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I’ve been fortunate enough to have my visibility supported by a permanent Google Knowledge Panel for several years. A Google Knowledge Panel or GKP is a search result in Google for public figures that includes a more rich search result with imagery and links to secondary sources or distinguished sources, pulling your content together from across the web. For an independent scholar to have this is pure luck, but hard work as well as I’ve monitored and optimized so this GKP would grow and get richer and more abundant over time. #UNIQUEWAYS #DesignPodcast #DesignLeadership#CreativePractice @google

I’m at the Design Vancouver Festival closing party, a cosy gathering sprawled outside in a public venue here in my home base of Cambie Village. My go-to cafe is next door to this event, feels like a full circle moment. From seeing this event open at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre to is close here in Cambie Villsge, I can’t help but think how much design has grown and evolved and in a way grown up in Vancouver. New faces and voices reveal themselves, and show that with a bit of resilience we can really make this community go places. #UNIQUEWAYS #DesignPodcast #DesignLeadership#CreativePractice @designvanfest

I’ve been hearing in the ether that the future is in the physical world - garage sales, craft fairs, farmers markets etc. and so in this spirit I’m heading to Vancouver’s Beaumont Studios to hear a talk by a local Vancouverite named Carson Ting. Ting did for work for FIFA World Cup shown here in Vancouver but also earned his way into the local spotlight, stage, speaking etc.. #UNIQUEWAYS #DesignPodcast #DesignLeadership#CreativePractice @creativepulse

Getting my steps in! Queen Elizabeth Park is just steps away from the UNIQUEWAYS podcast recording studio and I’m making a habit of walking up here more often. I feel like Alice when I come up here, in an over-the-top beautiful world that I happened to get plunked into and get to sample from and enjoy. Mel Robbin’s inspired me through one of her guests to get that huffing-puffing exercise in, so I’m trying! #UNIQUEWAYS #DesignPodcast #DesignLeadership#CreativePractice

“I travel a lot but when I’m not travelling I try to pack all of my meetings in a few days so I can have some completely open days to do focused intellectual work so my day started at 930 taping down on the gallery floor my next exhibition to make sure there is enough room” - Paola Antonelli on UNIQUEWAYS - https://youtu.be/lOjRW-FINC4?si=5u2OdbKFTWNg9-OL - #UNIQUEWAYS #DesignPodcast #DesignLeadership#CreativePractice

“Design is not neutral and is not born out of clean air it is born out of traditions, reactions against traditions, continuation of traditions and there’s no design without place and there’s no place without design so they are very much intertwined” - Paola Antonelli on UNIQUEWAYS - https://youtu.be/lOjRW-FINC4?si=5u2OdbKFTWNg9-OL - #UNIQUEWAYS #DesignPodcast #DesignLeadership#CreativePractice

Hey everyone! 👋 Just dropped S02 E08 In-Person with the incredible Joyce Croft (former Senior Lead Human-Centered Designer at NASA JPL, now at Gallup in San Francisco)! She flew in to Vancouver! From leading design at JPL’s Innovation Foundry — turning complex mission ideas into reality alongside aerospace engineers — to her Config 2024 talk on design as emotional therapy in high-pressure environments, Joyce shared so much wisdom. Highlights you’ll love: • Her superpower: Reading any room and keeping the human element front and center in tech. • Advice to her younger self: Stay flexible and adaptable — plans always change! • Tools: Pen & paper for ideation + smart AI integration (research plans, synthesis, modular design prompts). • Mantra: “Return the gifts that life has given to you.” • One word for herself: Playful. Watch the full in-person episode now: YouTube → https://youtu.be/JAI0owoG9Xw?si#UniqueWays #InPersonEpisode #JoyceCroft #NASAJPL #HumanCenteredDesign #DesignPodcast