Can design help communities adapt to global crisis?

We believe that design is the catalyst for positive change.

Design is the difference maker. It's Thursday February 15th, the of Science Friday.

I'm SciFi producer Charles Burgquist.

Over the past few years we've seen cities around the world change dramatically

as a result of the COVID pandemic, with shifts in office

use, commuting patterns, and where people choose to live, work, and play.

But there are other changes on the horizon as well.

Things like adapting communities to changing climate, sea level rise,

and the move to alter our infrastructure

away from dependence on fossil fuels.

Cyfri's John Dan Koski spoke with two people who've been thinking a lot about

that sort of change and how architecture and design can help communities adapt.

Here's John.

Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins are co-seios of Gensler. It's a global architecture and design firm, and they're authors of a new book.

It's called Design for a Ratically Changing World.

Welcome to Science Friday. Thanks so much for joining me. It's great to be here.

Thanks so much, John. Okay, so Diane, Andy, you're both design people.

What made you write this book?

Wow, big question.

As you were saying earlier, Andy and I,

we lead a large and very influential architecture firm and design firm that works on you know

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