Sadie Morgan is the co-founding director of multi award-winning international architecture and design practice dRMM. She was appointed OBE in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours List and is a Professor at the University of Westminster. She is the youngest ever President of the Architectural Association, is the Design chair for HS2 and is a Commissioner for the UK Government’s National Infrastructure Commission. She is the founder of the Quality of Life Foundation which aims to put well-being at the heart of all new place-making and at the forefront of the housebuilding agenda. In this conversation Carlo and Sadie discuss her wide-ranging work, her open-mindedness borne of an upbringing in a communal environment, and her tireless support for the recognition of women in all aspects of society. They also discuss her decision to hitch-hike back from Spain in 2010 when Eyjafjallajökull erupted in Iceland, and why she gave the dRMM Stirling Prize winning acceptance speech in 2017, from hastings, in fangs.

Episode 10: Making Space with Sadie Morgan

Rob Poynton is a creative thinker and author whose life and work straddle numerous different fields. He teaches strategic leadership at the University of Oxford, and&nbsp;acts as a facilitator, consultant and coach to a host of companies and clients. His work is at the intersection of leadership, creativity, innovation and branding. He draws on multiple influences including improvisational theatre, play and the science of complexity.&nbsp;He lives between a remote off-grid home he built himself in the mountains of central Spain, and Oxford, England. In this conversation Carlo and Rob cover all sorts of ground including how Rob was drawn into the world of improv., life at the edges and why intersections are important. They discuss creativity, the advantage of simple rules, and where psychology and philosophy overlap. Rob is an erudite, deep thinker with a pin sharp intellect and a wide sweep of knowledge across multiple fields.

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Making Space is about the relationships we have with spaces, both physical and intangible. In this podcast, Carlo Navato makes space with a wide range of guests. These are free-form conversations about design, construction and creative living. Imaginative spaces help us flourish. They allow room for new possibilities and ideas to emerge. It’s about open spaces and open minds. Carlo is a passionately curious property developer, photographer, and a founding partner of the Do Lectures.

Making Space Podcast