Transforming What’s Possible in Our Lives Through Social Design with Cheryl Heller
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Cheryl Heller is a business strategist, designer and author of The Intergalactic Design Guide. She joins us in this episode for an inspiring, jam-packed discussion, focused on how we can transform the limits in our lives through social design and creativity. In light of achieving the impossible, Cheryl covers many inspiring and interesting topics such us how to define your sense of identity, how to apply the principles of communication design, why we should rely on experiments more than planning, and ultimately, how we can alter what we see as possible on our own lives.
Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA. To view and apply to the DSI program, simply visit https://dsi.sva.edu
Cheryl is the author of The Intergalactic Design Guide: Harnessing the Creative Potential of Social Design
To find out more about Cheryl and her work, visit www.linkedin.com/in/cherylheller
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| 0:00.0 | You know when we talk to people is what we care about to genuinely help them |
| 0:09.2 | understand where it is right so you, you know, working with other communities. What's owed |
| 0:16.4 | is complete transparency about why we're there, about what we're doing, about what it means, |
| 0:21.4 | and you know, much of the time that tends to be done in a sort of bureaucratic |
| 0:26.4 | thoughtless way when we often don't think about the reality of the listener, right? |
| 0:34.5 | What is their perspective and what is it |
| 0:38.0 | that we need to do as communicators to offer them or to invite them into the conversation as equal participants instead of telling |
| 0:48.6 | them what we think or assuming you know that they're understanding and so I teach a communication design class and |
| 0:57.6 | and the first thing I always say in classes is it doesn't matter what you mean to say right |
| 1:02.4 | intention counts for shit in communication It doesn't matter what you mean to say, right? |
| 1:02.6 | Intention counts for shit in communication. |
| 1:05.6 | It's what somebody gets from it. |
| 1:08.2 | Unless you're sitting in front of someone and you can, you know, |
| 1:12.2 | and you can go back, double back and try to explain right it just doesn't |
| 1:16.6 | matter what we mean to say what matters is the gap between what we put out and what someone understands and in the internet there's |
| 1:25.9 | absolutely no way to understand that. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window |
| 1:37.2 | into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who |
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