Appearances

Other Appearances (selected, 2020–2026)

  • unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc, Ep. 285 (2026) — Wide-ranging interview: the path into environmental psychology, non-conscious effects of built features, and everyday “blindsight.” [Listen]

  • AIANY Center for Architecture, New York (April 1, 2025) — “What Design Can Do for Human Health and Community Wellbeing”: screening of the film What Design Can Do followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A with Sarah Williams Goldhagen (moderator: Ian Wach); first event in a three-part AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee series. Recording available via the Center for Architecture. [Event page]

  • POLI.design / Politecnico di Milano, Bovisa Campus (February 21, 2025) — Viewing and conversation about What Design Can Do with Sarah Robinson and Davide Ruzzon, opening the Executive Course in Neuroscience and Design. [Details]

  • Intentional Spaces Summit, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins, Washington, DC (November 2023) — Speaker; the summit also hosted the premiere of What Design Can Do (written and produced with Sarah Robinson, directed by Mary McDonagh Murphy). [Summit]

  • Design Anthology, The Design Dialogues (December 15, 2022) — Conversation with editor-in-chief Suzy Annetta about the beginnings of her career and the built environment’s impact on mental and physical wellbeing. [Listen]

  • Conversation with Maria da Piedade Ferreira and design students (posted June 2021) — Recorded discussion with students of interior design, architecture, and urban planning. [Watch]

  • Georgia Tech School of Architecture (February 23, 2021) — Appearance alongside Sonit Bafna, associate professor and director, Georgia Tech SoA.

  • Venetian Letter (January 2021) — “There’s No Such Thing as a Neutral Space” — in-depth written Q&A. [Read]

  • At a Distance podcast (May 2020) — On the pandemic, localization of place, and the psychological effects of the built world. [Listen]

Other Appearances (selected, 2017–2019)

  • Conscious Cities Festival (2019) — Recorded talk. [Watch]

  • SESAH Conference keynote, Greensboro (2019) — “The Next Environmental Revolution,” Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. [Announcement]

  • Edge Effects podcast (October 2019) — “The (Built) Environmental Revolution” / “Good Design Is Not a Luxury.” [Listen]

  • EDR+ Podcast (September 2018) — “Psychoacoustics and Wellbeing.” [Listen]

  • Robert L. Plavnick Lecture, Campbell Hall (February 12, 2018) — “Welcome to Your World: The Mind, the Body and the Built Environment” (recorded). [Watch]

  • Talk Nation Radio (2017) — Interview with David Swanson. [Listen]

  • Something You Should Know podcast (2017) — 51-minute guest interview; episode descriptions suggest re-airs in October 2020 and November 2022.

  • High Line walking interview (spring 2017; re-aired September 2020) — Walking conversation along the High Line, revisited as a look-back episode (show name unconfirmed in available sources).

  • Your Creative Push #229 (June 2017) — “Strive Less and Teach More.” [Listen]

  • ChimeraObscura Ep. 213 (2017) — On Welcome to Your World and living in a better built environment. [Listen]

  • WritersVoice (April 2017) — Paired segment with Florence Williams (The Nature Fix). [Listen]

  • WGBH News (May 2017) — “How Design Affects Our Lives.” [Listen]