Designing for Empathy and Health
When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The
Read moreMonth: July 2013
Of digital riptides and original sin — was the decline of newspapers inevitable?
Matthew Ingram does a good job of doing a retrospective on the state of newspapers and questioning the fit their
Read moreAttack on Anti-vac – Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny McCarthy
Yesterday I posted on the story of Toronto Public Health tweeting a call for its followers to voice concerns to
Read morePublic Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks
Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social
Read moreTips to Maximize Creativity at Work
How to maximize the creative potential of what you do? Becoming good at something is a huge start. But what
Read moreLow-profile public health job could mean best candidates won’t apply
If public health is important, should the presumably ‘top job’ in the field in a particular country not be highly
Read moreScaling Education: The Absurd Case of the MOOC
The MOOC offers enormous potential to re-shape the way people learn and promoting access to content and expertise that many in this world could have only dreamed of years ago. But the naivete that such learning can be done in an monocultural way without losing something special about the context in which people learn and use what they learn might lead to some expensive lessons.
Read moreMythmaking about speed and scale in social innovation
Yes, but does it scale? – Question asked at nearly every presentation on a social innovation ever made* It is
Read moreThe Developmental Evaluation and Design Imperative
Developmental evaluation is an approach to evaluating programs that takes account of complexity and changing conditions, supports innovation, and serves
Read moreDesign / Time
Design’s relationship with space is complex and well documented in the literature on architecture, interior design, and product innovation. The
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