Design for Resilience is not a podcast just for professional designers. This a podcast for human beings, who may have forgotten that they are creative. We build our personal resilience by first remembering that we are all designers. We make language, sing songs, invent alphabets, share ideas, create images, build cities, and organize social systems. When we think of a murmuration of starlings, we are amazed at the way birds will fly together as a group, swirling around in the air as if they were one organism.

What does a murmuration of human beings look like? When we look around at the modern world, we can witness the way humans work together to build architecture that draws from various traditions and styles. Ideas, tools, and systems spread around the world. We do this with language, education, commerce, and politics. We can do this with technologies, such as the internal combustion engine. We are social creatures, and we have amplified our ability to travel and gather together with trains, planes, and automobiles.

But, now we have seen what can go wrong when we design without thinking about the possible consequences of our actions. If technology scales, accelerates, and amplifies our abilities and capacities as human beings, we need to think carefully about who we want to be. We are discovering that we can project our intentions into the world and build our own reality.

Design for resilience begins with an inward journey into who we are as human beings and thinking carefully about the future that we build for the generations to come.

Join us as we explore how we imagine, design, and build the future together.

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Jesse Cardinal Keepers of the Water November 28 2025

Tishna Marlowe, a Dene couture designer from Lutselk'e, NWT, began her professional fashion journey in 2013, having previously sewn moccasins and bags. Her work reflects a blend of traditional and contemporary styles, rooted in her cultural heritage.

Tishna Marlowe December 14, 2025

Suzan Marie is a Denesuline/Cree woman born and raised in the Northwest Territories.  As a residential school survivor, Suzan has experienced first hand the loss of culture and language that deeply impacted her life. In response she is reclaiming her culture through being from a long line of traditional artisans. 

Suzan Marie  November 19, 2025

Vashti Etzel December 2025

Cassandra Blondin Burt hosts a discussion with Dëneze Nakehk'o about the recent revelations concerning Thomas King's identity. 

Dëneze Nakehk'o on Thomas King December 2025

École St. Patrick High School Interact Club's Operation Christmas 2025, forming a human chain in -30C across Franklin Avenue on December 18th to the city’s main food bank at the Salvation Army. 

Operation Christmas 2025

A century-old Qayaq was repatriated in early December to the Inuvialuit from the Vatican’s vast archives. In total, 62 sacred and cultural objects from Inuit, First Nations and Métis communities that have been held in vaults thousands of kilometres away in the Vatican Museums were returned. In this image, ITK President Natan Obed addresses media after the items are unveiled, providing Inuit across Canada, and many others, the opportunity to see these cultural treasures for the first time. (Photo: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami/Facebook)

Vatican returns artifacts November 25

Frank Hope, of Shakes the Dust Hope Consulting, an Indigenous wellness company, speaks with Cassandra Blondin Burt of CKLB Radio

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Members of the Legislative Assembly Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart are inviting residents of 
Yellowknife and the surrounding area to attend a town hall style public meeting on crime prevention and public safety, to be held at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at the Northern United Place auditorium

Crime and Safety Town Hall February 2026

We mourn the passing of a remarkable leader and a true pioneer of Indigenous rights in Canada, Frank T’seleie Sr.

Frank T'seleie with Cassandra Blondin Burt

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