Environmental Effects and Change-Making
There are reasons people read or scroll through content on beautiful places and spaces; it inspires us to create. Our
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Culture Transitions and Transformations
It’s been said by (maybe) Peter Drucker and (definitely) the Internet that culture eats strategy for breakfast. This quote’s truth
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Policy Design For Human Behaviour
Policies are meant to guide human behaviour and introduce constraints at a collective level and that means understanding how humans
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Models, Frameworks, and Theories (Oh, My!)
Models, frameworks and theories are meant to guide what we do, yet they can also obscure what needs doing. The
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Toward Real Human Futures and Foresight
At the time of this writing, Russia has just invaded Ukraine, protesters have just left a 3-week occupation of the
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On Designing For Humans
Designing for Humans sounds like an obvious statement for designers, but very often we design things for things — systems,
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Bringing People Into the Design Process
I recently had a conversation with Scott Millar, host of the Cool Collaborations podcast, about design and collaboration and how
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Tricks with Tips
The proliferation of ‘tips and tricks’ for boosting change-making and innovation efforts obscures the craft and commitment that transformation requires.
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What is Evaluation? (And Why You Should Care)
Evaluation is a term that requires some rehabilitation. The term isn’t incorrect or outdated, just poorly understood and not much
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Lessons Taught, Learned, Forgotten, and Ignored
It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can
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