Ben Gaydos's guest appearances

Ben Gaydos

We Are Climate Designers

Eric Benson

Jonny Black

Brian Quinn

Michael Leggett

Evan Hynes

Shana Dressler

Namita Dharia

Kika MacFarlane

Sanjana Sekhar

Cass Hebron

OwlTail

In this episode, recorded May 12, we sit down with the designers who collaborated on an updated version of the FirstThings First Manifesto, originally written by/for Graphic Designers in 1964.While keeping the humor and vision of the original manifesto, First Things First 2020 was written with a sense of urgency due to our climate emergency, along with the expectation that this decade is pivotal for people to proactively unite around social- and environmental justice-based climate action.Meet Namita Dharia, a socio-cultural anthropologist, PhD of Architecture, and the assistant professor of political economy at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies MA program.Ben Gaydos is the co-founder of Good Good and the chair of the art &amp; art history program at University of Michigan Flint.Listen to learn more about the work Ben and Namita are doing to bring relevant cross-disciplinary climate impact focused education to their design programs.Show notes at http://climatedesigners.org/podcast/105

In this episode, recorded May 12, we sit down with the designers who collaborated on an updated version of the FirstThings First Manifesto, originally written by/for Graphic Designers in 1964.While keeping the humor and vision of the original manifesto, <a href="https://firstthingsfirst2020.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">First Things First 2020</a> was written with a sense of urgency due to our climate emergency, along with the expectation that this decade is pivotal for people to proactively unite around social- and environmental justice-based climate action.Meet Namita Dharia, a socio-cultural anthropologist, PhD of Architecture, and the assistant professor of political economy at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the <a href="https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies MA program</a>.Ben Gaydos is the co-founder of <a href="https://www.goodgoodland.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Good Good</a> and the chair of the art &amp; art history program at University of Michigan Flint.Listen to learn more about the work Ben and Namita are doing to bring relevant cross-disciplinary climate impact focused education to their design programs.Show notes at <a href="http://climatedesigners.org/podcast/105" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://climatedesigners.org/podcast/105</a>

First Things First 2020 with Namita Dharia and Ben Gaydos