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Host Erin Peavey explores how our lives shape and are shaped by design. Through interviews, science, and storytelling she reveals the hidden power of architecture and design to make us healthier, happier and more connected....

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Best of Season 2: Design for Health, Happiness and Connection

In this special Best Of Shared Space Season 2! We talk with architects, psychologist, designers, activists, writers, urban planners – a host of am...

Building Connection, One Alley at a Time

In this episode, I speak with community leaders, and all-around good neighbors, Judy Sullivan and Meg Moschetto of the <a href="https://www.cochran-heights.com/">Cochrane H...

Fighting Workplace Loneliness By Design - with Nigel Oseland

How do our workplaces and practices impact loneliness? How can you design for connection of all kinds? In 2019, <a href="https://www.cigna.com/about-us/newsroom/studie...

Social Capital, The Currency of Community - with Mario Small

Dr. <a href="https://www.mariosmall.com/">Mario Luis Small</a> grew up in Panama City, the son of an architect in a tight knit community of other families. He learned first...

Building a Better Block with Andrew Howard

How can a one-day event spark lasting change? How can community design be open sourced? What should we be measuring if we want to gauge positive change? I talk with ...

Designing Equitable Communities with June Grant

June Grant is an architect, designer and researcher committed to the craft of buildings, their potential to enhance cities and develop socially responsible solutions to com...

Community First - Designing to End Homelessness in Austin with Shelby Blessing

What is the most talked about neighborhood in Austin, TX? The <a href="https://mlf.org/community-first/">Community First! Village</a>, a 51-acre master planned village that...

Designing Happy Cities with Mitchell Reardon

Can our cities be designed to make us happier? What is the role of public space in fostering a more civil society? Can street design foster trust – or even romance? ...

The Science Behind Healthy Buildings with Emily Anthes

Emily Anthes is an award-winning science journalist and author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Atlantic Wired, Nature, to name a few. Emily h...

Design with Love, At Home and In Community with Katie Swenson

Katie Swenson is a nationally recognized design leader, researcher, writer, and educator, and a Senior Principal at MASS Design Group. Katie and I explore how love can be a po...

Shared Space Trailer: Season 2

Last season on Shared Space, we explored the research behind design for connection, exploring evidence-based strategies to foster community and belonging. This season, we a...

Holidays On My Mind: Strategies for Feeling Well & Fighting Loneliness

This holiday season is unlike any other for most of us. In this episode, I try something a little different, share a little more of myself, and share strategies for navigat...

Choice: Designing for Variety, Flexibility, and Control in Social Connection

Have you ever walked into an office and seen a sea of cubicles and wondered - how is anyone supposed to get work done here? How can I have private conversation with colleag...

Design for Connection Through Cancer Care with Kati Peditto

Today on Shared Space, I talk with <a href="https://www.katipeditto.com/">Kati Peditto</a> PhD, an award winning environmental psychologist from <a href="https://www.human....

Fighting Loneliness and Finding Belonging - with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lundstad

How does our hardwiring for human connection impact how we experience the world? What can you do to combat loneliness and create social wellbeing in your life? Does where you ...

Design for Safe Connection Through COVID-19 in Senior Housing and Beyond with Patricia Gruits

Do you ever wonder how can we socially connect and still be safe? What is the role of the design of the physical spaces around us? What strategies could work for both you, ...

How To Design for Comfort: Human Scale

This week's podcast we dig into one of the <a href="https://www.hksinc.com/how-we-think/research/connecting-irl-how-the-built-environment-can-foster-social-health/">six att...

How Architecture Can Foster Inclusion with Maya Bird-Murphy

In this episode, Maya and I explore how architecture can help create community and foster inclusion – how often it’s purposefully designed to exclude and how we can change ...

Accessibility: How to Create Places That Are Safe, Inclusive, and Walkable

On this episode we discuss the importance of designing accessible and inclusive places of connection. When we use universal design principles that honor the human experienc...

The Psychology of Places of Connection with Dr. Colin Ellard [Part 2 of 2]

I speak with acclaimed author, researcher, TEDx speaker, and professor of environmental psychology, Dr. Colin Ellard. Part 2: On the second half of our two-part epis...

The Psychology of Places of Connection with Dr. Colin Ellard [Part 1 of 2]

I speak with acclaimed author, researcher, TEDx speaker, and professor of environmental psychology, Dr. Colin Ellard. Part 1: On this first part of our two-part epis...

Places of Connection: The Role of Public Space in Our Social Health

The prehistoric Stonehenge monument and other archaeological sites offer ample evidence of human  civilization’s enduring need for communal gathering spaces, those pla...

The Built Environment, Loneliness and Our Health

Many people see health as the responsibility of clinicians, nutritionists, and other health care professionals. Yet it has become clear that although vitally important, cli...

Loneliness and Our Health

Have you ever felt lonely, and looked at how your it felt inside your body? Perhaps you felt stress, anxiety or like a foundational part of being alive was missing? That fe...

Intro to Shared Space, The Podcast!

COVID-19, the resulting stay at home orders, social distancing, and ultimately the social isolation that we've had to go through has been tough for our mental health as nat...