Episode 33: Amanda Stanaway from Woods Bagot talks about workplace design and the changing workplace

With over 20 years of design experience working in Brisbane, London and Sydney, Amanda Stanaway has been building Woods Bagot‘s workplace portfolio for 12 years. In this episode of Talking Architecture and Design, Stanaway gets to flex her design knowledge across major projects which has helped her build a strong understanding of the ways that industry and design intertwine.

Stanaway brings an awareness of the commercial needs in an ever-changing world of work and workplaces.

Amanda Stanaway

Amanda Stanaway, Principal of Woods Bagot Sydney, sits at the forefront of workplace design, currently working with a broad portfolio of corporate clients worldwide. Her role encompasses strategy and interior design across the commercial, lifestyle and public sectors. This mix of skills and diversity of knowledge provides a unique, comprehensive and innovative approach to projects and products for her clients.

Episode 32: Talking Architecture & Design speaks with PTW Architects director Diane Jones

 

Diane Jones speaks about her extensive experience in heritage, justice, civic, integrated communities and therapeutic environment projects that are guided by the principle that architectural spaces and settings gain their meaning through the experiences of people and by a strong sense of responsibility to the wider community and environment.

Diane Jones

Director of PTW Architects Diane Jones is committed to evidence-based research and multi-disciplinary collaborations which inform her approach to advancing architecture as a practice and as a discipline intersection.

Episode 31: Ros Moriarty talks about the increasing understanding and appreciation of Indigenous design

Ros Moriarty is managing director and co-founder of both Balarinji and the Moriarty Foundation.

Moriarty, who is best known for the Balarinji-Qantas collection of art aircraft featuring Aboriginal designs, talks about why Indigenous design matters and how it is becoming more important for architects and designers alike to understand and appreciate the 65,000-year old culture from where it evolved. 

Ros Moriarty

Ros Moriarty is a business owner, social investor and author. She is Managing Director and Co-Founder of both Balarinji and the Moriarty Foundation.

Balarinji is a Sydney-based strategy and design business best known for the Balarinji-Qantas collection of art aircraft featuring Aboriginal designs. Established 35 years, Balarinji’s work for public and private sectors spans public art and curatorial, cultural design principles for major infrastructure, stakeholder engagement, branding campaigns and digital. The studio’s clients include Qantas, Microsoft, Caltex, Aurecon, WSP, Transport for NSW, Downer EDI, Lendlease, Woods Bagot, Hassell and the Australian Paralympic Committee.

Episode 30: Koos de Keijzer gives an insight into urban design, what architects should be designing and the future of urban planning

Koos de Keijzer speaks with Talking Architecture & Design on what it takes to do great design in our ever-expanding urban environments.

Koos de Keijzer

Koos de Keijzer, founding partner and principal of DKO Architecture has both a passion in typology research and an ongoing commitment to architectural integrity, contemporary residential development and the inherent beauty of applying simple design principles.

Episode 29: We speak with Jodie Taylor, International Towers’ head of Marketing & Stakeholder Engagement

During FRONT 2019, we sat down with International Towers’ (Barangaroo) head of Marketing & Stakeholder Engagement, Jodie Taylor, to talk about, corporate design, her Indigenous heritage and how the Big End of Town is learning to embrace and promote Australia’s rich and deep Indigenous heritage.

Jodie Taylor

Jodie is a former ABC news journalist turned corporate affairs and crisis communications specialist, with a particular passion for progressing Indigenous engagement and social change. 

As an Indigenous woman, Jodie is passionate about utilising her broadcast media and stakeholder engagement skills to drive diversity and inclusion across diverse landscapes, creating exceptional customer and employee experiences – and taking a strategic approach to marketing and reputation management.

Jodie has been involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mentoring and engagement initiatives throughout her career. She proactively pitched the concept for Qantas’ now successful Indigenous Cadet Pilot scholarship and worked directly with the airline’s Chief Pilot to fast track the initiative.

Jodie Chaired Lendlease’s Indigenous Engagement and Diversity and Inclusion Committees across Sydney’s Barangaroo precinct – Australia’s largest urban regeneration development from 2018 – January 2020.


