Climify
Climate Designers
Climify is the podcast that connects climate scientists and design educators together so that we can help combat our climate crisis in our classrooms. The discussions on this program are geared to help you climify your syllab i to assign projects that not only teach design fundamentals but also can have a positive impact on our climate.
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12/14/22 • -1 min
Season 2: Episode 14 – Carissa Cabrera
How important are oceans to our climate? How vital are they to our general health? Did a video of an injured turtle really change the world? Marine Biologist and educator Carissa Cabrera joins Eric and explains it all through her work in media, science, and activism. You’ll learn from this episode that indeed there is an ocean of opportunity for designers for climate action; dive in.
Links mentioned on the show:
- Eric’s Mutant Fish prints
- Plastic straw removed from turtle’s nose (YouTube)
- Kiss the Ground film
- Pique Action
Carissa Cabrera is a marine conservationist and sustainability educator based out of Hawai'i working on ocean climate solutions through media. She co-founded The Conservationist Collective to make ocean climate action accessible to everyone and encourage people to find their place in the movement.
On the webThe Conservationist Collective
Sustainability & The Sea Podcast
Music in this episodeTheme music by Casual Motive
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
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03/09/22 • -1 min
Episode 1 – Deep Dive series
This episode references Climify’s Episode 8 – Shifting Designers to Tackle Climate Change
In this episode, we’re talking cross-pollination – within and outside of design, that is. Why are we so siloed in our ways of learning and working? Is staying within one focused discipline *really* the best option? Are there better ways we could collaborate and learn from one another’s expertise? There’s lots of benefits of bringing in other collaborators of different ages, interests, backgrounds, etc. And there’s a lot to be learned from a discipline outside of your own!
ResourcesWhy designers are siloed and how to break out of it
Breaking silos for a more collaborative design process
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcasts Special thanks to Noun Project for help with our episode artwork; University by Victoruler, Silo by Francielly Costantin Senra, Handshake by Amy MorganDeep Dive is a Climify miniseries that explores opportunities for climate education through the eyes of recent design students. As new grads now working the 9-to-5, we’ll discuss themes centering around climate design and what educators can do to approach these topics. The classroom needs to see more intersectionality between design and climate, and we’re here to advocate for that.
About our hostsRachel Cifarelli
Rachel is a freelance graphic designer and researcher using her skills to support and uplift those who are making the world a more sustainable place.
She received her B.A. in communication design from Elon University, where she realized she was actually good at designing content more extensive than birthday cards. Rachel also always knew she was an environmentalist, but it took her a long time to figure out how to blend these two passions of design and sustainability together. It wasn't until she discovered Climate Designers that she saw a whole new career path unfold in front of her, one where she could make a living doing something she loves. Today Rachel works with environmentally-minded organizations and businesses on projects like branding, fact sheets, promotional materials, and digital assets. Some of her clients include Sierra Club, Bedford 2030, and Brooklyn Organic Kitchen.
Rachel is also a researcher working on New Wave, a joint project with Climate Designers. What originally started as a class project during undergrad has grown into a sponsored research project that has garnered lots of support and participation. The goal of this research is to inform design educators how student designers understand sustainability in the design field and how they might like to see sustainability incorporated into their design curriculum. She wants to be part of establishing the climate design education in undergraduate universities that she never got from her own.
Outside of work, Rachel enjoys reading, taking walks around her neighborhood, and visiting the best local eateries and breweries in her town.
linkedin.com/in/rachelcifarelli
Grace Turcich
Grace is a Chicago-based graphic designer working at a marketing agency. She earned her BFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Graphic Design. Since Grace’s transition from a full-time student to a full-time employee, she wants to know what else she can do for the climate. As a new climate designer, she is constantly learning how design and climate are intersectional. Grace hopes t...
11/26/22 • -1 min
Season 2: Episode 13 – Gianna Romero & Michelle Ngyuen
What is it like to be a freelance designer who cares about the climate crisis? What are the challenges? What are the best practices to thrive? Recent graduates from the Univ. of Illinois graphic design (Michelle Nguyen) and SCAD industrial design (Gianna Romero) programs share their stories of trying to “design for good” while paying the bills. They also explain what ways their design education could have better prepared them for this journey.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guestMichelle Nguyen is a multidisciplinary designer passionate about creating effective design solutions for the common good. She especially takes an interest in exploring the intersection of design and sustainability.
