FUTURE OF XYZ

Lisa Gralnek

Booking Overview

This biweekly interview series explores future-oriented questions across design, art, architecture, science, innovation, and culture, featuring international experts, institutional leaders, founders, and changemakers. Credible pitches include senior design and architecture practitioners, contemporary art curators, innovation entrepreneurs, urban-development leaders, and executives shaping cultural or built-environment initiatives; booking difficulty is high because recent guests are accomplished and often internationally recognized.

Metrics

Episodes: 178

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 5.8k subscribers

Instagram: 254.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

lisa@lvg-co.com

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Host

Lisa Gralnek - Host of FUTURE OF XYZ, an award-winning interview series presented by iF Design.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior leaders, recognized practitioners, founders, curators, architects, artists, institutional executives, and subject-matter experts with substantial experience shaping design, art, architecture, innovation, infrastructure, or cultural initiatives.

Required Achievements:

Leadership of prominent companies, nonprofits, museums, cultural institutions, or community organizations, Recognized professional practice in architecture, design, art, or the built environment, Creation or leadership of influential innovation, infrastructure, or placemaking initiatives, National or international recognition within a specialized field

Recent Guest Discussions

Alexis Villanueva - Affordable Housing, Community Development, Capital Considerations, Policy, Youth Engagement, And Inclusive Leadership.

Nina Cooke John - Placemaking, Architecture, Public Gathering, Cultural Context, Legacy, And The Relationship Between Art And The Built Environment.

Nancy Spector - Contemporary Art, The Global Art Market, Immersive Experiences, Museums, Performance Art, Artists, And Artificial Intelligence.

Niles Parker - Historic Preservation, Cultural History, Urban Planning, Adaptive Reuse, Salvageability, Sense Of Place, And Storytelling.

Tiya Gordon - Electric-vehicle Charging, Urban Infrastructure, Grid Management, Business Models, Accessibility, And Design Aesthetics.

Recent Topics

Design, Design Trends, Architecture, Contemporary Art, Innovation

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

FUTURE OF XYZ

Future of Community Development | Alexis Villanueva | S8 E20

October 01, 2026

S8 E20: This week’s guest is Alexis Villanueva – longtime affordable housing advocate, President & CEO of City Heights Community Development Corporation- a California public benefit nonprofit corporation, and recent TEDx San Diego speaker alongside XYZ’s host, Lisa Gralnek. In this parallel release episode, Alexis shares her perspective on the ‘Future of Community Development’ from best practices and capital considerations, to policy linkages, youth engagement tactics, and much more. As t...

Future of Placemaking | Nina Cooke John | S8 E19

September 17, 2026

S8 E19: In the ‘Future of Placemaking’, acclaimed Architect & Artist, Nina Cooke John, joins us to talk about the practice of placemaking “as a way to transform relationships between people and the built environment”. This is a remarkable discussion in which Nina shares her detailed perspective on how a “legacy becomes living”, why people get “excited about the gathering”, when art makes architecture “playful and energetic”, and where design increasingly responds to the cultural abundance...

Future of Contemporary Art | Nancy Spector | S8 E18 (175th episode)

September 03, 2026

S8 E18 (Episode 175): For this special milestone edition, XYZ is speaking with the renowned and rather elusive, Nancy Spector, an independent art curator and former Artistic Director & Chief Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Now an advisor and guest curator for the Prada and Louis Vuitton Foundations, among other global institutes, we explore the art part of the $60 billion global art market. From the role of immersion and socialization in current contemporary art consump...

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