About Place

With IIDA’s new future forecasting team, Mark Bryan is working on a rewarding project: detecting trends, challenges, and opportunities in the factors shaping interior design and the built environment. He joins us to discuss the superpower of continuity management, holding AI accountable, the groundbreaking materials that are intelligently shaping spaces, and much more. Recommended reading and resources: Tunable stiffness/metamaterials (link) Materials that signal damage (link) AI and the emerging two-speed workforce (link) Data centers heating cities (link) The expanding role of the home (link) IIDA Futures Readiness Index (link) IIDA Certified Design Futurist (link) Host: news.millerknoll.com/Ryan-Anderson linkedin.com/in/ryaningr/ For more About Place, visit: millerknoll.com/ideas-in-action/about-place-podcast Connect with MillerKnoll: Instagram: instagram.com/millerknoll/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/millerknoll/

At Cloudflare, Caroline Quick, VP and Head of Global Real Estate and Workplace, is building a workplace culture that embraces change, learns from the unexpected, and strengthens connection wherever work happens. Listen in as she discusses lessons from AI-native talent, how belonging is cultivated across teams, continents, and age groups, and why culture grows strongest when people are empowered to shape the spaces where they work. Host:news.millerknoll.com/Ryan-Andersonlinkedin.com/in/ryaningr/ For more About Place, visit:millerknoll.com/ideas-in-action/about-place-podcast Connect with MillerKnoll:Instagram: Instagram.com/millerknoll/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/millerknoll/

Our final episode of season 5 dives into key takeaways from this season, starting with a lesson about amenity-rich workplaces, and ending with an important question: How is AI impacting human interactions at work, and how must workplace design adapt? Host: news.millerknoll.com/Ryan-Anderson linkedin.com/in/ryaningr/ For more About Place, visit: millerknoll.com/ideas-in-action/about-place-podcast Connect with MillerKnoll: Instagram: instagram.com/millerknoll/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/millerknoll/

Set within San Francisco’s historic Mills Building, Gensler’s LEED Platinum and Fitwel 3‑Star-certified workplace reflects the firm’s commitment to research-driven, human‑centered design. In this episode, Randy Howder shares insights that shaped this destination workplace, which attracts people through inclusive, culture-forward space planning rather than return-to-office mandates. Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howder/ gensler.com/people/randy-howder More info: www.gensler.com/offices/san-francisco Host: news.millerknoll.com/Ryan-Anderson linkedin.com/in/ryaningr For more About Place, visit: millerknoll.com/ideas-in-action/about-place-podcast Connect with MillerKnoll: Instagram: instagram.com/millerknoll/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/millerknoll/

Lindsay Wilson, president of the fourth-largest architecture firm in the US, has a clear perspective on what makes spaces successful. In this episode, she explores how we experience great design, the shifting role of the office in our social networks, and the growing influence of brain health on her work at Corgan. Guest: corgan.com/firm/leadership/lindsay-wilson linkedin.com/in/lindsay-wilson-a6ba047/ Host: news.millerknoll.com/Ryan-Anderson linkedin.com/in/ryaningr/ For more About Place, visit: millerknoll.com/ideas-in-action/about-place-podcast Connect with MillerKnoll: Instagram: instagram.com/millerknoll/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/millerknoll/