
Steven Orfield
Founder and president of Orfield Laboratories, a multi-sensory design research lab in Minneapolis; expert in acoustics, sensory design, and inclusive environments.
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Jun 2, 2026
Episode 07: Use It or Lose It - The Brain, Lifelong Learning, and the Courage to Stay Curious
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Steven OrfieldGUEST
So it's much more, it's much more rewarding to work with people where they get what you... or what you're teaching them, because what we do is we don't market to people, we teach people.

Steven OrfieldGUEST
We bring them in, we bring them through all kinds of demonstrations so that they can understand visual and acoustic and all this stuff.

Steven OrfieldGUEST
And then we explain to them that we're gonna design a dementia home for your people that's gonna look so boring to an architect that they'd say, "This is just plain ugly." But it's gonna have all the technical specifications so that you don't need to visually adapt in the whole building.

Steven OrfieldGUEST
You don't need to adapt to, to, to sound because everything is so quiet, you can hear twice as well as you can in the real world.And on and on.

Steven OrfieldGUEST
And when we built our first dementia center, um, we, we designed a space that we called, uh, perceptually quiet.
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