Good, Thoughtful Hosts, A Design Podcast

About Good, Thoughtful Hosts, A Design Podcast

On Good, Thoughtful Hosts, Sarah Steimer explores the built environment on the notion that a designer’s role is to anticipate the needs of their guests. Join us to dig into the ways in which the built world can influence people’s feelings and experiences — and how. Beyond the traditional requisites of form and function, hear firsthand from architects, engineers, planners, and more on how they imbue designs with health, well-being, user experience, and other modern priorities. Interviews and discussions will include project case studies, profiles of designers, trend reports, and much, much more.

Publisher

Cushing Terrell

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 May 2022

Latest episode

16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Managing Change: Where Historic Preservation May Be Headed

   We chat with Murray Miller, Historic Preservation Manager at Cushing Terrell, about how efforts to make historic preservation more relevant have also made the practice more inclusive, accountable, and transparent — and how proposed changes could significantly damage progress made since 1966.

2. 

   15 Jul 2026

   Designing for the Unknowable Future

   We’re chatting with Interior Design Director Sandi Rudy, who recently became a Certified Design Futurist. She'll describe how to identify signals that might inform design and create tangible, data-driven concepts. Sandi also discusses how she’s used this framework to help tackle challenging questions, such as the future of offices.

3. 

   9 Jun 2026

   AI and Physical Retail: What's Next

   Our conversation with Associate Principal Sheri Blattel focuses on how technological advances — in particular, AI — affect physical retail spaces. We'll also explore how young shoppers’ shifting habits, like returning to the mall and requiring an omnichannel experience, are changing the retail landscape.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings