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Tuomas Auvinen is the Dean of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University in Finland, a school ranked among the top ten in the world for art and design. He is Aalto’s Champion of Radical Creativity and a co-founder of the university’s Centre for Radical Creativity. Before Aalto, he led the Sibelius…

Stephen Bottomley is Professor of Jewellery Cultures and Innovation and Head of the School of Design at Glasgow School of Art, where he has led the school since 2022. He trained as a goldsmith and jeweller, is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, and his own work is held in collections including the…

Patrick Collins is a sales coach and consultant based in Vilnius, originally from the UK, who moved from a career as a professional footballer into sales, consulting, and startup coaching. He is the founder of The Relationship of Sales, his training practice built around treating sales as trust-building rather than persuasion, and has recently co-founded…

Amanda Schneider is the founder and president of ThinkLab, a market research and strategy firm for the architecture and interior design industry, now the research division of Sandow, the parent company of Interior Design Magazine, Metropolis, and Design Milk. She is the author of the bestselling book Work for What’s Next: Why Workplace Culture Is…

Heidi Rundt has been CEO of Hyper Island since 2017, the Sweden-born creative business school that has spent thirty years training people who work in design, marketing, and innovation. Our conversation moved through the model that replaced teachers with facilitators and a global practitioner network, the redesigned Master’s program that pairs students with real organizational…

I wanted to ask Ana Maria Pinto da Silva where creativity comes from. We ended up talking about something bigger: how we learn across a lifetime, and what we lose and gain when institutions define learning for us. Ana is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Design. She’s been an architect, a world builder…

Ekaterina Solomeina is a creative director, writer, and co-founder of Future London Academy — the executive school for creatives recognised by the Don Norman Design Award, It’s Nice That, Dezeen, and AIGA, whose alumni now lead design at companies like Apple, Nike, Netflix, and BMW. In this talk, Ekaterina traces the school’s journey from in-person…

Dr Chris Mitchell is Head of Academic Strategy Development at the Royal College of Art and the creator of the MA in Creative Education — a hybrid programme that brings together educators, designers, and creative practitioners from around the world. In this talk, Chris explores what formal education is really for in an era when…

Creativity is often treated as something mysterious: either you have it, or you do not. But in design education, the question becomes more practical — can creativity be developed, trained, and protected? In this episode of Bloomerangas, we speak with Rūta Valušytė, Head of the Design Centre at Kaunas University of Technology and one of…

We live in a world of constant input. Notifications. Messages. Meetings. Tabs. Short-form videos. Endless feeds. AI tools that help us move faster, think faster, and produce faster. And yet, for all this speed and convenience, many people feel increasingly tired, mentally scattered, and creatively flat. Why? A recent Bloomerangas Podcast conversation with Lina Žemaitytė-Kirkman,…

In this episode, we speak with Andra Bagdonaitė, venture capital investor and Partner at FIRSTPICK — a high-speed VC fund and accelerator backing ambitious early-stage startups across the Baltic region (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia). Andra shares insights from her experience investing at the pre-seed and seed stages, often becoming the first investor on a startup’s…

Jessica Dance is a UK-based artist, designer, and creative coach who has worked with brands including Vogue, Nike, Barbie, British Airways and Google. After years in the creative industry, she trained as a coach following a period of burnout, combining art, business and psychology to support creative entrepreneurs in building lives and businesses that are…