About this podcast
Our future is undecided—how will we use our collective imagination to design a better world for all?
Through unfiltered conversations, we unpack today's challenges through the lens of creativity and possibility to motivate designers to take meaningful action.
Explore bold, innovative ideas that shift away from the current paradigm towards a regenerative future.
The mission of Climate Designers is to empower designers to learn, connect, and act on climate solutions. Our vision for the future is to activate the global design community to co-create a just and regenerative world.
Episodes
- Jasmine Bina · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 5Marc sits down with Jasmine Bina, cultural futurist and founder of Concept Bureau, to dig into why rooms full of people who believe in climate action still fail to act on it…
- Thinknado · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 4We sit down with our friends John Bielenberg and Brandt Williams, creators of Thinknado, to explore how creativity, AI, and a willingness to “think wrong” can unlock more…
- Drew Wilkinson · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 3In episode two, we talk to Drew Wilkinson, former Microsoft employee who turned a two-person sustainability group into a ten-thousand-person climate movement inside the company…
- Dr. Renee Lertzman · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 2In season two of Doom & Bloom we’re focusing on how designers can shift the culture within the design industry to prioritize climate-forward design decisions. We kicked off the…
- Season 2 trailer · 1 min · Season 2 Episode 1We are back with a new season of Doom & Bloom! This time, we're unpacking how designers can shift the culture within the design industry. We all know designers want to make their…
- Childlike Waterpark · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 9Join the Doom & Bloom team for the final episode of Season 1 as they look back on everything, from Jolly Sand to Unlikely Peaches to Gorilla Hard and beyond. The crew digs into…
- Gorilla Hard · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 8What if sustainability isn’t the selling point? In this episode, we sit down with Carly Schonberg, NYC Chapter Leader and product designer leading a renewable energy company, to…
- Fancy Port · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 7We sit down with design educator Stevie Bales to tackle a big question: How can designers nudge decision makers toward climate action? We unpack why decision makers should be…
- Sudden Skyscrapers · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 6In this episode of Doom and Bloom, Eric Benson and Marc O’Brien join us to ask some big questions: Why is climate being erased from federal budgets? Why is climate literacy still…
- Fancy Pug · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this special episode recorded live during San Francisco Climate Week, Marc O’Brien and Katie Patrick dig into why we’re stuck in a doom-heavy narrative—and what it’ll take to…
- Integrity Ballet · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 4In this episode of Doom & Bloom, we’re joined by UX/UI designer and New Wave researcher Zoe to unpack a big question: why have designers become so focused on short-term results?…
- Unlikely Peaches · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 3Why are we still gatekeeping designs? Why do we prioritize competition over collaboration? Why do we assume we have all the answers before asking others? On the latest episode of…
- Jolly Sand · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 2Why isn’t sustainability at the core of every project? Why are people still asking what sustainability even means? And why isn’t it baked into our education system? These…
- What is Thinknado? · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 1In the first episode of Doom and Bloom, Marc O’Brien sits down with John Bielenberg and Brandt Williams, the masterminds behind Thinknado, to dismantle the predictable thinking…
- Doom & Bloom Trailer · 1 min · Season 1 Episode 1Doom & Bloom cuts through the noise to the heart of design and climate action Our future is undecided—how will we use our collective imagination to design a better world for…
