Apple TV+ Home’s Doug Pray and Matt Weaver: Designing spaces that change behavior and create opportunity

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of the designed objects we interact with on a daily basis, our homes are probably the most influential on the way we live our lives. In Apple’s new series</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Home,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">the creators investigate the ways that some of the world’s most imaginative dwellings help their occupants reframe the way they live and work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we chat with Matt Weaver and Doug Pray, who are both executive producers for the show. Matt also produced several other notable documentaries, including</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chef’s Table</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jiro Dreams of Sushi.</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to directing several episodes of the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Home,</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Doug has directed or produced a number of documentaries including</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Defiant Ones</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, and collaborated with Doug on the documentary</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Surfwise</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re always curious how creative folks in different industries address challenging design problems, so we asked Matt and Doug about how the subjects of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Home</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">used their own stubbornness and resilience to push their projects forward, how constraints of location and material encouraged creative solutions, and about some of the common threads they see across creative disciplines.</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>Takeaways:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How the creators profiled in</span> <em><span st