Gianna Romero is a multidisciplinary Industrial Designer who specializes in humanizing products and building great brands. Her expertise includes product branding and package design, consumer research and interpretation, and the development and implementation of everyday products/brands. With her love of design diversity, she aims to make impactful decisions for brand values, the environment, and for good. Eco-conscious design is good design.
On the webMusic in this episodeTheme music by Casual Motive
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
Get Assignments Follow Climify on IG
11/18/22 • -1 min
Season 2: Episode 12 – Krishnaa Nair, Colin Chan, Meredith Bond, Noah Ahrens
How well are we preparing our design students for a career? Do we talk about climate and sustainability enough or effectively? What are our design students thinking and feeling about their education and future? Marc O'Brien guest hosts and learns from four California College of the Arts (CCA) design students about their insights into those questions and ideas to improve design education in part two of this two-part series called Climate Design in the Big World.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guestsKrishnaa Nair is an Indian digital artist from Haryana, born in Gujrat. She attends California College of the Arts and lives in the Bay Area. She enjoys art directing, creating visual identities for brands, collaborating with other artists, and finding unique, exciting new ways to solve problems.
Colin Chan is a product designer and an advocate for good. Based in San Francisco, CA. He traveled far from his home in Singapore to pursue the ability to inject his enthusiasm for technologies and human-centered interaction into a force of change. He believes in designing experiences in the way we want to treat others and ourselves. Colin’s philosophies guide his practice of learning, engaging, and re-learning again in the field of user experience while continually informing his values in applying truth, empathy, and compassion to problem-solving. Moving from communications to art, he is currently pursuing a BFA in Interaction Design at California College of the Arts with a minor in Computational Practices. He’s open to opportunities to learn, grow and serve meaningfully in this field and, more importantly, be part of a force for change.
Meredith Bond is a mixed-media artist and designer who loves scavenging for hidden things, trying out every idea, and being unrestrained in her work. She loves taking new routes, whether that be in her sketches or on the bus exploring the city, where she can find a good cafe or a funny hat shop. Where will she go next?
Noah Ahrens is a graduating interaction designer from San Francisco attending California College of the Arts. He grew up around California, mostly living in San Diego where he enjoys surfing when he's offline. Noah has previously worked at Capital One as a user experience designer and currently works for Heymarket on the design team. From a young age, Noah developed a passion for design on both visual and systemic levels. He aims to design by exploring and solving problems by focusing on improving individual lives as well as society as a whole.
Music in this episodeTheme music by Casual Motive
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
Get Assignments Follow Climify on IG
11/04/22 • -1 min
Season 2: Episode 10 – Brooke Havlik
The need for effective climate communication and storytelling is paramount to reach a public tipping point on important individual and political action. Good design and communication can shape any worldview and influence change. That is the good work Brooke Havlik had done for over a decade. In this episode, Brooke shares her vast experiences working in climate communication and effective strategies designers can use to turn the tide toward a better climate future.
This podcast is sponsored by Dreamhost.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsResources mentioned in this episode:
- Yale Program on Climate Communications
- Clean Creatives
- Covering Climate Now
- Data for Progress
- Climate Nexus
- DRILLED Podcast
Brooke is a strategic communications expert with over a decade of experience creating and executing global campaigns for human rights, climate, democracy, and science-based organizations. Through her consultancy business, Brooke Havlik Communications, Brooke works with nonprofits, philanthropy, and media outlets that are focused on impact.
Brooke is experienced in pursuing policy levers, narrative and culture change, storytelling, thought leadership, earned, owned, and paid media in order to achieve communications goals. She has advised philanthropy directors, influential nonprofit leaders, human rights advocates, and helped to conceptualize, design, and launch successful communications strategies. She has a keen ability to initiate, shape, and implement projects, using her network of relationships in key media markets, like New York City, D.C., and London. Brooke’s work shaping narratives has been featured in more than one hundred national and international news outlets, ranging from The Guardian and BBC to The Washington Post.
Prior to founding Brooke Havlik Communications, she served as a Communications Officer at Open Society Foundations, where she worked across several human rights programs. She served as the lead communications advisor for the Open Society Justice Initiative, often collaborating on complex legal campaigns in regional and international courts on issues such as press freedom, corruption, crimes against humanity, and ethnic discrimination.
