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FUTURE OF XYZ
FUTURE OF XYZ is a bi-weekly interview series that explores big questions about where we are as a world and where we’re going. Through candid conversations with international experts, visionary leaders and courageous changemakers- we provoke new thinking about what's coming down the pipeline on matters related to art & design, science & innovation, culture & creativity. Future of XYZ is presented by iF Design, a respected member of the international design community and host of the prestigious…
Episodes
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Future of Co-Working | Jean Chandler | S8 E22
S8 E22: The final episode in our special 4-part “Archober” series, this week we feature acclaimed interior designer, Jean Chandler, IIDA. Now the VP of Global…
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Future of Urban Resilience | Miho Mazereeuw | S8 E21
S8 E21: In our continued focus on the built environment in celebration of ‘Archtober’, this week’s guest is a half Dutch, half Japanese landscape architect…
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Future of Community Development | Alexis Villanueva | S8 E20
S8 E20: This week’s guest is Alexis Villanueva – longtime affordable housing advocate, President & CEO of City Heights Community Development Corporation- a…
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Future of Placemaking | Nina Cooke John | S8 E19
S8 E19: In the ‘Future of Placemaking’, acclaimed Architect & Artist, Nina Cooke John, joins us to talk about the practice of placemaking “as a way to…
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Future of Contemporary Art | Nancy Spector | S8 E18 (175th episode)
S8 E18 (Episode 175): For this special milestone edition, XYZ is speaking with the renowned and rather elusive, Nancy Spector, an independent art curator and…
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Future of Historic Preservation | Niles Parker | S8 E17
S8 E17: The United States National Park Service says, ”Historic preservation is a conversation with our past about our future”. Historic preservation is an…
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Future of EV Charging | Tiya Gordon | S8 E16
S8 E16: In the rapidly evolving electric vehicle landscape, the question of how and where to get a charge is imperative. Especially in densely populated urban…
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Future of Ingenuity | Chris Denson | S8 E15
S8 E15: “Calibrating our inner compass as individuals will lead to exponential ingenuity.” So suggests our guest on this week’s equally expansive episode. The…
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Future of (Not) Fast Furniture | Brad Ascalon | S8 E14
S8 E14: For XYZ’s second ever live recording release, we spoke live from the SURROUND Podcast Network studio at NeoCon with award-winner industrial designer…
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Future of Interiors | Cheryl Durst | S8 E13
S8 E13: For XYZ’s first ever live recording release, we spoke live from the SURROUND Podcast Network studio at NeoCon with Chicago native Cheryl Durst Hon…
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Future of Architects | Carole Wedge | S8 E12
S8 E12: Carole Wedge FAIA NOMA LEED AP is the CEO/EVP of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) - the largest design organization in the world with over…
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Future of Man-Made | Karen Korellis Reuther | S8 E11
S8 E11: Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a car crash than men. Across the trades, 90% of women cannot find properly fitting safety gear. In every…
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Future of Spatial Strategy | Güray Oskay | S8 E10
S8 E10: When a strategic architecture and experience firm thinks about design in decades-long time horizons and considers culture, community, and climate in…
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Future of Foresight | Radha Mistry | S8 E9
S8 E9: Foresight is a practice that predicts or prepares for the future by listening to the “weak signals of possible futures”. Similar to trend tracking and…
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Future of Seating | Todd Bracher | S8 E8
S8 E8: Todd Bracher studied at Pratt, did his Masters in Copenhagen, and spent a decade working across Europe, before returning to New York City where he…
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Future of The Intelligent Home | Yves Behar | S8 E7
S8 E7: Within the industrial design community, our guest is known as an innovative, global leader who has created hundreds of products and services for major…
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Future of What's Real | Annabelle Schneider | S8 E6
S8 E6: “Embodied presence.” “Intelligent gestures.” “Vulnerability is the real humanity inside us.” This week, we host Artist & Experience Designer, Annabelle…
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Future of Shoes | Charles Johnson | S8 E5
S8 E5: Humans have been covering our feet with shoes to protect from injury and disease for over 5000 years. Sportsmen have been harnessing shoe innovation to…
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Future of (Hu)man-Machine Collaboration | Matt McElvogue | S8 E4
