Shared Space

Apr 08 2025 32 ep. 30 mins 13

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Host Erin Peavey explores how our lives shape and are shaped by design. Through interviews, science, and storytelling she reveals the hidden power of architecture and design to make us healthier, happier and more connected.

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Neuroscience of Beauty: How Beautiful Spaces Shape Our Minds with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee

Apr 08 2025 50 mins

Dr. Anjan Chatterjee is a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist who has dedicated over three decades to exploring the connection between the human brain and the world around us. A professor of neurology, psychology, and architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Chatterjee is also the founding director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, where he leads groundbreakin

Spaces for Healthy Connection: Strengthening Neighborhoods with Krista Nightengale

Mar 25 2025 44 mins

Krista Nightengale is a visionary leader and the Executive Director of Better Block, a groundbreaking organization dedicated to transforming neighborhoods through community-driven design. With a fierce belief in the power of public spaces to connect people, Krista champions an approach to urban design that emphasizes love over fear, encouraging communities to build environments tha

Third Places, True Connections: Redesigning Our Social Fabric with Richard Kyte

Mar 11 2025 37 mins

Dr. Richard Kyte is a thought leader, educator, and author whose work is centered around the transformative power of human connection, community-building, and the spaces where these vital interactions unfold. As the director of the DB Reinhardt Institute for Ethics and Leadership and an endowed professor of ethics at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Richard brings a deep

Socially Healthy Places: Co-Creating Thriving Communities with Risa Wilkerson

Feb 25 2025 36 mins

Risa Wilkerson is a pioneer in the field of community health and design, dedicated to creating spaces that foster connection, inclusivity, and well-being. As the Executive Director of Healthy Places by Design, Risa has spent nearly two decades working at the intersection of public health, community development, and equity. Her work empowers organizations across the U.S. to design e

Sustainable Connections: Socially Vibrant Cities and Suburbs with Nico Larco

Feb 11 2025 44 mins

Nico Larco is a visionary leader and changemaker at the intersection of architecture, urban design, and sustainable development. As a Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Director of the Urbanism Next Center, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative, Nico has dedicated his career to designing environments that inspire human connection, i

The Art of Inclusion: Rethinking Design for a Connected World With Sara Hendren

Jan 28 2025 53 mins

Sara Hendren is a visionary design researcher, author, artist, and educator whose work transforms the way we see disability, design, and the built world. As a professor at Northeastern University, Sara teaches Design for Disability, guiding students to embrace creativity, empathy, and inclusivity in their work. Her groundbreaking book, What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built

Season 3 Teaser

Jan 27 2025 1 mins

Shared Space uses science and storytelling to reveal the power of architecture and design to make us healthier, happier, and more connected.In Season 3 we talk with architects, design educators, urban planners, neuroscientists, and community builders. Join us! You can support this work through subscribing, rating, and reviewing - it helps more than you know!

Best of Season 2: Design for Health, Happiness and Connection

Oct 06 2021 40 mins

In this special Best Of Shared Space Season 2! We talk with architects, psychologist, designers, activists, writers, urban planners – a host of amazing community changemakers on season two and we weave all of those together for you all. We start with a basic understanding of what is loneliness, social health, and social capital and why is it so important? Then we dive into office

Building Connection, One Alley at a Time

Jun 29 2021 25 mins

In this episode, I speak with community leaders, and all-around good neighbors, Judy Sullivan and Meg Moschetto of the Cochrane Heights Neighborhood Association in Dallas, Texas. They recently transformed an ‘eyesore’ alley into a place of connection, expanding their neighborhood, increasing safety, and paving the way for a butterfly garden, kids playing and many more dog walks

Fighting Workplace Loneliness By Design - with Nigel Oseland

May 25 2021 40 mins

How do our workplaces and practices impact loneliness? How can you design for connection of all kinds? In 2019, 61% of U.S. working adults reported experiencing loneliness, which is tied to decreased productivity, work satisfaction and turn over. Yet, we rarely ask the question of how to design for connection in our workplaces as a priority. In this episode, I speak with Dr. N