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A World Free of Poverty?

If you have spent any time following this blog, you have most certainly run across Herbert Simon’s quote on the nature of design and the designer, where he posits “everyone designs who devises courses and actions aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones… design so construed, is the core of all professional training.” But what if the practitioner does not acknowledge that s/he is designing? Or, that s/he is even a designer?

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Communication Towers

Cooperation and collaboration has been a major force behind the advancement of man. From hunter-gatherer relationships to the division of labor, these splits have become…

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Research Insights

As modern technology and life spin faster and faster, at breakneck speed, all the while demanding that we keep up, new problems surface— creating a…

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Collabo Cubes

Design led research is an eye-opener to the capacity of developing creative experiments to alter situations. In the last assignment, I took a long-view approach…

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t r a n s – b a l a n c e

Our Design-led Research class has recently been focusing on different design methodologies, and how they can usefully be incorporated into design research – particularly to…

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photo credit: Aaron Cansler

What is this buzzword, Collaboration? There are so many different ways in which we can define, describe, strategize, theorize, and analyze it. Natalie Jeremijenko once…

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Our Story: Visualizing.org Marathon

Collaboratively authored by Howard Chambers, Francis Carter, Mai Kobori, and Steven Dale The inagural visualizing.org Marathon, sponsored by SEED magazine and GE, kicked off with…

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Motivating Collaboration

The magic of collaboration is evident when the collective output exceeds the individual inputs of a team (buzzword=synergy). A successful collaboration is a measure of…

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