Bringing Design Closer With Gerry Scullion

Hey folks, welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling sometimes complex societal issues. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes , providing training for people within the Design and change-making space. We also have our new Doing Design Festival series now, with the next event on June 18 with the theme ‘Doing Design Online’ with some of the TiD talking about loads of related its. More info see doingdesignfestival.com Before we jump into this episode, I wanted to alert listeners that this episode may contain content that is triggering to some people. In it we discuss sexual abuse and working with Design alongside issues of trauma. Today on the show we have Rachael Dietkus a phenomenal person and advocate for trauma led approaches in design. First and foremost, Rachael is a social worker, based 2-hours south of Chicago in Urbana Champai