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SURROUND Presents

SURROUND Network

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Frequency: 1 episode/52d. Total Eps: 12

SURROUND Presents explores the untold stories and unique innovations within the design world, offering a fresh perspective for designers, architects, and built environment specialists. Each episode presents diverse themes, giving a platform to showcase best-of and new voices from the SURROUND family, plus opportunities for custom content from industry partners.

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http://www.fxcollaborative.com/
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Unika Vaev: What Endures in Design

Friday, June 12, 2026 • Duration 43:06

What makes good design endure in an era of constant change? Recorded live at NeoCon 2026, AJ Paron sits down with Wick Wolfe, president of Unica Vaev, to discuss the principles that outlast trends. From the evolution of NeoCon to the growing importance of acoustics and sustainability, Wolfe shares how thoughtful, user-centered design remains relevant in a rapidly changing industry.

This episode is presented by Unika Vaev and was recorded in the NeoCon Podcast Lounge Powered by SURROUND. Thank you to our Lounge sponsor, Unika Vaev, and partners: B+N, DARRAN, Framery, Momentum, and UpSpring.

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Deep Green — Reseat’s Office Furniture Rescue

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 • Duration 22:51

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Listeners of Deep Green know that we have a big problem with office furniture. In 2018, an estimated 12 million tons of furniture went to landfills in the United States alone, and eight million tons of that was office furniture.

Not cheap e-commerce or flat-pack couches or low-quality furniture. These were desks, workstations, and ergonomic chairs that probably had many more years of life left in them. Now, if we could divert those pieces to new projects and give them a second life, it could mean some money for the original owners, savings for the new owners, and a whole lot of good for the planet.

That's where Reseat comes in. In this episode, created in partnership with Reseat, host Avinash Rajagopal sits down with the company’s founder and CEO, Brandi Susewitz. Building on Susewitz’s deep knowledge of the furniture industry, Reseat is making an increasingly big impact through furniture reuse every year. Listen to learn about what's new with the Reseat platform, how the challenges and opportunities around circularity and design have changed, and why furniture is still a key lever in our transition to a circular built environment.

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Reseat’s Mission

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Design Nerds Anonymous — Why Fixing Work Fixes Everything

Monday, April 27, 2026 • Duration 40:23

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In the Season 10 premiere of Design Nerds Anonymous, host Amanda Schneider kicks off a season built around the ideas inside her upcoming book, Work for What’s Next, with a guest who lives at the intersection of innovation, risk, and human potential: Deb Golden, Deloitte’s US Chief Innovation Officer. Together, they unpack a core tension shaping work right now: companies keep trying to fix a software problem (culture, trust, systems) with hardware (office mandates). The result is a conversation about the trust gap, unlearning outdated rules, and what it takes to design workplaces that become magnets—not mandates.

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Barriers to Entry — Matthias Hollwich, Founder, HWKN Architecture

Monday, March 30, 2026 • Duration 42:55

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Architecture as a Startup

Season 4 opens with a milestone moment: Andrew Lane’s first solo episode as host. With a little encouragement from Producer Rob, Andrew welcomes back friend of the show Matthias Hollwich, founder of HWKN Architecture, for a conversation about why the architecture industry may need to reinvent itself entirely.

Matthias argues that today every architecture firm needs to think like a startup. With AI transforming design tools and workflows at breakneck speed, his studio has embraced rapid experimentation—running internal AI sprints, rewriting their design process every few months, and using generative tools to explore entirely new forms of architecture.

Andrew and Matthias discuss how AI is reshaping everything from design research to client collaboration, how new technologies can unlock more emotional and human-centered architecture, and why this moment may allow architects to reclaim influence over the future of the built environment.

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HWKN Architecture

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Live from NeoCon: Helene Oberman with Neel Bradham of Parador

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 • Duration 31:42

Recorded live at NeoCon 2025, Helene Oberman, Managing Director of Interior Design Magazine, sits down with Neel Bradham, CEO and Managing Director of Parador. In this episode, they discuss Parador's debut in the U.S. market, their rich legacy of nearly 50 years in the European design industry, and how Parador integrates innovation and sustainability in their products. Neel also shares insights into how Parador navigates global expansion and the importance of partnerships in achieving their vision.

