D.school: Institute of Design at Stanford. Global Service Jam. It's over.
Global Service Jam 2014 is over. This is the ninth time we have written those words, as they (or something very like them) have closed every Jam since the first Global Service Jam in 2011. In those three short years, the Global Jams - Service, Sustainabillity and Gov - have grown and evolved. Where three years ago we fought to persuade people to stop discussing and start building, now our “doing not talking” mantra can remain unsaid. Turning Design Thinking to Design Doing. Getting started: insights from experiments in Southeast Asia.
Design thinking can be a powerful approach that helps organizations break through their limiting assumptions of what is possible. It creates deep empathy and gets us out of the abstract debate over ideas in meeting rooms, to a place where we can collaboratively create and test tangible concepts. The theory is great, but getting to implementation is often difficult. Design as a craft. A knitting circle rather. “Design Thinking for Social Innovation” in Stanford Social Innovation Review at IDEO.