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About Place
Hosted by Ryan Anderson, VP of Global Research and Planning at MillerKnoll, About Place explores the evolving role of place in our lives, at work and beyond. Each episode features conversations with thought-leaders, designers, researchers, and more, all of whom bring expertise and understanding abou...
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S5 E2: AI and relationship-based work, featuring John Maeda
To engineer, designer, and executive John Maeda, the future of AI looks optimistic. From improving design workflows to elevating memory augmentation,...

S5 E1: The purpose of place making, featuring Cheryl Durst
As more business leaders recognize design as a core business strategy, the designers they work with have become strategic collaborators and deep exper...

S4 BONUS 5: Crafting comfort
The workplace is more than a destination for work to get done. It’s an experience that should evoke the natural comfort that enables people to work th...

S4 BONUS 4: New design differentiators, featuring Chris Leong
At MillerKnoll, VP of Interiors Chris Leong designs spaces that put our research and insights on the workplace into practice. Listen in as he joins us...

S4 BONUS 3: Exceptional ergonomics, featuring Steven Souter
For more than three decades, Colebrook Bosson Saunders has been creating award-winning ergonomic tools that seamlessly connect people and technology a...

S4 BONUS 2: What's working for the workplace
At Design Days, we tapped guests with unique perspectives on the workplace to hear what’s exciting them about the future of office design. Listen in a...

S4 BONUS 1: Insights from the Archives, featuring Amy Auscherman
We kick things off with archivist Amy Auscherman in a conversation about the evolution of modernism and the ways it has shaped how we live and work. H...

Preview: Fresh insights about place
What better way to expand our insights from Season 4 than to share bonus episodes, including several conversations from the new MillerKnoll workplace...

S4, E11: A future for relationship-based planning
Sociologists sounded the alarm on technology’s more negative effects on people and places many decades ago. In season 4’s final episode, we revisit th...

S4, E10: Safe to fail
Innovation at work happens when we feel safe to fail, but how can we feel safer with our teammates in an era of distributed work? In this episode, soc...

S4, E9: From occupancy to outcomes
This season, we've tapped into the ways organizations are innovating to support new ways of working and people coming back to the office. For this epi...

S4, E8: Working toward enticing
Enticing Office, a workplace study authored by environmental psychologist Nigel Oseland in collaboration with MillerKnoll, revealed key factors that a...

S4, E7: The impact of aesthetics
As a field that studies the effects of aesthetics on how people think and feel, neuroaesthetics can be a valuable tool for designing workplaces that m...

S4, E6: Learning from innovations in healthcare
The demands of design for healthcare environments can teach us multitudes about creating healthier, more efficient workplaces. For this episode, we’re...

S4, E5: No final design
CBRE’s Workplace360 concept produces vibrant offices for the commercial real estate firm’s global workforce. Listen in as Peter Van Emburgh, Senior VP...

S4, E4: Aspiration meets reality
A new mixed-use retail and office space in Bentonville, Arkansas is redefining work and play in the mountain biking capital of the world. Apart from a...

S4, E3: Always innovating
Workplace strategy experts Domino Risch and Kirsten Brown share how companies in Australia are layering workplace hospitality, new technologies, and a...

S4, E2: Planning for excellence
Designing the perfect operational model gets easier when organizations prioritize their stakeholders in the process. In this episode, Assal Yavari, VP...

S4, E1: Powered by play
What does workplace planning look like at a global company in the business of play? Timothy Ahrensbach is LEGO Group’s Global Director of Workplace In...

Season 4 Preview: Let's talk about place
In this season of MillerKnoll’s podcast, we’re deepening our focus on the impact of the workplace on organizational outcomes—and our lives. What new i...

S3, E11: A last look forward
Two experts from MillerKnoll’s Global Research and Insights team recap last episode’s conversation on the Harkin Institute’s inclusive design, before...

S3, E10: Designing for progress
The road to inclusivity stops for many buildings at ADA compliance, but two architects for The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engageme...

S3, E9: Advocating for inclusion
Thirty years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), there’s one research institute still pushing for more inclusive spaces fo...

S3, E8: Evolving the workplace
What does it take to create workspaces people actually want to be in? Using smart technology as a sandbox, our guests explore how workplaces can forec...

S3, E7: Back to basics
Office density before the pandemic didn’t provide an ideal workplace experience for anyone. That’s just one of the takeaways from our chat with two ex...

S3, E6: Reimagining cities
For this episode, we welcome two guests from the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS). Carsten Beck is Director of Research and Lovisa Volma...

S3, E5: Leading toward belonging
Like most weeks this season, we welcome two guests to this episode. However, since both have a knack for looking at issues from multiple angles, it fe...

S3, E4: Redesigning work
Our guests for this episode come bearing research from their respective organizations to spark business leaders to think differently about the physica...

S3, E3: Still a work in progress
When the insights come at you as fast as they do in this podcast, sometimes you need a chance to reflect and consider how they apply to your world. So...

S3, E2: Redefining wellbeing
This week’s guests explore workplace wellbeing in both theory and practice. Gethin Nadin is a psychologist and Chief Innovation Officer at Benefex, a...

S3, E1: Facilitating connection
To kick off Season 3, host Ryan Anderson welcomes Matthew Boyle, Senior Work Shift Reporter at Bloomberg News, and Annie Dean, VP of Team Anywhere at...

Season 3 Preview
Welcome to Season 3! To kick off this season, your host—and our VP of Global Research and Insights—Ryan Anderson offers his thoughts on the state of t...

Season 2 Wrap-Up
We’ve come to the end of another season, but there’s still time to look back in our season wrap-up. Host Ryan Anderson puts a bow on Season 2 by shari...

S2, E10: The metaverse demystified
As our Digital Marketing Strategy Lead at MillerKnoll, Chris Coleman has been helping Ryan Anderson answer questions from customers wondering whether...

S2, E9: Workplace strategy for employee experience
This week, we welcome Corinne Murray, founder of Agate Studio. As a leading workplace strategist, Corinne helps organizations think differently about...

S2, E8: How human experience can shape real estate
Disruption has been the theme of Ronen Journo’s 28-year career, so his perspective on this period of rampant experimentation in corporate real estate...

S2, E7: Moving beyond accommodation
Inclusive design is a topic not nearly enough people are talking about. This week’s guests are working to fix that. Jolene De Jong is an Applied Insig...

S2, E6: The business case for flexible working
Host Ryan Anderson could not wait to share this episode with you. Our guest, Cali Williams Yost, has spent her career helping organizations reimagine...

S2, E5: Expanding the concept of workplace
On this week’s episode, we chat with Craig Robinson, Chief Growth Officer at flexible workplace provider, Industrious. With more than 20 years of expe...

S2, E4: Fixing what’s broken
Our guest this week is on a mission to convince organizations everywhere to take the double disruption of COVID plus inflation as an opportunity to ch...