The Fix: Setting Up Home
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In the first of a new series, twelve of the country's brightest young minds gather to solve difficult social problems. This week - how do we improve access to affordable housing? Using policy planning techniques used by governments around the world, three teams are given free reign to think the unthinkable. They then present their ideas to two judges, who'll interrogate them and pick the best. Presented by Matthew Taylor and facilitated by Cat Drew of Uscreates Team One: Oliver Sweet - runs an ethnographic research department at Ipsos MORI. Margot Lombaert - creative director of Margot Lombaert Studio, an independent graphic design practice. Ethan Howard - RSA award winner. Jack Minchella - research and design associate at the Innovation Unit and the founder of the urban research collective In-Between Economies based in Denmark. Team Two: Solveiga Pakštaitė - industrial designer specialising in user-centred design. Gemma Hitchens - Account Director at Signal Noise, which specialises in data visualisation and analysis. Jag Singh - tech entrepreneur and former political strategist. Hashi Mohamed - barrister at No5 Chambers. Team Three: Helen Steer - educator and maker who runs Do It Kits, a start-up that helps teachers use technology. Zahra Davidson - designer with a background spanning service design, social innovation and visual communication. Piero Zagami - information designer and consultant in graphic design and data visualization. Tobias Revell - artist and lecturer in Critical and Digital Design. Producer: Wesley Stephenson.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I commission podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | Thanks for downloading this program from the BBC. |
| 0:39.0 | I know you analysis listeners like taking on big important chunky issues so here's one |
| 0:44.4 | approach to solving them it's a new series called the fix and over the next four |
| 0:48.7 | weeks we're going to podcast it here I really hope you like it. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay, thank you all very much. |
| 1:08.0 | This is the fix. I'm Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA, and today we're trying to do something completely new on radio for. We've gathered together 12 of the country's brightest young minds, and we're going to give you just one day to develop solutions to a |
| 1:14.6 | complex policy problem. It sounds really ambitious but we're applying the same |
| 1:19.4 | techniques that are being used increasingly by governments all around the world to design policy. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello teams? |
| 1:27.0 | No. |
| 1:28.0 | Great. |
| 1:29.0 | Okay, let's find out who we have here today. |
| 1:32.0 | Let's start with table one. Tell us your name and what your |
| 1:35.8 | kind of specialism is. Hello my name is Mughalombart and I'm a graphic |
| 1:39.1 | designer. Hello I'm Ethan Howard and I'm a recent master's graduate in sustainable development from Uppsala University in Sweden. |
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