This episode was produced in partnership with Parador and 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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Live from NeoCon: Cindy Allen with Ryan Smith of 3form + LightArt in DesignScene

Thursday, June 12, 2025 • Duration 22:09

This special episode of SURROUND Presents was recorded live during NeoCon 2025, in the DesignScene lounge hosted by SANDOW DESIGN GROUP. Surrounded by more than 300 full-sized lamps and countless miniature models, Interior Design Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen sat down in the experiential space with Ryan Smith, Chief Creative Officer of 3form companies and founder of LightArt. The duo shared behind-the-scenes details on how the installation came to life, the bumps and brilliance along the way, and why this partnership means so much to everyone involved.

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architecture 5 10 20 — Sustainability Milestones LIVE: Circularity in the Built Environment

Friday, May 9, 2025 • Duration 39:01

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Welcome back to architecture 5 10 20! I’m your host, Guy Geier, Managing Partner of FXCollaborative Architects in New York. My guests for this podcast are pioneers and visionaries shaping the future of the built environment across various disciplines. Join me in exploring their remarkable journeys, discovering how they reach their current heights, and envisioning what lies ahead in the next 5, 10, and 20 years.

Join me for this special episode as I have a great conversation with Avi Rajagopal, editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine and host of the Deep Green podcast, to discuss connections between sustainability and design. Recorded at FX Collaborative’s Brooklyn office during Green April, our conversation touches upon how sustainability has evolved in the built environment and how media plays an important part in pushing the conversation forward.

Avi, whose career has been shaped by his commitment to sustainable design, shares his journey from product design to leading sustainability projects at Metropolis, and we talk about some of the challenges facing the architecture and design industries such as the carbon emissions tied to interior design and the importance of thinking about materials as long-term investments. Avi provides some insights into how we can shift our mindset to reduce waste and adopt a more circular approach to design.

Avi also goes into how design practices differ across sectors, from corporate offices to healthcare facilities, and how we can rethink how buildings change over time. We discuss the role of reuse in sustainability and the shifts that we are going to need to actually elevate this practice. Focusing on practical and actionable steps, we consider how designers can model circularity, from reusing materials to rethinking aesthetic choices. Avi even answers a few questions from a few of my FXCollaborative colleagues here in the studio with me!

Clever — Designing Belonging: Alma Jimenez Lopez on Art, Heritage, and Home

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 • Duration 01:01:41

Alma Jimenez Lopez is a creative force — a designer, artist, and curator who builds bridges between cultures and communities. In this episode, she shares how growing up as a first-generation Mexican American shaped her superpower: empathy. From honing her skills as an interior designer and building bridges across sectors of the design industry, to curation and community-building with the co-founding Of Threads, which celebrates the richness of Mexican American stories through art, design, and fashion, Alma’s journey is one of vision, healing, and unstoppable drive. This conversation is bold, heartfelt, and full of light.

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Design Tangents — Teo Yang: Interior designer, aesthete, collector and entrepreneur

Thursday, February 13, 2025 • Duration 54:28

Some are born with good taste, and Teo Yang is one of them. Among South Korea’s most interesting designers and collectors, he consistently studies the country’s past to find inspiration and connection to its present and future. His interior design practice creates private, public and corporate spaces, often filled with an eclectic mix that includes furniture and furnishings that he’s designed. Evan and Josh spent time with Teo in Seoul and more recently caught up with him while he was passing through NYC on his first visit in many years. They spoke with the gifted entrepreneur about how he weaves his vision across multiple businesses, including skin care, fragrances and science fiction.

TeoYangStudio.com

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CoolHunting.com/TeoYang

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Sense of Space — Do buildings have souls?

Thursday, January 23, 2025 • Duration 49:45

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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Want to learn more about the things we’ve mentioned in this episode? Please find links to additional content below.

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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