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 78: Designing Health Technology | Subha Aira...
How can better designed healthcare tools decrease clinician burnout? Why does the EHR suck so bad? What are ways to improve data visualization in the medical record?
45 min
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EP 77: Designing Stories in Medicine | Alessand...
Can the practice of writing make better physicians? Why are stories essential to the practice of Medicine? How can you become a better storyteller?
38 min
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Ep 76: Designing Smell | Nancy E. Rawson
What is the relationship between smell and memory? Can our sense of smell improve our emotional health? Should a smell check be a part of our regular check-ups?
43 min
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EP 75: Designing Global Health | Tracy Johnson
What is a design anthropologist? How can design reframe challenges in global health? Why does Montreal have outdoor staircases?
38 min
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EP 74: Designing the Future of Everything | Phn...
What is the role of culture when designing for humans? How can you create a culture of creativity? Do you always need to do research before designing?
38 min
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EP 73: Designing for Mars | Melodie Yashar
How do you 3D print habitats for Mars? What is a space architect? Can designing for extreme environments improve healthcare?
38 min
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EP 72: Designing on the Front Lines, Part 3 | ...
From plastic sneeze guards to graphics for social distancing, new norms sprang quickly into place. What worked and what didn’t? How can everyone have access to healthier spaces?
54 min
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EP 71: Designing Recovery Through Surfing | Th...
Is surfing the most addictive sport? How did surfing help a writer with a substance use disorder enter into recovery? What activities can be a form of therapy for you?
35 min
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EP 70: Designing Civic Tech | Sha Hwang
How does an architect end up working on Obamacare? What are the differences between designing with data and physical materials? Why does the government need more designers?
38 min
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EP 69: Designing a Covid-19 Vaccine for the Wor...
What is an open source vaccine? How are vaccine and beer production similar? Are D.I.Y. vaccine starters kits the best strategy to vaccinate the world?
43 min
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EP 68: Designing on the Front Lines, Part 2 | D...
This is part 2 of a special 3-part virtual talk in partnership with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University.
56 min
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EP 67: Designing Health into Everyday Life | St...
Is the everyday world making us sick? Can we hold companies responsibility for the health consequences of their products and services? How do you design health into the operating systems of our civilization?
41 min
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EP 66: Designing Products of the Future | Allan...
What does design even mean? How can you decrease the number of meetings in your schedule? What is one of the smartest ways to make sustainable change?
55 min
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EP 65: Designing Strategic Innovation | Kevin B...
How does design transform organizations? Why does diversity fuel innovation? What happens when you let curiosity guide you?
38 min
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EP 64: Designing for Fun | Catherine Price
Bon and Catherine talk about fun magnets, minimizing flow disruptors and microdosing fun into our daily lives.
38 min
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EP 63: Designing on the Front Lines, Part 1 | B...
This is a special 3 part virtual talk in partnership with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University.
54 min
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EP 62: Designing Motherhood, Part 2 | Michelle ...
Did you know that a graphic designer created the first over-the-counter pregnancy test? How did giving birth become medicalized? What does culturally appropriate care look like?
47 min
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EP 61: Designing Motherhood, Part 1 | Zoe Gregg...
Why have the designs of motherhood remained hidden? What can we learn from the design history of pessaries? How can we expand the definition of motherhood?
43 min
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Introducing: Design Lab with Bon Ku
We tell stories about how the worlds of design, art, science and health intersect!
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Ep 60: Designing Creative Responses to Epidemic...
How do diseases shape design? What does a low cost prototype look like? Where can you view the face masks that Naomi Osaka wore during the U.S. Open?
39 min
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EP 59: Designing Peer-to-Peer Health | Susannah...
How can peer to peer connection make a healthier society? Can Amazon reviews give us fresh insight into our health? Why do on-line patient communities represent an incredible untapped resource in healthcare? How can a co-designed death give us a fuller life?
51 min
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EP 58: Designing Healthier Schools | Dina Sorensen
Bon and Dina talk about how can we leverage the built environment to unlock our potential and what happens when scientists, architects and public health experts work together.
38 min
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EP 57: Designing for Scale | Doug Powell
Bon and Doug talk about the superpower of designers, why healthcare needs designers and how to create the conditions for designers to thrive.
35 min
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EP 56: Designing Cures Faster | Michelle Longmire
Bon and Michelle talk about redesigning clinical trials, health equity in clinical trial diversity and the importance of the creative process in scientific discovery.
40 min
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EP 55: Designing for Labor and Delivery | Jules...
Bon and Jules talk about creating safe spaces in hospitals for sharing needs, making labor and delivery safer and why healthcare is incredibly creative.
40 min