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This is Serious Play

How we trigger memories through ritual and play to create the starting points for future action…

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Le Cose Belle Sono Lente

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgLMA73XhLY It seems to me that the quickness installed by the Industrial Revolution, and later leveraged by technology and new media, has gotten under our…

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Beyond The Quo

Car Hood Ornament

Last week, some friends and I took up an invitation to hear Ray Kurzweil keynote the World Technology Awards. When I first read his book…

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Everyone’s a Critic …

Critical Design has been gaining more and more momentum in the design circles in the past few years and lately it’s been a major part…

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Design Futures: the words we use matter

The design world seems to be grappling with describing its value beyond aesthetics. Designers, including myself on occasion, have casually thrown around the phrase: ‘Design…

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Cigarettes, Design, and Behavioral Change

In the Transdisciplinary Design Seminar, we have been discussing whether design can change behavior. The US Food & Drug Administration seems to think that it…

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Theory of Boredom

The paradox that confronts us all at the moment is the dazzling ability to put our hands on so much information and so many connections combined with the need to make slow, thoughtful, and hard-to-see connections between these bits of information.

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