{"podcast":{"title":"Design Emergency","slug":"design-emergency-5826807","podcast_index_feed_id":5826807,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6376036839b22e00111c4121","website_url":"https://www.instagram.com/design.emergency/?hl=en","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1668678490381-f05c1a3801c41a2e85f471d90025b9ca.jpeg","author":"Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli","episode_count":54,"summary":"Welcome to Design Emergency, where the design curator Paola Antonelli and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will introduce you to the inspiring and ingenious designers whose success in tackling major challenges – from the climate emergency and refugee crisis, to ensuring that new technologies affect us positively, not negatively – gives us hope for the future. Follow our Instagram @design.emergency to see images of all the design projects described in each episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807"},"episode":{"title":"Maya Bird-Murphy on Architecture and Communities","slug":"maya-bird-murphy-on-architecture-and-communities","published_at":"2025-09-09T23:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/maya-bird-murphy-on-architecture-and-communities","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807","url":"https://shows.acast.com/design-emergency/episodes/68c035f0f7970b080f9923d5","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6376036839b22e00111c4121/e/68c035f0f7970b080f9923d5/media.mp3","summary":"How can we empower more people, particularly young people from disinvested communities, to engage with architecture, and to use it as a tool to improve their daily lives and future prospects? Maya Bird-Murphy, the Chicago-based architect and educator, tells Alice Rawsthorn how she is addressing this through the Mobile Makers programme of youth workshops and community engagement projects. . Maya describes how she launched Mobile Makers as a non-profit in 2017 and drove a retrofitted mail truck around Chicago to deliver after-school programmes, summer camps and field trips. Mobile Makers now operates from a permanent space in Humboldt Park, Chicago, and has launched programmes in Boston, Massachusetts and Aspen, Colorado. At a time of growing interest in socially engaged architecture and design, particularly among young designers, Maya describes the pros and cons of running a non-profit, and her plans to create a network of architects and social designers who are committed to developing radically new ways of working. . We hope you’ll enjoy this episode . You can find images of the projects Maya describes on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from inspiring global design leaders who are in the forefront of forging positive change. . Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"How can we empower more people, particularly young people from disinvested communities, to engage with architecture, and to use it as a tool to improve th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1505,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-emergency-5826807/episodes/maya-bird-murphy-on-architecture-and-communities/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/maya-bird-murphy-on-architecture-and-communities.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}