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November 25, 2024

Who are Ella and Faraz?

Meet your co-hosts and curious ambassadors. Faraz Shah and Ella Hazard share their backgrounds, experiences, and dreams for what Sense of Space might be. 

By: Metropolis Editors

Sense of Space is a new podcast about the built environment and how we engage with it as designers, architects, and people. Hosted by Turf’s brand director Faraz Shah and designer Ella Hazard, the show helps listeners explore the nuances of design. Presented by Turf and the SURROUND Podcast Network, Sense of Space is on a journey to deconstruct the built environment.

In this first episode, Faraz and Ella introduce themselves and discuss how music and design have shaped their professional journeys, from their intense design school days to their evolving practices. Faraz shares how working with engineers refined his focus on detail, while Ella reflects on how moving to the West Coast deepened her holistic approach to design, now centered on materials, circularity, and climate-focused innovation.

They examine their creative processes, recalibrating priorities in response to social and environmental change, while exploring the interplay between music, life-changes, and design. There’s more to come this season, as Faraz and Ella tackle big questions, including: Does nature design things? Can sound define space? Do buildings have souls?

Meet these two curious ambassadors, Faraz Shah and Ella Hazard. There is never a dull moment with them! Along the way, there’s always time and space for professional rants, current YouTube obsessions, and endearing digressions.

Listen to Sense of Space on SURROUND at surroundpodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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SANDOW Design Group is the parent company of Metropolis, as well as other leading architecture and design brands, including Interior Design, Luxe Interiors + Design, and ThinkLab.

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