The 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
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Too Much Social Media, Not Enough Social Message
Social media is any networked information technology, tool or platform that derives its content and principal value from user engagement
Read moreDesigning a Social Innovation Wonderwall
Paying attention to the social, technological, economic and environmental stresses and challenges we face isn’t always conducive to positive thinking
Read moreMarketing Metaphors of Meaning in Complexity
Marketing is largely about identity and stories about identity. Marketers want to influence what you do (choose, use, purchase, etc..) and how you experience what you do when you do it. To do this, they know the importance of design and the stories to accompany that design. Design, when done well, is partly about creating empathy with those who are to benefit from the products of design and the best products out there are ones that apply empathy and guide behaviour at the same time. Storytelling is the vehicle that links them together.
Read moreContemplating Better Public Health: Perspective is Everything
How might we apply the lessons from cigarette use to mental health promotion? How might we design programs, spaces, places, and social conventions that promote the quiet contemplative acts that come from taking that cigarette break and offer potentially great value to tobacco users without creating harmful effects for others?
Engaging design, complexity and imagining the systems that influence them both might yield considerable insight into how we manage other public health problems and how we might better promote mental health in the protection of physical well-being.
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