Both Seth Godin and Bruce Nussbaum have expressed their opinions over the latest move by the One Laptop Per Child group to sell one laptop while giving one away for free in the developing world. Nussbaum think it’s time to call it a failure. Expressing design flaws such as “top down” design and lack of […]
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Bratton Admits Skid Row Displacement
October 9, 2007 
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Pushing people around from one problem area to another does not solve any problems – it shifts them. Comprehensive solution systems are needed to solve problems like these: “Los Angeles city leaders launched a campaign a year ago to reduce crime in downtown’s skid row by deploying 50 additional police officers and declaring they would […]
Read moreThe Virgin Earth Challenge
May 19, 2007 0 Comments
“The Virgin Earth Challenge is a prize of $25m for whoever can demonstrate to the judges’ satisfaction a commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases so as to contribute materially to the stability of Earth’s climate.” Source Go to the official Virgin Earth Challenge website >> On Wikipedia Wikipedia […]
Read moreUser experience design and social systems
April 30, 2007 1 Comment
Sometimes it seems that we place more value and investment in the design of our consumer products than the design of our social systems. Non-profit organizations, our educational system, and government departments in general would benefit from rethinking their systems through the user experience design lens. Points to keep in mind: – ask people what […]
Read moreSystems thinking. A simple introduction.
March 2, 2007 0 Comments
“The principal goal of education is to create individuals who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.”– Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist. Part of our challenge today is to simplify knowlege and make it usable, accessible, understandable, digestable for audiences that use different modalities to learn […]
Read moreWilliam A. McDonough’s “Cradle-to-Cradle” Design Philosophy
February 28, 2007 1 Comment
“William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, stating that “his utopianism is grounded in a […]
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Alternative fuels industry?
February 21, 2007 0 Comments
Today in California Barack Obama proposed the introduction of an “alternative fuels industry”. He proposed that this would lead to the creation of new jobs. “2006 – U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) introduced legislation that would require oil companies making in excess of $1 billion in profits during the first quarter of 2006 to invest […]
Read moreCK Prahalad and the Bottom of the pyramid
February 20, 2007 0 Comments
Wikipedia entry on CK Prahalad, a business innovator promoting : “The phrase “bottom of the pyramid” was used by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in his April 7, 1932 radio address, The Forgotten Man, in which he said “These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but […]
Read moreThe paradoxical innovator and the socio-ecological economy
February 20, 2007 0 Comments
Find a paradox and you will find an opportunity to innovate. Most paradoxes are based on closed-minded conclusions, assumptions, outdated information, dogmatic limitations, single-value concepts, narrow scope — mostly due to the use of a limited number of perspective(s) or static ways of thinking. For example, today there are many humane interests that are still […]
Read moreChanging the educational system with systems thinking
February 19, 2007 0 Comments
“What is the question?”. Gertrude Stein This document poses many questions for change agents in the educational system to ask. Toward Systemic Educational Change. Questions from a complex systems perspective.Read more >> This paper ends with a list identifying the types of perspectives needed to further the insight into possible solution system. Groups of multi-disciplinary […]
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