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Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but their toys, classrooms, and playgrounds are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades—even centuries—of ideas about good child-rearing versus bad. What is the Good Toy? Is it wooden, plastic, or even digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can our built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates, parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle.

Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and rapidly evolving digital experiences, and designers are starting to be included in strategic conversations about the products and services that enterprises ultimately deliver. This has led to companies building in-house digital/experience design teams at unprecedented rates, but many of them don’t understand how to get the most out of their investment.

Five minutes until the interview begins. Fresh on the heels of her college graduation, Cameron Heart has landed an interview at a prestigious architecture firm. Four minutes until the interview. She knows she's only there because the owner, Grayson Cole, is her older sister's friend. Three minutes. For the last seven years, Grayson has been the most intimidating man Cammie has ever had the pleasure - or displeasure - of being around.

So much passes us by unnoticed. We multitask, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift and our soul is restored. Designer Alan Moore invites us to rethink not only what we produce - whether it's a website, a handmade chair, or a business - but how and why.

The Nature of Fashion is an epic sweep through history, revealing how plants have been used to make and dye our clothes. Textiles have transformed the human world–and the natural world. Now we need to re-root clothes-making in plants, rather than plastic, to find a new material future. Fashion is at a turning point–to look forward, we need to look back.

Welcome to Material Forum, the official podcast from ecomedes exploring the future of sustainable building. Material Forum brings you conversations with thought leaders and innovators who are driving meaningful change in the building industry. Each episode explores cutting-edge building science, innovative products, and forward-thinking approaches to sustainable construction that are reshaping how we build our communities.

Material Matters features in-depth interviews with a variety of designers, makers and artists about their relationship with a particular material or technique. Hosted by writer and critic Grant Gibson. Follow Grant on Insta @material.matters_grant.gibson

It's All Material is a podcast for and by creatives. Let’s think of it as an artist’s memoirs in audio. Hosted by Aubrey DS.Shared experiences remind us that we are not alone in our struggles, in our circumstances, in our journey. If you’re troubled or stuck and you need some inspiration, or maybe you just enjoy listening to stories of creatives just like you, this is the place to be.

Trace Material breaks down the building blocks of our constructed environment, one material at a time. What can plastic tell us about suburbanization? What does redlining have to do with lead paint? And how did a president’s bias shape what our walls are made of?

More Than Materials with Dallas Gabriel, President at Willis, and John Topic, the Director of Marketing, is a podcast for design junkies that explores exciting design ideas, inspirational concepts, technical aspects and so much more with our guests each episode. At Willis, we describe ourselves as curators of premium design materials and aim to inspire, educate, and solve even the most complex surfacing design challenges.

Throughout this season we are talking to people who lead, plan, design, build, facilitate and push through change within the built environment. Our aim is simple, to leave you informed and inspired. Enjoy.