Season One: Lessons Learned
Episode 17 – Eric Benson & Marc O’Brien
Climate Designers co-founder Marc O’Brien joins Eric to discuss their eight major takeaways from season one of Climify. What did the climate experts think we should teach in the classroom? What impact did Climify have on the design community? What should we discuss on season two and who should we invite to the program?
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Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guest
Marc O’Brien
Marc O'Brien is a climate designer, strategist, and educator. He co-founded The Determined, a design strategy and creative consulting studio making climate-focused projects look good, sound awesome, be seen, and get the support they need.
Marc also co-founded Climate Designers, a hub for designers and creative professionals from all industries, committed to using our creative skills for climate action.
Since 2013, Marc has been teaching part time at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA where he teaches undergrads and grads in both the Graphic Design department and Interaction Design.
He geeks out talking about design and climate, how creativity can address global warming, and how designers can take climate action in the work they do. When not behind his laptop, he's out trail running, hiking, camping, traveling, hanging with friends at one of the many city parks, or exploring SF on my bamboo bike.
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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.
