obesity

Confusing change-making with actual change

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 604 Views complexity, design, developmental evaluation, discovery, evaluation, health, innovation, New York Times, obesity, psychology, research, social change, social innovation, systems thinking

Change-making is the process of transformation and not to be confused with the transformed outcome that results from such a

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Frogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media

December 30, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 1082 Views blogging, climate change, complexity, design, Facebook, Hossein Darakhshan, information design, information literacy, information technology, ISIS/ISIL, journalism, obesity, politics, social media, social networks, systems thinking, terrorism, wicked problems

Our information landscape has been compared with our diets providing an ample opportunity to compare what we ‘consume’ with how

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Systems and Design Thinking Go to the Ballpark

September 18, 2013September 19, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 402 Views architecture, baseball, Boston, Boston Red Sox, boundaries, design, design thinking, Fenway Park, obesity, psychology, public health, social determinants of health, systems thinking, Yoni Freedhoff

A recent trip to baseball’s legendary Fenway Park provided the ideal example of understanding systems and how they can create public health problems like obesity through structural means. Being aware of these systems, their boundaries, and their activities can help us better find the causes of individual activity by looking at what encourages behaviour not just what people do.

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Obesity the new tobacco?

July 29, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 312 Views health, nutrition, obesity, public health, tobacco

Is obesity the new tobacco? The parallels are striking.