Climate Design For A World on Fire: Part 1
This week, the world is noticing what happens when we ignore climate change. The alarms are (literally) ringing, and designers
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climate change
Living Our Future Selves Today With Foresight
Strategic Foresight can do more than help us to see what might come, it can help us to live better
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Earth Day Psychology
Earth Day provides us with an opportunity to reflect on our place on this planet. The planet needs action not
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Climate Changes
Our future depends on our ability to change how we see ourselves and the world and act on it —
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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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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.
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