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On Death with Paul Bennet
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Paul Bennett is a designer. For 23 years he worked at design and innovation powerhouse IDEO, where he was Chief Creative Officer and then co-CEO. There he was responsible for content excellence across the whole firm, and was active in developing and publishing new thinking in the field of human-centered and design-led innovation.
Today, Paul is a Senior Advisor at McKinsey, where he continues to provide creative leadership and cross-pollination of insights and ideas to clients and colleagues on an extended scale by traveling, learning, and working across the globe.
Paul has taught and coached students from the Royal College of Art (UK), Stanford University and Columbia Business School. Most recently he has taught on the Masters program at KHiO in Oslo and at Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík.
We talk about:
- Redesigning death
- Losing parents
- Digital remains of our lives
- Death is a universal market opportunity
- Using the full extent of the design space death provides
- The pursuit of immortality
- Euthanasia
- Who matters more the dying or the left behind
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Chapters
1. From Art Kid to Design Career (00:00:00)
2. Confronting a Father's Death (00:04:58)
3. Illuminating the Void: Death's Hidden Truths (00:09:21)
4. Normalizing Conversation Around Death (00:13:40)
5. Silicon Valley's Quest for Immortality (00:21:55)
6. Redesigning Death Rituals (00:35:16)
7. Death as a Design Opportunity (00:45:18)
8. Learning to Resolutely Live (00:51:12)
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