Welcome to the Doing Design podcast on This is HCD. Hosted by all the the worlds best live design and innovation trainers at This is Doing.com - 

For regular listeners you’ll know what we do at This is Doing - home of many of the world’s best trainers in the spaces of Design Research, Service Design, UX and more.

In this episode I speak with the brilliant Gerry McGovern about the story behind his exciting and very much needed course Earth Experience Design - we answer some community based questions about this topic as well as talk about the disassociation of behaviours that persist within the creators of online products and tools. 
https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-design-january-2022

Welcome to the Doing Design podcast on This is HCD. Hosted by all the the worlds best live design and innovation trainers at <a href="https://www.thisisdoing.com">This is Doing.com</a> -&nbsp;
For regular listeners you&rsquo;ll know what we do at This is Doing - home of many of the world&rsquo;s best trainers in the spaces of Design Research, Service Design, UX and more.
In this episode I speak with the brilliant Gerry McGovern about the story behind his exciting and very much needed course Earth Experience Design - we answer some community based questions about this topic as well as talk about the disassociation of behaviours that persist within the creators of online products and tools.&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-design-january-2022</li>
</ul>

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This podcast brings together thought-leaders from various disciplines such as service design, user experience, interaction design, and product management to discuss the craft, and to better understand what it means to work within a human-centric method.

This is HCD is the Number 1 human-centered design podcast on the internet!
We aim to educate and empower about human-centered design.
This podcast brings together thought-leaders from various disciplines such as service design, user experience, interaction design, and product management to discuss the craft, and to better understand what it means to work within a human-centric method.

This Is HCD is focussed on capturing a representative voice of the industry by helping close the gap between experience levels.

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In this podcast we will speak about all the behind the scenes things related to actually DOING Design, such as Design Research, Service Design, UX, Content Design, Product Management - you&rsquo;ll get to hear from all the wonderful trainers and hear about new things that they are working on, and collaborations that in the pipes.

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Gerry McGovern 'Earth Experience Design'

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Dr. Josh Lepawsky is fascinated by connections between geography, technological systems, and their discards. He researches waste from the manufacturing of electronics to its end of life. He explores where e-waste accumulates and who it affects. He has a keen interest in “how maintenance and repair might offer lessons for figuring out how to live well together in permanently polluted and always breaking worlds. I started our chat by asking Josh about the “pernicious myth of digital-as-ethereal”
https://electronicplanet.xyz/
https://mun.ca/geography/people/faculty/josh-lepawsky/
Gerry McGovern Twitter / https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern
World Wide Waste Book / https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/
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Dr. Josh Lepawsky is fascinated by connections between geography, technological systems, and their discards. He researches waste from the manufacturing of electronics to its end of life. He explores where e-waste accumulates and who it affects. He has a keen interest in “how maintenance and repair might offer lessons for figuring out how to live well together in permanently polluted and always breaking worlds. I started our chat by asking Josh about the “pernicious myth of digital-as-ethereal”
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronicplanet.xyz/">https://electronicplanet.xyz/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mun.ca/geography/people/faculty/josh-lepawsky/">https://mun.ca/geography/people/faculty/josh-lepawsky/</a></li>
<li>Gerry McGovern Twitter / <a href="https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern">https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern</a></li>
<li>World Wide Waste Book / <a href="https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/">https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/</a></li>
<li>Read transcript / <a href="https://www.thisishcd.com">https://www.thisishcd.com</a></li>
</ul>

Josh Lepawsky 'Pernicious myth of digital-as-ethereal'

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Gauthier Roussilhe has specialized in the environmental footprint of the digital sector for 5 years, and is certainly among the most knowledable people I have been lucky to chat with about these issues. He is currently doing a PhD at the RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) to explore which digital infrastructures and services are compatible with a world stabilized at +2°C. I started our chat by asking Gauthier about the electricity impact of data centers.

Global figures are not reliable. We need to look at a country-level basis. 

“I don’t know what it’s like in Ireland but in France between now and 2050, we have to reduce our final energy consumption by 40%. That’s the framing we have to have in mind when we are analyzing such sectors. You can have all the data centers in Ireland absorbing all the renewable energy capacity that is being put on the grid. So, data centers might have very nice environmental reports, lowering the carbon intensity of the electricity mix but now allowing other actors to get this renewable energy, so it becomes a zero-sum game.”
Gauthier website / https://gauthierroussilhe.com
Gerry McGovern Twitter / https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern
World Wide Waste Book / https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/
Read transcript / https://www.thisishcd.com

Gauthier Roussilhe has specialized in the environmental footprint of the digital sector for 5 years, and is certainly among the most knowledable people I have been lucky to chat with about these issues. He is currently doing a PhD at the RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) to explore which digital infrastructures and services are compatible with a world stabilized at +2°C. I started our chat by asking Gauthier about the electricity impact of data centers.
Global figures are not reliable. We need to look at a country-level basis. 
“I don’t know what it’s like in Ireland but in France between now and 2050, we have to reduce our final energy consumption by 40%. That’s the framing we have to have in mind when we are analyzing such sectors. You can have all the data centers in Ireland absorbing all the renewable energy capacity that is being put on the grid. So, data centers might have very nice environmental reports, lowering the carbon intensity of the electricity mix but now allowing other actors to get this renewable energy, so it becomes a zero-sum game.”
<ul>
<li>Gauthier website / <a href="https://gauthierroussilhe.com">https://gauthierroussilhe.com</a></li>
<li>Gerry McGovern Twitter / <a href="https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern">https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern</a></li>
<li>World Wide Waste Book / <a href="https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/">https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/</a></li>
<li>Read transcript / <a href="https://www.thisishcd.com">https://www.thisishcd.com</a></li>
</ul>

Gauthier Roussilhe 'The hidden costs of data centers'

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Hello and welcome to Bringing Design Closer. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems.