S8 E4: “It’s about the orchestration of human judgment and machine capability towards a shared outcome.” This week’s episode is about (Hu)man-Machine…
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Future of Third Places | Robert Hammond | S8 E3
S8 E3: Of all the spaces in the world that people flock to, admire, and emulate in recent decades – few are as iconic as NYC’s The High Line- the old, elevated…
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Future of Color | Laura Guido-Clark | S8 E2
S8 E2: At the start of the year, what else is there for us to do than imagine all the bright wonderful possibilities ahead? And color helps guide us into sense…
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Future of Moviegoing | Jed Harmsen | S8 E1
S8 E1: To kick off the new year, we are opening Season 8 with a conversation about a favorite holiday entertainment and pastime, ‘moviegoing’. Our guest is Jed…
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Future of Thinking About the Future | Nick Foster | S7 E19 (Rerelease)
S7 E19 Rerelease (150th episode overall): Acclaimed industrial designer and recent author, Nick Foster RDI, joins XYZ for our 150th episode of the series! In…
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Future of Regenerative Design | Dr. Delfina Fantini van Ditmar | S7 E25
S7 E25: For our final new episode of 2025, we’re speaking with Dr. Delfina Fantini van Ditmar - a Senior Researcher at the Royal College of Art where she…
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Future of Fine Dining | Jo-Ann Makovitzky & Wylie Dufresne | S7 E24
S7 E24: Happy Thanksgiving, America! And happy eating everyone everywhere! In this special edition, we’re speaking about food, and specifically, fine dining…
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Future of Applied R&D | Martha Tsigkari | S7 E23
S7 E23: Our guest this week is Martha Tsigkari, a Senior Partner at Foster + Partners, among the world’s most acclaimed architectural firms founded by Lord…
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Future of Being Replaced | Tey Bannerman | S7 E22
S7 E22: Everyone is talking nonstop about how machines, robots, and AI are going to replace humans in the workforce and beyond. But what’s true? This week…
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Future of Anime | Gita Rebbapragada | S7 E21
S7 E21: In this episode, we speak with Gita Rebbapragada, COO at Crunchyroll, the global entertainment platform specializing in anime, manga, and Asian media…
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Future of Creativity | Doreen Lorenzo | S7 E20
S7 E20: What is creativity and why does it matter? How does creativity differ from innovation? What is the role of imagination? Of education? In the Future of…
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Future of Thinking About the Future | Nick Foster | S7 E19
S7 E19 (150 overall): Acclaimed industrial designer and recent author, Nick Foster RDI, joins XYZ for our 150th episode of the series! In this special episode…
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Future of 3D Computing | Brittan Heller | S7 E18
S7 E18: If you were to read Brittan Heller’s CV, you might wonder why we’re speaking with her about the ‘Future of 3D Computing’. A Yale-educated lawyer who…
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Future of Floor Coverings | Ana Cunningham & Ali McMurter | S7 E17
S7 E17: Off the shelf or highly bespoke, interior designers know that the choice of floor coverings is one of the most important decisions they can make for…
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Future of Pattern Making | Shelly Xu | S7 E16
S7 E16: The fashion industry is one of the world’s largest polluters, responsible for 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions and with 87% of textiles ending up…
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Future of Different | John Roescher | S7 E15
S7 E15: John Roescher and I met at SXSW earlier this year. When asked what he wanted to speak about on XYZ- the Founder and CEO of the Austin-based design…
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Future of Passive House | Luis Medina & Ken Levenson | S7 E14
S7 E14: You may never have heard of a Passive House, or the Passive House movement, but building to Passive House standards means meeting specific criteria…
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Future of Hospitality | Neil Jacobs | S7 E13
The hospitality industry encompasses various sectors including hotels, restaurants, entertainment, and tourism. Our guest this week is Neil Jacobs- a seasoned…
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Future of Play | Chris Down | S7 E12
S7 E12: Global toymaker Mattel knows a thing or two about Play. Operating in 35 countries with products sold in over 150 countries, the toy giant who employs…
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Future of The Mouse | Xinyue Zhou | S7 E11
Ever wonder how the “mouse” evolved? Or, how the graphical interface that introduced clicks and drags and the hover state changed the human-computer…
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Future of Neuroaesthetics | Suchi Reddy | S7 E10
