architect is setting the stage for better health by design, the relationship between neuroscience and architecture and design diagnostics.
40 min
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EP 101: Designing the Immune System of Mental H...
Learn about how Dr. Susan Swick is challenging the paradigm of mental health, redesigning the future of behavioral health facilities and why every community needs a gym for building our mental health resilience.
54 min
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EP 100: Clip Show Special
Thank you for supporting us through 100 episodes and getting us to 100,000 downloads! In this episode, Bon and Rob play back some of our favorite clips from early episodes and reminisce about all we have learned along the way.
36 min
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EP 99: Designing Caregiving | Edith Elliott and...
How can we design for trust? What is the most transformative force in healthcare? On today's episode, you're going to learn how students at a design class at Stanford started Noora Health.
36 min
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EP 98: Designing the Future of Patient Safety |...
Learn about the creative journey of a Chinese immigrant who served as a Green Beret and then started a medical device company that uses AI to make hospitals safer.
39 min
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EP 97: Designing Nature Prescriptions | Melissa...
Is your health suffering from nature deprivation? Why are doctors prescribing park prescriptions? Can nature exposure prevent the onset of chronic disease?
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EP 96: Designing the Long Life | Ayse Birsel
Can we view life as a design project? What design principles can help us be more creative? Why should we start designing for the life we want as we grow older?
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EP 95: Designing Environmental Health | Jennife...
How can we microdose nature into the built environment? What are the benefits of green spaces and who has access to them? What’s the story behind Billie Holiday’s song Strange Fruit?
45 min
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EP 94: Designing for Disaster | Sheri Fink
How might we better prepare for disasters? What role did deadly design play in Hurricane Katrina? How does the concept of triage during a crisis reflect our values?
42 min
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EP 93: Designing for Humanity | Platon
How does one of the world’s most renowned photographers humanize data? Can ordinary people do extraordinary things? What is true power?
48 min
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EP 92: Designing Pandemic Survival | David France
Can we survive the next pandemic? How does the Covid-19 pandemic parallel the HIV pandemic? What lessons can we learn from the current global pandemic response?
39 min
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EP 91: Designing for Complex Systems | Valerie ...
How does design excel at producing experience outcomes? What’s the role of a chief design officer? What does it look like for design to have a strategic role?
41 min
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EP 90: Designing for Long Covid | Lekshmi Santhosh
How do you design care for patients with Long Covid? Will the pandemic lead to a redesign of medical education? Can design principles create safer standards in healthcare?
39 min
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EP 89: Designing Intellectual Antibodies | Seem...
Can we design intellectual antibodies? How does misinformation spread like a virus? Why do our brains cling to biases?
39 min
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EP 88: Designing Relationships for Health | Jul...
Does loneliness make us sicker? Do people who have more friends live longer? Why is loneliness a public health issue?
29 min
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EP 87: Designing for Health in the Age of Anxie...
Is there scientific evidence behind the daily decisions you make about your health? What role should clinician scientists and institutions play in debunking pseudoscience? Why does misinformation spread like a virus?
39 min
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EP 86: Designing for Disability | Laura Mauldin
Why do we hate disability? Why does design neglect disability? How do disabled people tap into their creativity to make the world accessible?
36 min
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EP 85: Designing Curious Minds | Perry Zurn and...
How do you define curiosity? Can it make us happier? Does curiosity have style?
41 min
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EP 84: Designing Healthcare through Stories | J...
Does creativity help physicians care for their patients? Can making space for stories improve healthcare? How does imagination come into play in the practice of Medicine?
39 min
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EP 83: Designing a Healthy Work Culture | Nina ...
How can we create a healthy work culture? What is equitable listening? How does making space for learning benefit organizations?
39 min
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EP 82: Designing Creative Acts | Sarah Stein Gr...
How does design unlock your creative abilities? Why is it so hard for us to tolerate ambiguity? Can the fundamentals of design help us to learn more quickly?
41 min
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EP 81: Designing Against Burnout | Sudhakar Nuti
What are guiding principles for addressing burnout? Can burnout be reversed? Why is burnout one of the most pressing issues in healthcare?
38 min
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EP 80: Designing Wayfinding | Katie Osborn
How can wayfinding improve the patient experience? Why are hospitals so confusing? What are the design principles for great wayfinding?
44 min
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EP 79: Designing the Treatment of Pain | Haider...
Why is almost everything we know about pain wrong? How can we reframe our understanding of chronic pain? Is there a more effective way to treat pain outside of pills and procedures?
43 min