Creating Sticky Networks
It seems that the recipe for creating networks that reduce social inequalities may also be the one that helps create ‘stickier’, more robust knowledge translation networks as well.
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Design, creativity, and design thinking
Innovation and (Higher) Education
In my last post I wrote about the problems facing scientific discovery and how our system of research funding and support is stifling opportunities for young innovators. I’d like to expand on that by focusing on the larger system that this research is couched in, particularly the way in which education is tied to …
Thinking: Why the Word Matters to Systems and Design
Thinking is a worthwhile term connected to ‘systems’ and ‘design’. New ways of visioning the systems we live in and how they are designed requires new ways of thinking and while it seemed funny at first, the use of the term ‘thinking’ seems more appropriate than ever to fit to both design and systems.
Amazing Stuff: December 14th Edition
Looking for awesome things, the latest in zombie attack science, solving the food shortage using Twitter, drinking tap water instead of bottles, or how little art pictures can help stimuate new thinking? Then this issue of Amazing Stuff has something for you.
Benchmarking Success in Times of Change
Beyond Google Wave, the metaphor of waves sloshing around in a sea of influence provides a useful metaphor for those interested in doing evaluation in an eHealth environment where there is no one cause and many consequences.
Amazing Stuff: November 14th Edition
What we eat, how we produce the food we eat, whether our healthcare is environmentally sustainable, and how mobile technologies can help connect teens to health and filmmakers to audiences is all part of this week’s edition of Amazing Stuff.
Amazing Stuff: November 6th Edition
From H1N1 apps for the iPhone, seeing the beauty of islands from space, the carbon footprint of pets, exploring innovation online, and visualizing the world around us using computer-assisted tools, the first week of November has offered a lot of amazing things.
Amazing Stuff: Halloween Edition
This week’s Halloween edition of Amazing stuff highlights a short video on complexity science (and organizing a children’s party), an unexpected (and amusing) link between environmental health + pornography, a map of illness, marketing and PR for the masses, and figuring out what meaning really means in the world of design.
Amazing Stuff
This week’s amazing stuff features design thinking, a post on the possible neurological basis for information addiction, another possible link between cigarettes and social media, a book of odds, and comment on social network democratization.