Hello and welcome to SUX - The Sustainable UX Podcast, the podcast for designers, UX people and digital product builders who want to make an impact for a sustainable future. We are Bavo and Thorsten and we are two of the founding members of “SUX - The Sustainable UX Network”, a non-profit initiative and community, that drives sustainable and responsible UX based on the UN SDGs in various ways.
With the SUX Podcast we invite you to meet wonderful people from around the world and to get inspired by their way of trying to save the world through and within UX, Design and Tech.
Host Thorsten Jonas interviews Maria Giudice about how design actively drives change and why leaders benefit from design skills, exploring narratives and positive storytelling.
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SUX EP 18 - "World Wide Waste" with Gerry McGovern
Host Thorsten interviews Gerry McGovern, author of World Wide Waste, about the environmental impact of digital waste and the need for sustainable tech practices
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SUX EP 17 - "We need to talk about water" with Laura Korčulanin
Welcome to this episode of the SUX Podcast. This time I had the honor to be joined by Laura Korculanin from Lisbon. Laura is a Design anthropologist, a systems thinker and a water advocate, running her own company called give a shit. We met for the first time I think 3 years ago and what really stuck to me was how Laura already back then had dedicated her design work to water, to nature and to regeneration.
And therefore I am so happy that she joined me for this episode to talk especially about water and the impact to it by the digital world we design or use (and yes AI plays a huge part in that).
We also speak about the importance of nature and why we need to recalibrate our societal value set. Laura for example made the great point, how insane it is that a forest is only of economical value when the trees are cut down to sell the wood. But we also touched the question of balancing online and offline time for ourselves and how that connects us to nature.
And we speak about why designers need to be system thinkers to design sustainability and for regeneration.
Laura is a real inspiration and we could have talked for 2 or 3 hours (no worries - the episode is only one hour long) and she as well creates “punch-line” quotes throughout the whole episode. Just to give you a teaser:
„The less time you are online, the more connected you are offline“
„How is it possible that the forest is worth money only once you cut down trees?“
Connect with our guest or us:
Laura’s Channels:
Lauras LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurakorculanin/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurakorculanin/)
Give a Shit: https://www.giveashitnow.org/ (https://www.giveashitnow.org/)
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Our Channels:
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Inside a recent episode
SUX EP 19 - "Changemakers" with Maria Giudice
Published 23 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yes. And what a coincidence, ha ha ha. And so do we, as part of all this, do we also need to re -democratize tech? I have no idea how to do that, but at the moment, right? We are all relying on these big platforms. Yeah. How do we get away from that? Well, people have left X Twitter, right? […]
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