Episode 28: Talking Architecture & Design speaks with David Kaunitz on disaster architecture and urban design

David Kaunitz speaks with Talking Architecture & Design about working in the UK, his time in the Solomon Islands and the importance of disaster architecture and what his experiences have taught him about designing better urban places

David Kaunitz

David Kaunitz co-founded Kaunitz Yeung Architecture with his wife Ka Wai Yeung following his return to Sydney after living seven years in the UK included, five as a director of a large practice running its London studio where he worked on some of the largest projects in Europe, including the Barnsley Interchange and The London Olympic Village for clients such as HSBC, Marks & Spencer and Lendlease.

His long association with the Pacific Islands, and the Solomon Islands in particular, and post disaster experience in South East Asia and the Pacific working for clients such as UNICEF, UNHCR and World Vision has allowed Kaunitz to develop both an outlook and style that is truly unique.  

Episode 27: Talking Architecture & Design talks with Simone Oliver from Architectus about the future of workplace design

“The nature of work has radically changed,” says Simone Oliver, national sector leader – interior architecture at Architectus and Ambassador to FRONT.design 2019. “The rise of technology, automation, globalisation” – these are the big-picture forces driving change.

On the ground, we see it play out through rapidly growing markets like the gig economy and co-working. Influenced by a clashing of typologies in which seemingly disparate markets like social media, education and hospitality bring new depth to what was a clearly delineated field of reference.

Simone Oliver outlines the defining design influences in workplace design of our time and the role the architecture profession plays within those influences.

Simone Oliver

With a career spanning 25 years, Simone Oliver has led creative teams to develop award-winning workplace, hospitality and learning communities for some of the world’s foremost companies and institutions. She is responsible for driving the overall strategy, business development and project delivery of workplace, education, and interior architecture projects.

Working closely with clients, Simone creates smart and beautiful signature environments that are characterised by an approach that celebrates the human condition, and support transformational change in the way people think, feel and act. The tangible benefits to her clients often lie in increased engagement by users in learning, knowledge sharing, health, wellbeing and workplace happiness.

Episode 26: Talking Architecture & Design speaks to with Dyson’s Will Darvill & Associate Professor Sean Cain from Monash University

In Episode 26 of Talking Architecture & Design, we talk innovation, design, disruption and of course what’s the latest cool gadget from the super-innovative engineers at Dyson.

Featuring Dyson’s Will Darvill & Associate Professor Sean Cain from Monash University, this podcast talks about light technology, circadian lighting, lighting as a recuperative solution and how we are on the cutting edge of a new revolution in new lighting design, lighting usage and the recent launch of Lightcycle, the latest in Dyson technology.

Sean Cain

Sean Cain is an expert in circadian rhythms. He is the current President on the Australasian Chronobiology Society. His laboratory focuses on individual differences in the sensitivity of the circadian system to light and how these differences lead to poor health outcomes, including sleep disorders, metabolic disease, and depression.

Will Darville

Will Darville leads a global technical engineering and product management team – working on class leading products which combine patented technologies, complex embedded electronics, and which are paired with connected solutions for enhanced user experience.
His is responsible for the strategy, execution and delivery of a roadmap of projects, along with current support, and end of life activities.
With more than 9 years experience in developing specialist and consumer products, Darville has a proven track record of delivery in a technically challenging and fast paced industry, all whilst maintaining high standards of reliability and safety. 

Episode 25: Robyn Lindsey, Geyer’s innovation and thought leader talks retail design, generational change & wellness

Previously a partner of Geyer – a leading independent interior design practice – Robyn Lindsey has worked with some of Australia’s leading organisations, including Westpac Group at International Towers to develop human-centred experiences and environments.

Robyn Lindsey

Robyn Lindsey holds an MBA focussing on innovative leadership and strategy for competitive advantage, which together with her creative design background, brings a unique approach to creating new business opportunities and future-focussed outcomes.

Episode 24: Greg Frid from Project Friday talks about ageing in place, urban design and house & land pricing

We look at ageing strategies and ageing in place and how this affects our built environment and investment strategies with special guest Greg Frid of Project Friday.

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Greg Frid

Greg Frid is one half of Project Friday, along with his co-director Jordan Seigel. With an emphasis on developing bespoke designed and built homes in Melbourne, Project Friday meticulously crafts each project to focus on the human scale. For Project Friday, the human scale is an environment that the individual can thrive in; both now and for years to come.