This is HCD is almost 5-years old. We’ve been creating content regularly for that period of time, and if you want to help us out - please leave a review for us wherever you are listening. Those lovely algorithms love reviews, as it helps us grow our community - every little helps. Even if you don’t review, you can go one better by telling people you work with about the podcast. 

In this episode I speak with Michael Galinsky, a movie director, documentary maker and musician based in North Carolina in the states. For anyone that follows me on Twitter, they might have seen a thread a number of weeks ago where I spoke about back pain. Late last year, I woke with pain in my left hand side of my back, and contributed it to being a Dad, lifting little people, being out of shape, sitting down for larger periods of time etc. I went to my physio and had several sessions before Christmas and to little or no state change. Christmas was sore. I was more grumpy than usual and entered January and had a private MRI scan. That in itself was an interesting experience, and one for another episode, but my GP called me and said “one of your discs is protruding” and possibly on a nerve. I was shocked. I’d heard about herniated discs but now I had one! I actually got stiffer after for a few weeks.

Was this what my life was going to be like? Is this what middle age feels like? Sheesh - if it is, then this isn’t much fun.

Then I Tweeted.

What came back was a lot of support and advice. Emma Blomkamp, read something in a newsletter by Kai Brach several months prior and tagged Kai, and Kai mentioned a doctor called Dr John Sarno in the States. He encouraged me to Google and watch some stuff. Sarno’s work states that many people have herniated discs but what is the cause for lots of back pain is stress and hidden life traumas. I was instantly skeptical. But I spent 2 hours that night watching lectures of Sarno’s in NYU on YouTube. I was shocked. Last year was brutal. Running a business and balancing everything has been hard on me and hard on my own mental health. Maybe, just maybe there was something in this.

Then Michael tweeted to me. He’s created an awesome documentary called All the Rage several years ago and I bought it on iTunes and watched it. It explores the relationship between the mind and the body. Sarno encourages people to try exercise and ‘watch’ for the stressors. I did exactly this. I cut the grass. I went for a short walk with the kids. I gave them a piggy back and to my surprise, nothing. 

Was this in my head?

In this episode, I speak with Michael about working directly with Dr Sarno in the creation of the documentary and explore deeper about the background to Michaels own journey - something that under pinned the narrative of the documentary.

This is a brilliant episode and one for all - even if you don’t suffer back pain. You will find this fascinating.

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Hello and welcome to Bringing Design Closer. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems.
This is HCD is almost 5-years old. We’ve been creating content regularly for that period of time, and if you want to help us out - please leave a review for us wherever you are listening. Those lovely algorithms love reviews, as it helps us grow our community - every little helps. Even if you don’t review, you can go one better by telling people you work with about the podcast. 
In this episode I speak with Michael Galinsky, a movie director, documentary maker and musician based in North Carolina in the states. For anyone that follows me on Twitter, they might have seen a thread a number of weeks ago where I spoke about back pain. Late last year, I woke with pain in my left hand side of my back, and contributed it to being a Dad, lifting little people, being out of shape, sitting down for larger periods of time etc. I went to my physio and had several sessions before Christmas and to little or no state change. Christmas was sore. I was more grumpy than usual and entered January and had a private MRI scan. That in itself was an interesting experience, and one for another episode, but my GP called me and said “one of your discs is protruding” and possibly on a nerve. I was shocked. I’d heard about herniated discs but now I had one! I actually got stiffer after for a few weeks.
Was this what my life was going to be like? Is this what middle age feels like? Sheesh - if it is, then this isn’t much fun.
Then I Tweeted.
What came back was a lot of support and advice. Emma Blomkamp, read something in a newsletter by Kai Brach several months prior and tagged Kai, and Kai mentioned a doctor called Dr John Sarno in the States. He encouraged me to Google and watch some stuff. Sarno’s work states that many people have herniated discs but what is the cause for lots of back pain is stress and hidden life traumas. I was instantly skeptical. But I spent 2 hours that night watching lectures of Sarno’s in NYU on YouTube. I was shocked. Last year was brutal. Running a business and balancing everything has been hard on me and hard on my own mental health. Maybe, just maybe there was something in this.
Then Michael tweeted to me. He’s created an awesome documentary called All the Rage several years ago and I bought it on iTunes and watched it. It explores the relationship between the mind and the body. Sarno encourages people to try exercise and ‘watch’ for the stressors. I did exactly this. I cut the grass. I went for a short walk with the kids. I gave them a piggy back and to my surprise, nothing. 
Was this in my head?
In this episode, I speak with Michael about working directly with Dr Sarno in the creation of the documentary and explore deeper about the background to Michaels own journey - something that under pinned the narrative of the documentary.
This is a brilliant episode and one for all - even if you don’t suffer back pain. You will find this fascinating.
Let’s go...
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Michael Galinsky 'All the Rage'

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Gerry McGovern 'Earth Experience Design'

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