Emotional Honesty in Designing Change
Innovation is emotional work and it’s time to connect our feelings and thoughts to fuel our change efforts and actions.
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climate change
Design Publics
Design is far too important not to be shared and made as accessible as possible as our future literally depends
Read moreOur Paradoxical Age
If there was a word we could use to define the current times, paradox would certainly have to be a
Read moreFrogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media
Our information landscape has been compared with our diets providing an ample opportunity to compare what we ‘consume’ with how
Read moreComplexity and the Senseless Marketing of the Future
Futurists take what we know now and project into the future ideas about things will be like years from today
Read moreDevelopmental Design and Human Services
Applying developmental design may get us past the inevitable square-peg-round-hole problem that many evaluators, program planners and policy makers find themselves in as they seek to get greater value from their programs and demand more return on their investments. Evaluation and research is sought as the means to do it and with programs designed for evolution from the start, perhaps we won’t be surprised when the metaphorical ice sheets start to fall apart (as seen above) and see it as a developmental step to a new reality.
Read moreComplexity and the Information Landscape
How to make sense of information in a complex learning environment and why is it important? If we think about climate change, pandemic flu and other serious issues, we may come to the conclusion that this is among the most important topics we can devote time to.
Read moreAmazing 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.
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