(May 5th, 2009) White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to Coordinate Efforts WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, in his FY2010 budget, will ask Congress to provide $50 million in seed capital for the Social Innovation Fund to identify the most promising, results-oriented non-profit programs and expand their reach throughout the country. Many […]
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Design and the Elastic Mind
March 12, 2008 
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An interesting way to document the historical interaction between science and design. This interface features over 300 designs that are featured in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. This is a good example of an exploratory, discovery-based interactive environment. Museum of Modern Ar: Elastic Mind Related: Visualizing Meaning (Cornell University) ………………….. -Daniel Montano […]
Read moreBeyond The Either/Or Fallacy of Nature vs. Nurture: Genes, environment and Co-Causality
October 13, 2007 0 Comments
Another nice move towards a more holistic systems perspective: “Among biology’s more riveting inquiries is the investigation of gene-environment interactions — the demonstration that a person’s genes constantly react to experience in a way that changes behavior, which in turn shapes environment, which in turn alters gene expression and so on. As David Olds described […]
Read moreThe age of machine-mediated empiricism
May 3, 2007 0 Comments
Traditional human-based empiricism as we knew it through many years ended with the advent of technology. It shifted and became a hybrid of linear mechanics and phenomenology. Today it is another type of hybrid it, is a hybrid of human phenomenology and digital phenomenology. Since science leads our concept of reality and science uses quite […]
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Connexions: Collaborative development of textbooks and educational materials
April 4, 2007 0 Comments
Quoting from TED Talks: “Richard Baraniuk is a Rice University professor with a giant vision: to create a free, global online education system. In this presentation, he introduces Connexions, the open-access publishing system that’s changing the landscape of education by providing free coursework and educational materials to everyone in the world. (Recorded February 2006 in […]
Read moreSustainable Innovation 2007
March 30, 2007 0 Comments
Sustainable Innovation 07 Global Building and Construction: Systems, Technologies, Products and Services 12th International Conference 29th – 30th October 2007 Farnham Castle Conference Centre Farnham, Surrey, UKBackground Globally the building and construction sector has a major ‘environmental footprint’, contributing over 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and generating high volumes of waste. Major projects such as […]
Read moreEthnographic Studies and Business Innovation (Video)
March 23, 2007 0 Comments
Ethnography is a type of “systems thinking” and it it has been receiving quite a bit of attention lately – even from the main-stream media. CNBC has a couple of videos on innovation. This video covers ethnographic studies and innovation types. http://innovation.cnbc.com/en/programmes/new_tricks_old_dogs ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information […]
Read moreIdeawicket – An Open Innovation Portal
March 22, 2007 0 Comments
A portal of innovation ideas that showcases proposals. It is video enabled, RSS friendly, Tag enabled. I would like to see more ideas under the tag: “Sustainability” but “Renewable” will do for now. Source: http://www.ideawicket.com/index.php And since we’re talking about sustainability, some folks are collecting some links about that topic: http://www.blinklist.com/tag/sustainability/ ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. […]
Read moreCo-maturing with innovation by raising our innovation consciousness.
March 1, 2007 0 Comments
BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum reported on an innovation “backlash” he has noticed. I think that these backlashes are usually caused by lack of education about innovation. The term “Innovation” is a very broad, and generalized term that can mean almost anything. Humanity has been innovating for more than 5,000 years. There are many innovation types, approaches, […]
Read moreBuckminster Fuller
February 10, 2007 0 Comments
Buckminster Fuller an innovator and forward-thinker was thinking about sustainability and socio-ecological issues about 70 years ago. ”Fuller was convinced that the accumulation of relevant knowledge, combined with the quantities of key recyclable resources that had already been extracted from the earth, had reached a critical level, such that competition for necessities was no longer […]
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