The Stanford Medicine Studio is officially open for business! This state-of-the-art video and audio production space was built to accommodate the school's education content creation needs, including podcasts, courses, role-plays, and live broadcasts. Our hope is that this space will enable our incredible Stanford Medicine community to share their ideas more than ever.
The Podcast Studio, which I designed.
This studio was a passion project I was happy to lead in collaboration with the Educational Technology team. Recognizing the need for high-quality media production to be accessible and within reach of our faculty, students, and physicians, we first pitched this several years back. The return on investment is simple: creating content in our studio is 5-10x faster than on-location or freelance production. Importantly, the studio makes content creation feel easy, accessible, and, with our production team led by Adam Hain, really fun.
Bindu at the controls.
A Long Journey
Getting to this point was a long and slow journey. Over the last few years, alongside my studio planning partner, Bindu Madhava, whose been dreaming of this space for decades, I toured other production facilities, worked with an architecture firm to propose ideas for gut-renovation studio designs, researched and purchased over $300K of gear, and took over a pod in our open office space to stage and prototype our studio set up with the production team.
Space and funding constraints meant that, in the end, our team designed and built the entire studio from the ground up, starting in May of this year, after a few years of looking for spaces and planning. This was a blessing in disguise, as the experience we got in researching, building, testing, and planning everything was invaluable. Without the support and organizational maneuvering of our director, Teggin Summers, this couldn’t have happened.
My Role
Above: various brainstorming and planning documents I created to keep track of the studio project, define work-streams, plan layouts, and diagram signal flows.
In my leadership role, I pitched, planned, researched, budgeted, designed, and organized our team to work on this alongside all of our other team work, while ensuring that everyone could lead aspects of the project and have a sense of shared ownership. I'm very proud to have led the design of our podcast studio, which features a warm, calm vibe, but I'm most proud of how we stretched as a team to make it happen as a team.
As we wrap up the implementation of the studio itself, I’ll continue to provide oversight and input on the studio and technology itself, but I’m most looking forward to being on the other side of the camera and microphones as my new team (to be announced!) shines a light on the impact of AI on higher education.
If you’re interested in learning more, check out our website at med.stanford.edu/edtech. The production team at EdTech is awesome to work with; you’ll be in good hands!
As we wrap up the implementation of the studio itself, I’ll continue to provide oversight and input on the studio and technology itself, but I’m most looking forward to being on the other side of the camera and microphones as my new team (to be announced!) shines a light on the impact of AI on higher education.
If you’re interested in learning more, check out our website at med.stanford.edu/edtech. The production team at EdTech is awesome to work with; you’ll be in good hands!
