Sense of Space – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Is “vibe” something we can curate, or is it best when it occurs organically? Faraz and Ella unpack some SAT words to describe how our bodies respond to spaces and ways to design for all senses. By better understanding ourselves and our senses, can we learn how to integrate this approach into the creation of a “vibe”?

Notes / Links:

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• Faraz’s YouTube Rabbit Hole
• Book Recommendation: Temple Grandin | Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

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Meet your co-hosts and curious ambassadors. Faraz Shah and Ella Hazard share their backgrounds, experiences, and dreams for what Sense of Space might be. There is never a dull moment with them! Along the way, there’s always time and space for professional rants, current YouTube obsessions, and endearing digressions.

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• Faraz’s deets: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahf
• Ella’s deets: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-hazard/
• Faraz’s YouTube Rabbit Hole: Studio Tour with Goldie

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Introducing Sense of Space, a Turf podcast that dissects the built environment and all the stuff we interact with. Join us on a journey of curiosity through conversation with experts and friends.

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Carolyn Noble joins Faraz and Ella to discuss our relationship between the natural and built environment. From our biophilic journeys at home to the Savannah Theory and some made-up terminology, we dig deeper into the make-up of well-integrated design. How do we move past the “put a plant on it” phase of biophilia in architecture?

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• Faraz’s YouTube Rabbit Hole: Skateboarders on Route 66
• Carolyn’s deets: Carolyn Noble | Ames Design Collective
• Caroly’s Reference: Terrapin Bright Green
• Ted Talk: Matt Morely | Designing green healthy buildings like a good ancestor

Groups we’re engaged with for circularity:

Designs for Dignity

Rheaply

Zerolandfill — IIDA Georgia Chapter

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Faraz’s son departs home to begin an education in design, inspiring a reflective conversation on our own educational experiences and the values and priorities of the next generation of designers. The squad investigates the importance of third spaces and inclusivity in these spaces. Is it possible that design for belonging can make things better for all of us?

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• CDC Infographic: Disability Impacts All of Us Infographic | CDC
• TED Talk: Cory Paradis | Can Thoughtful Design Make Disability Disappear?
• Short Film: Guy Reid | Planetary
• Book Recommendation: Daniel Kahneman | Thinking, Fast and Slow
• TED Talk: Don Norman | Design for the Elderly

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Have you ever walked into a space and immediately sensed it had a rich history? Faraz and Ella explore the idea of iteration from a musical context and how this occurs in the built environment through thoughtful preservation and adaptive reuse. What makes up the soul of a building or place? Does it start with the architecture or with the people and activities that bring a space to life?

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• Faraz’s YouTube Rabbit Hole
• Who we spoke with: Preservation Chicago
• Book Recommendation: Stewart Brand | How Buildings Learn
• Book Recommendation: Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns | Buildings Must Die
• Podcast Recommendation: Alie Ward | Ologies: Domicology Episode
• Article: Wax Trax building gets preliminary landmark designation | Urbanize Chicago!

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Faraz and Ella explore what lies beyond the sense of sight in the built environment. Join us as we explore the relationship between our various senses and our surroundings and how it can be either integral to or dissonant with our experience of spaces.

Notes / Links:

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• Book Recommendation: Temple Grandin | Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
• AI Product (that we don’t know how to feel about):  Friend Reveal Trailer
• Musical Artist: Black Asteroid
• Activity: Ellen Reid | SOUNDWALK
• TED Talk: Daniel Kish | How I use sonar to navigate the world

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Live from NeoCon 2025, Faraz and Ella sit down with Elizabeth Von Lehe of CannonDesign and Carolyn Ames Noble of Turf Design to explore how innovation is reshaping architecture and interiors. Together, they unpack the evolving design landscape and share an insider’s view of NeoCon’s immersive experiences and electric atmosphere.

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This episode was recorded live in the NeoCon Podcast Lounge Powered by SURROUND, sponsored by Material Bank, and in partnership with HÅG, Stylex, KI Wall, and Turf.

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Can emotions inform the way we design? Ella and Faraz discuss big feelings and how the built environment influences them. What helps us process feelings and emotions in a space?

Sense of Space music provided by: Black Light Smoke (Instagram, Spotify)

References:

Company that offers alternate death care and funerary practices.

EndWell Conference

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Programming

Article about podcast studio interiors

Article about rage rooms

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Has design school changed? What currently inspires students? Ella is back in school and on a journey. Hoping to guide today’s students, she and Faraz unpack their past education while exploring how their studies translate to real-life practice.

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