Neuroaesthetics is all about how human-focused design affects our wellbeing. Our guest is an award-winning architect guided by the philosophy that "form…
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Future of Value Creation | Tensie Whelan | S7 E9
This May 1st- known in Europe as May Day or International Workers' Day- we’re exploring the intersection of capitalism, people, and planet. A distinguished…
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Future of Urbanization | Kevin Kennon | S7 E8
Of the world’s 8.2 billion population, nearly 6 in 10 people live in urban areas. By 2050, it’s expected to be 7 in 10, and closer to 8 in 10 by 2100. What…
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Future of Car Design | Sam Livingstone | S7 E7
What is sexier than a beautifully-designed car? From vintage classics to newer EVs and autonomous vehicles, this episode explores the many ways that car design…
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Future of Reusable Packaging | Mike Newman | S7 E6
Starting in the last mid-century, companies and consumers began moving away from commonly reusable/refillable packaging for goods like milk, eggs, liquor…
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Future of Hope | Nancy Giordano | S7 E5
Fascinated by the intersection of tech, business, society and our own expanding consciousness- with experience ranging from frozen foods to reinventing the…
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Future of Pleasure | Ti Chang | S7 E4
It’s a week after Valentine’s Day, the annual hallmark of romantic love, and we’re exploring a related idea- that of pleasure. Our guest is an award-winning…
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Future of Typography | Charles Nix | S7 E3
Typography is a graphic art that involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, letter spacing, and spaces between pairs of letters. It…
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Future of Gaming | Andrew Augustin | S7 E2
Worldwide video gaming revenue was estimated at nearly $455 billion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4% expected through the end of the…
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Future of Customer Experience (CX) | Henry Kim | S7 E1
Welcome to a new year! For our first episode of 2025, we are speaking about customer experience. Our guest is the Global Head of Design Strategy in the CX…
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Future of Snow Sports | Mark Sullivan | S4 E4 (Rerelease)
Tis the season for SNOW! And what better seasonal re-release than our amazing conversation from early 2023 about the ‘Future of Snow Sports’?! Our guest is the…
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Future of Greatness | Pascale Sablan | S6 E7
In our final new episode of the year, we have the privilege to speak with visionary architect and activist, Pascale Sablan, only the 315th living African…
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Future of Digitality | Nadine Clarke | S6 E6
Digital has become such a part of our lives, intertwined with everything we do, that most of us- personally or professionally- never pause to think about the…
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Future of Furniture | Hlynur Atlason | S6 E5
This fascinating episode begins with the etymology of the Italian word “mobilia”, then continues into the historical evolution of furniture design, current…
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Future of Space Communications | David Rager | S6 E4
Our guest this week may have the world's (or universe’s?) coolest job! As Creative Director at NASA, David Rager oversees the agency's visual brand. From…
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Future of Circularity | Joe Iles | S6 E3
Want to learn about circularity, but not sure what it is? Few people are better poised to talk about maximizing systemic change and collective action than this…
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Future of Music | Marcus G. Miller | S6 E2
A musical virtuoso who tours with Jon Batiste and serves as the Musical Director of Grace Farms Foundation- our guest this week brings us an episode that is…
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Future of Design | Amy Devers, Josh Rubin, & Evan Orensten | S6 E1
What other topic would we discuss in our 125th overall episode and kickoff to a new season, with our new presenting sponsor, @ifdesign and now as part of the…
FUTURE OF XYZFuture of Innovation | Andrew Lane | S5 E9
Innovation- it's a huge topic ranging from the invention of the wheel or printing press, to mindset shifts or harnessing the technology that fuels our modern…
FUTURE OF XYZFuture of Exploration | Chris Rainier | S5 E8
“We are a species of curiosity and survival; I’m convinced that exploration is embedded in our human DNA.” Chris Rainier is the son of an explorer and an…
FUTURE OF XYZFuture of Open Hiring | Joseph Kenner | S5 E7
Imagine a hiring process where all you have to do is put your name on a list. Where you can earn a living wage regardless of your education, disability, race…
FUTURE OF XYZFuture of Purpose Trusts | Nathalie Reitman-White | S5 E6
How can companies ensure long-term mission alignment and drive value beyond just wealth creation for shareholders? Learn about the growing movement towards…