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Thought Starters — 79 episodes

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The Art of Writing - Writing for Love

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The Art of Writing - Creating The Ultimate Art Museum

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The Art of Writing - Writing Editorial

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Life Sciences - The Science of Consumer Psychology and The Senses

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Life Sciences - The Science of Pain

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Life Sciences - Connecting Science with Art

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Take it from China: two design trade shows on how Covid-19 will change their events forever, with Aroma Xie and Zhuo Tan

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Safe futures: what design can do and what it can't give up on, with DOGA's Benedicte Sunde and Vestre's Jan Christian Vestre

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The Museum of the Home with Sonia Solicari and Naila Yousuf

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A Journey through Style and Time: the RIBA and virtual reality with Shumi Bose and Fredrik Hellberg

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Kids go free: museums that design spaces for children, not about them, with the V&A's Philippa Simpson and architect Alan Maskin

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Next stop: A train station you actually want to spend time in, with Adam Scott and Hiro Aso

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Bringing Emirati crafts to the world stage with Her Excellency Reem BinKaram and Farah Nasri

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The future is ethical: how brands can help swing the pendulum, with Patrick Grant and Mat Heinl

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To Market, To Market: getting from design to metaphorical shop shelf, with Yves Behar and Asad Hamir

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The social media life of architecture, with Rob Fiehn and Adam Nathanial Furman

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How startups' need for fast offices is changing the design industry, with Rapt's David Galullo and Hem's Petrus Palmer

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Leading with Design: heritage brands vs start-ups, with Scott Newlin and Emily CM Anderson

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The surprisingly colourful world of North Korean architecture, with Oliver Wainwright and Cristiano Bianchi

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How we'll be getting around, with Deyan Sudjic and Philipp Rode

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A big shift in the world of start-ups, with Sophie Rochester and Miranda West

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Art or chair? The rise of collectible craft and furniture, with Fred Baier and James Shaw

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In praise of the prototype, with Riya Patel and Dean Brown

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The power of the smaller details, with Alex Gore and Timothy Smith

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Raimund Berthold and Dal Chodha on digital distraction and gender in fashion

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The do-it-all design work of Sella Concept

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The art of typography, with Alan Kitching and Anthony Burrill

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Creative change with James Turner and Zac Schwarz

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Why craft matters, with Hugo MacDonald and Natalie Melton

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The new crop of non-fiction with Kassia St Clair and Zahra Hankir

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Ronan McKenzie & Esrael Alem are redefining the mainstream aesthetic

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Celebrating social enterprises with Peter Holbrook CBE and Steve Coles

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Joyful design with Morag Myerscough and Ingrid Fetell Lee

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Architecture and VR – Softroom's Oliver Salway & Russell Potter of SODA

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Wolff Olins' Robert Jones and Jon Alexander of the New Citizenship Project

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British Vogue digital editor Alice Casely-Hayford and Refinery 29's Sarah Raphael

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Day 2 at LDF: V&A curator Rory Hyde and Digital Identities founder Abhay Adhikari

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Day 2 at LDF: Design curator Max Fraser and editor Priya Khanchandani

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Day 1 at LDF: V&A curator Johanna Agerman Ross and Tetsuo Mukai of Workshop for Potential Design

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Day 1 at LDF: architect Kelechi Odu and Thomas Matthews' Sophie Thomas

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Day 1 at LDF: The Design Museum's Sevra Davis and Seetal Solanki of Ma-tt-er

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Pushing London's Music Scene Forwards: Spiritland founder Paul Noble & Southbank Centre's Bengi Unsal

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Art Collecting with Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

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Designing for iconic cycle brand Rapha: Jack Saunders and Paul Barnes

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Jane Withers of Brompton Design District and Dzek's Brent Dzekciorius

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Neiheiser Argyros, the practice behind the Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

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What does a successful fashion brand look like? With Nathalie Khan and Art School's Eden Loweth

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Sustainability: What is it even? In conversation with FranklinTill founder Caroline Till and Carole Collet

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Curators of the Design Museum's 'Hope to Nope'

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Architect Farshid Moussavi and critic Phin Harper

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Gentlewoman editor Penny Martin and Liv Little of Gal Dem

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Keeping heritage brands alive with Cleverley and Huntsman

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Olympic Branding with Chris Moody of Wolff Olins and James Hurst of DesignStudio

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Intoart founder Ella Ritchie and educationalist Henry Ward

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Co-founder of the Airbnb Environments team, Aaron Taylor Harvey, and James Greenfield, co-founder of Koto.

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Designer Afroditi Krassa and Spandana Gopal of Tiipoi

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Haunted Machines: Natalie Kane and Tobias Revell

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Designer Yinka Ilori and Robin Chadha of CitizenM Hotels

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dRMM founder Alex de Rijke and Lee Mallett of Urbik

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Ace Hotel's Vickie Hayward and Laura Houseley, founder of Modern Design Review

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Mercedes Benson of SocialFixt and Dior Bediako, founder of Pepper Your Talk and The Junior Network

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Clara Gaggero Westaway of Special Projects and Dr. Nick Rhodes

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R/GA's Matt Webb and Jon Marshall of MAP

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Riposte editor Danielle Pender and Sabine Zetteler of Zetteler Creative Publicity

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The Gourmand's David Lane and Adam Saletti of Selavy Champagne

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Archivists Tory Turk and Carl Williams

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Architecture writers & critics John Grindrod and Tom Dyckhoff

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The Dots founder Pip Jamieson and Google's Nishma Robb

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G.F Smith's John Haslam and Leo Turner of Downey & Co.

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Designer Nelly Ben Hayoun and writer/curator Vicky Richardson

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Reba Maybury of Wet Satin Press and Baron Magazine's Matthew Holroyd

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Pentagram's Marina Willer and Nadine Chahine of Monotype

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Mubi Founder Efe Cakarel and David Jenkins, editor of Little White Lies

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Martin Cohen of 6up and Holition's Jonathan Chippindale

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Architect Sophie Goldhill and Albert Hill of The Modern House

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Holly Hay and Robert Storey

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Michael Anastassiades and Emily King

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No Such Thing as a Fish

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Introducing Thought Starters