NeoConversations takes you inside the heart of NeoCon, the premier platform for the commercial interior design industry.
Each month, we extend the conversations beyond the show floor, bringing you the ideas, perspectives, and voices shaping our industry year-round.
From emerging insights to established leaders, this is where the NeoCon community continues to learn, connect, and evolve.
NeoConversations is proudly sponsored by IDCEC, supporting continuing education for the design community.
As sustainability becomes a defining challenge for the architecture and design industry, designers are being asked to think beyond aesthetics and performance to consider the lasting implications of every material, every specification, and every decision.Host Nubia Henderson is joined by Jonce Walker and Katia Lucuy of Beyond at HLW to explore embodied carbon, material transparency, circularity, and the growing responsibility designers have to shape healthier buildings and a healthier planet.Together, they challenge common misconceptions about sustainable design and explore why accountability, curiosity and informed decision making may be the most important design tool of all.Find out more: gobeyondwithus.com/projects/grant-thornton
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15 Jul 2026
Are We Designing Workplaces for Creativity or Just Attendance?
In this episode of NeoConversations, host Nubia Henderson sits down with polymath David Shing, known as Shingy, for a conversation on what it means to design for creativity in a culture shaped by constant consumption.Recorded during NeoCon, the conversation explores how workplaces, learning environments, and digital spaces can better support active creation, human connection, and more expansive ways of thinking. From tactile tools like doodling and LEGO’s to post-COVID workplace expectations, Shingy challenges us to rethink the environments we build and ask whether they truly help people create, collaborate, and bring their full selves to work.This episode was recorded in the NeoCon Podcast Lounge Powered by SURROUND. Thank you to our Lounge sponsor, Unika Vaev, and partners: B+N, DARRAN, Framery, Momentum, and UpSpring.
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15 Jun 2026
The Future Mundane: Nick Foster RDI on Process, AI and Designing What’s Next
On this episode of NeoConversations, host Nubia Henderson sits down with futures designer, author and Royal Designer of Industry Nick Foster RDI to explore how designers can navigate a world increasingly shaped by AI, automation and rapid technological change.Drawing from his book Could, Should, Might, Don’t: How We Think About the Future, Foster reflects on the cultural, ethical, and deeply human dimensions of design. From his work leading speculative projects at Google X to his belief in what he calls “the future mundane,” the conversation examines how design moves beyond artifacts and outputs to focus on process, responsibility, and the ways people experience technology in everyday life.Together, they discuss the evolving role of craft in the age of AI, the tension between what technology can do versus what it should do, and why the future must remain grounded in humanity, reflection, and care. The episode also explores mentorship, representation, and Foster’s perspective on using design to open pathways for the next generation of creative thinkers.
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