Reblogged from Creativity & Innovation: I’ve just spent two stimulating days with a small group of architects, university professors, and creativity researchers, at a beautiful old lakeside estate called Marigold Lodge, in Western Michigan. Our goal: To collect everything we know about how to design spaces that maximize learning and foster creativity. With funding from the Sloan […]
Designing Spaces for Creativity
by Cameron D. Norman • October 21st, 2012
Wonderland
by Rita J. King • June 22nd, 2012
Kirsty Mitchell’s Wonderland is one of the most beautiful responses to grief I’ve ever seen in my entire life. “Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the p…
Read MoreDesign Thinking’s Timely Death
by Cameron D. Norman • June 13th, 2012
Reblogged from The Multidisciplinarian: William Storage 11 Jun 2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society Design Thinking is getting a new life. We should bury it instead. Here’s why. Its Humble Origins In 1979 Bruce Archer, the great mechanical engineer and professor at the Royal College of Art, wrote […]
Innovation, Design Thinking and the Folly of Fads
by Cameron D. Norman • May 24th, 2012
Is it time to move on or shall we try to invigorate the discussion of concepts like innovation and design thinking with dialogue, evidence and (self-referentially) some innovation and design thinking to advance not only the discourse on these topics, but also their adoption, study and adaptation to help us tackle the complex, wicked and pervasive problems that seem to be growing in our world each day.
Social Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)
by Cameron D. Norman • May 18th, 2012
Systems thinking, design thinking, developmental evaluation, creativity, networks and innovation: these are the keywords for health in the coming years. They are as author Eric Topol calls the dawning of the creative destruction of medicine. The public is already using social media for health and now the time has come for health (care, promotion and protection) systems to get on board and make the changes necessary to join them. 
Beautiful Folding Chair Made from Single Piece of Cardboard
by Joshua S. Fouts • November 13th, 2011
A folding cardboard chair and desk. One sheet, no cuts.I love innovations like this.Via @JohnMaeda
Read MoreQuid nunc cogitat? In search of a definition of design thinking
by Cameron D. Norman • September 10th, 2011
Design thinking is a concept that has gained much purchase in the creative industries and beyond, but what does it mean and does it matter? Determining an answer to this question might mean the difference between advancing it further or ending the concept’s use altogether. The Latin form of the question of “what is design […]
Extra-Sensory Knowledge Translation and Design
by Cameron D. Norman • August 18th, 2011
What if we could cultivate the means to be intimate with these methods in the service of better design and communication? What kind of design would that look like? Could we engage a much broader range of people into the discussion? Right now, we privilege those who can write and speak well, those who are forward (i.e., extroverted) and verbal, at the expense of those who might have as much to offer, but for whom writing, reading or oral communication might not be their strongest method of communication, yet that is all they are given. 
Design for Social Norms or Social Change?
by Cameron D. Norman • August 6th, 2011
Just as we create path dependencies for one set of values, so too can we do the same for others and with other people. The focus on the outcomes of systems rather than their design is problematic if we want change. Starting with design and values at the outset, being conscious of who we invite in and how we engage them and by remaining contemplative about how these systems unfold and the emergent patterns that shape them, designers of all stripes may be better positioned to create social change rather than just for social norms.
The Persistent Myth of the Lone Genius in Art and Science
by Cameron D. Norman • June 7th, 2011
Of the many persistent myths about innovation, the lone genius is about the most sticky. Continued research shows how untrue this is.
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