NCOMMON

About NCOMMON

Season Two of NCOMMON invites listeners into the heart of Alison Rand’s new book, Sentido: Finding Sense and Purpose in Design Leadership. “Sentido” means sense—to feel, to understand, to make meaning. This season, she’ll be in conversation with guests whose stories echo the themes of Sentido, asking the questions that often go unspoken about leadership, belonging, and change. Together they will reflect, challenge, and imagine new ways forward—finding clarity in complexity and purpose in practice.

Publisher

Alison Rand

Category

arts · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Mar 2020

Latest episode

3 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Aug 2026

   Season 2 / Ep. 07: El Yunque

   In this episode, rooted in Sentido's El Yunque chapter, Alison is joined by futurist and speculative designer Monika Bielskyte to talk about Protopia Futures — a framework built on the premise that the futures worth inhabiting are neither utopian nor extractive, and that most of the people designing ours are still working from a model of the human that science abandoned a long time ago.

2. 

   22 Jun 2026

   Season 2 / Ep. 07: Hiding in Plain Sight

   In this episode, Alison is joined by director and cinematographer Soraya Sélène to talk about Who in the Hell Is Regina Jones? — a documentary about the founder of Soul newspaper, a nationally distributed publication that predated Rolling Stone, launched out of a dining room in 1966 by a woman with five children whose name most people still don't know.

3. 

   8 Jan 2026

   Season 2 / Ep. 06: Radical

   In this episode, Alison is joined by Aimee Meredith Cox and Soeuraya Wilson, teachers at The Class whose work is grounded in embodiment, care, and long-standing practice in collective spaces. Their conversation explores what it means to be honest with one another in real time, and how trust is built through presence, attention, and the willingness to stay with what’s uncomfortable.

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