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On the show today we are joined by one of the world’s leading designers: Thomas Heatherwick. Thomas has created many of the world’s most striking new public spaces and buildings.

Heatherwick Studio is behind culture-defining projects like the Vessel in New York’s Hudson Yard, and London’s Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross, where we are recording this podcast.

They’ve also designed iconic cultural moments like the London 2012 Olympics cauldron, and cultural landmarks like the reimagined double decker bus in London. From Cape Town’s coolest building to Google’s new office, Thomas is building daring urban landscapes that will outlive all of us.

Our cities and our buildings have such a profound impact on our lives, but often we don’t have time to really think about why that is, and how things could be so much better.

Today Thomas joins the podcast to talk about why we need to humanise cities - he’s even written a book called Humanise which talks about exactly this. We also cover the surprising health and climate consequences of not taking this ambition seriously.

We’ll talk about why design matters for you, how to put the soul back into buildings and why we’ve got cities so badly wrong for a century.

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Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING.

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