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Design For Social Innovation: An Interview With Ezio Manzini By Sarah Brooks
Ezio Manzini is an Italian design strategist, one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable design, author of numerous design books, professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic, and founder of the DESIS (Design for Social Innovation towards Sustainability) network of university-based design labs. His work over the past 30 years in sustainability and social innovation has coalesced around four watchwords: small, local, open and connected. On a recent Friday morning we spoke via skype and I was immediately impressed with his easy manner, warmth and balanced optimism.
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Clinic Center for Innovation - 2011 Transform Symposium
August 18, 2010 Kaiser Permanente is featured in the September issue of Harvard Business Review for successfully using human-centered design with our nurses and patients to improve quality and care delivery. Kaiser Permanente leads the health care industry in using design thinking to engage frontline staff to create solutions to universal problems in health care, such as medication administration error, nurse shift handoff and pain management. Design thinking is a particularly useful innovation tool because it brings both health care providers and patients into the process to design solutions together that result in patient-centric care. First published in 1922.
Kaiser Permanente's Innovation Consultancy Featured in 'Harvard Business Review' | Kaiser Permanente News Center
Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
But this area in southern , best known as the home of Absolut vodka, has not generally substituted solar panels or for the traditional fuels it has forsaken. Instead, as befits a region that is an epicenter of farming and food processing, it generates energy from a motley assortment of ingredients like potato peels, manure, used cooking oil, stale cookies and pig intestines. A hulking 10-year-old plant on the outskirts of Kristianstad uses a biological process to transform the detritus into biogas, a form of methane.Studios. 10-week new product and service development projects. All intellectual property developed during the project becomes the property of the project sponsor. Members have access to two studios per year, can fast track projects through the university, and all projects meet the Quality Improvement IRB requirements. Website & Project Process Logs. A unique 50+ sharing venue as well as an independent data repository developed for each project.
Live Well Collaborative
The design of politics In 2001, design and politics hit the news big time when it was revealed that Florida's badly designed butterfly ballot could have cost Al Gore the U.S. presidency. It is perhaps the most widely quoted example of the political impact of design. Yet pose the question, "Is design political?"
Is design political? - By Jennie Winhall
Design Thinking for Social Innovation (November 18, 2009) | Stanford Social Innovation Review
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design techniques to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were the first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—and nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too. I n an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from her home. She uses a 3-gallon plastic container that she can easily carry on her head. Shanti and her husband rely on the free water for their drinking and washing, and though they’ve heard that it’s not as safe as water from the Naandi Foundation-run community treatment plant, they still use it.
Social Design in Three Dimensions: Four Examples: Change Observer: Design Observer
What can an Indian solar energy company teach MFA design students in the U.S.? Judging from the work produced last fall in Allan Chochinov’s Design in Three Dimensions class at New York’s School of Visual Arts, the answer is a supple way to approach social problems in a wide spectrum of sizes, types and locales. Chochinov’s class began by studying SELCO , a Rockefeller Foundation–funded case study on design and social enterprise that was produced for the Yale School of Management with the assistance of Winterhouse Institute. SELCO tells the story of how a business used innovative products and strategies to sell solar-energy technology to clients in the developing world, including poor households lacking electricity.
In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm - NYTimes.com
Which was pretty much what happened. “We’re in our third month,” said one of the men, Clynton Taylor, “so we’re at about the halfway point.” This was a project room at Jump Associates, a company with 50 employees that comes up with ideas to solve what it calls “highly ambiguous problems.” Exactly what problem was being solved in the room, and which client asked Jump to solve it, the company wouldn’t say.