At WE ACT for Environmental Justice, she served as the Communications Director, supporting climate communication and advocacy campaigns at the federal, state, and municipal level, as well as advising senior leadership, including Peggy Shepard. She began her media career at WGBH-Boston, writing, editing, and directing digital content for the award-winning science documentary series NOVA.
She is a judge for the Shorty Impact Awards, an international awards program created to raise global awareness around the positive impact that brands, agencies, and nonprofits can have on society. In her spare time, she coordinates Brooklyn Neighbors for Refugees, a volunteer-led community sponsorship program for Afghan refugees. Brooke lives in Brooklyn, NY..
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09/02/22 • -1 min
Season 2: Episode 7 – Gabrielle Merite
What convinces someone to commit to climate action? Why isn’t the terrifying data enough for some? Politics? Religion? Geography? Culture? Do we need better design? All of the above. Scientist and information designer Gabrielle Mérite explains why if you want to help convince people to act on the climate you want to connect to their culture and community, and maybe not mention the word climate at all.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guestOriginally from France, Gabrielle Mérite is an information designer specializing in empathetic data visualizations for truth-seeking, ethically driven organizations. Deeply passionate about social justice and humanity’s responsibility for one another, her work breathes life into numbers so people can genuinely feel their importance. After receiving an M.S in Biology and working for several years as a scientific journalist, she exchanged words for illustrations, to communicate analytic findings visually, with honesty and compassion. Since then, she has worked with ethically-driven and creative organizations like the United Nations, UNICEF, Pentagram, and WeTransfer, to help uncover truths and share them with intention.
On the web
Music in this episodeTheme music by Casual Motive
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
Get Assignments Follow Climify on IG
08/26/22 • -1 min
Season 2: Episode 6 – Stephen Nesbitt
Did you know low-lying clouds cool the climate or that communities designed in a grid can limit extreme weather events? We didn’t, and it’s likely fair to say you might not have either. In this episode, Atmospheric Scientist and Professor Stephen Nesbitt shares his expertise in clouds, meteorology, and climate technologies illuminating ways designers can create more climate resilient communities and engaging climate stories.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guestProf. Nesbitt leads a research group in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, where his research and teaching interests reside in the remote sensing of precipitation using radar and passive microwave sensors, mesoscale meteorology, cloud dynamics, and microphysics, land-atmosphere interaction, numerical simulation, data science, and high-performance computation. He has taught courses in synoptic and mesoscale meteorology and weather forecasting, remote sensing, radar meteorology, tropical meteorology, mesoscale modeling, and geophysical data analysis. He has participated in 21 field campaigns on 5 continents and was the principal investigator of the international NSF/NASA/NOAA RELAMPAGO field campaign to study high-impact weather in Argentina in 2018-2019, which studied the intersection of weather, climate, hydrology, high impact weather in subtropical South America.
On the webMusic in this episodeTheme music by Casual Motive
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
Get Assignments Follow Climify on IG
08/20/21 • -1 min
Episode 4 – Katharine Poole
Katharine Poole joins Eric to share how her skillsets as both a climate scientist and a brand designer are a perfect combination to craft better and more informed communication strategies for organizations and campaigns. She also explains why designers should reach out to climate scientists to collaborate as climate change needs a rebrand.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcasts About our guestKatharine Poole is a Climate Change Specialist and Designer with a Master's in Climate and Society from Columbia University. Most recently, she led the brand design for Twitter and climate journalist Eric Holthaus’ new local weather service, “Currently”. She’s focused on giving climate change the rebrand it deserves by integrating climate action with design.
On the webkatharinepoole.me
Ttwitter.com/katharinepoole
The musical guest is Alexander Roman from the band Free Paintings performing "She's Got Me Riding" from the album Free Paintings for Sale.
Theme music by Casual Motive
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
Get Assignments Follow Climify on IGEpisode Transcript
[00:00:57] Eric: Welcome to Climify I'm Eric Benson, and I'll be your host this season as we talk to climate experts from all over the world. To help us design educators fight the climate crisis in our classrooms. And yes, I'm also a design educator. I've been teaching for 15 years here at the University of Illinois.
[00:01:21] Eric: But even if you're not a design educator, listening to this show, there’s so much useful information jam packed in each. That you too can learn how to do your part to help reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
Today, I'm excited to have on the program. Katherine Poole. Katherine Poole is a climate change specialist and designer with a Master's in climate and society from Columbia University. Most recently she lived the brand design for Twitter and climate journalist, Eric Holthaus', new local weather service called Currently.
She's focused on giving climate change. The rebrand it deserves by integrating climate action. With design. You can follow Katherine on Twitter at Katherinepoole. That's K AT H A R I N E P O O L E. And you can find her online at Katherinepoole. Me.
Katherine, it's wonderful to meet you. I'm glad that you're here. And so, let's get started really with the basics, you know, who are you, what do you do? And, and where do you do it?
[00:02:32] Katharine: I'm a climate change specialist and designer. I have a master's from the Climate and Society Program at Columbia University, where I studied. The intersection of climate and how it impacts the people, places and things that we all care about. Um, currently I'm specializing in brand design and content creation, some communication strategy for climate related organizations and campaigns.
Previous to that, uh, I was teaching climate mitigation and adaptation at Clinton University and also at a climate education nonprofit. And most recently and currently working with Twitter and climate journalists, Eric Holthaus', doing brand design for his new collaborative weather service called Currently.
[00:03:24] Eric: You're the perfect guest, because you know, both things that were, we wanted to talk about today, climate and design. And so h...
08/19/22 • -1 min
Season 2: Episode 5 – Chandra Christmas-Rouse
What do you want your community to look like? What would you like our future to be? We are all part of the problem and the solution. The future isn’t written and the climate crisis will unfold based on our collective and individual actions. It can be a terrible global catastrophe or a more managed set of problems that we can adapt to. What if we chose to restore our communities and the natural world instead of falling into despair and inaction? Urban planner and afrofuturist Chandra Christmas Rouse shares in this episode how her faith in design and humanity can create a world we want and deserve.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guestChandra Christmas-Rouse joined Metropolitan Planning Council in March 2022 as Equitable and Sustainable Communities Manager. A background in community development and environmental justice informs her design approach of working with community stakeholders in a participatory process to support capacity building, achieve place-based solutions, and reimagine systems. Chandra supports MPC’s housing and water policy and equitable transit-oriented development (eTOD) programs by advancing research, policy advocacy, and outreach efforts.
Prior to joining MPC, Chandra developed program, policy, and capital initiatives with local partners that focus on environmental resilience, equitable transit-oriented development (eTOD), and healing-centered engagement at Enterprise Community Partners. Her past experiences include integrating policy and strategy consulting with technical knowledge to advance economic mobility and sustainability for a number of organizations and firms including UN-Habitat and Jacobs Engineering Group.
Additionally, as an interdisciplinary creative and educator, Chandra creates participatory projects that engage local Black geographies, histories, and spatial imaginaries. She has been named a 2020 Threewalls RaDLab+Outside the Walls Artist Fellow. She serves as the co-chair of Elevated Chicago and on the board of Equiticity. Chandra holds a BA in Environmental Sciences & Policy with distinction from Duke University and a Master of Urban Planning from Harvard Graduate School of Design.
On the webMusic in this episodeTheme music by Casual Motive
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
Get Assignments Follow Climify on IG
06/07/23 • -1 min
Climate and social systems are profoundly connected.
Interconnectedness, in turn, can be an overwhelming double-edged sword—an ‘infobesity’ that buries clear paths forward to act against the systemic climate inequities rippling across society. In Sage Lenier’s justice-oriented activism, she has come to find that environmental education is largely non-existent. Perhaps, the biggest stopgap is that no one knows about the problems that make up the larger problem. This is what Sage sees as a barrier to the climate movement gaining traction: a lack of quality education.
Sustainable & Just Future salvages the demoralization within climate change into an educated understanding of the ecological systems that sustain us. On this episode, we are joined by a Time's 2023 Next Generation Leader and YPCCC Public Voice Fellow, whose work creates huge strides within Project Drawdown’s Education and Equity by reforming education systems with student-led climate initiatives and advocacy campaigns, educator-led curriculum (re)design and digital programming. For-youth-by-youth dissemination of knowledge translates Gen Z solutions into meaningful shifts toward reforming the ways all generations sustain the health, equity, and quality of our natural resources and the planet.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Climify have?
Climify currently has 70 episodes available.
What topics does Climify cover?
The podcast is about Design, How To, Podcasts, Education and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Climify?
The episode title 'Gen Z Claps Back at Climate Doomers: Youth-Led Activism in Education Reform' is the most popular.
How often are episodes of Climify released?
Episodes of Climify are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Climify?
The first episode of Climify was released on Mar 11, 2019.
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