Reblogged from Team cognition: Since R. Martin and others hijacked the term ‘designthinking’, there is an ongoing dispute. Two thought worlds exist and possibly these can be united by laying bare the essential characteristics of a ‘design thinker’. Thought worlds Design thinking frames the verb ‘design’ as a specific cognitive activity in order to solve […]
How to recognize Design Thinkers
by Cameron D. Norman • October 31st, 2012
Designing Spaces for Creativity
by Cameron D. Norman • October 21st, 2012
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 […]
The Hyberbole and Exaggerated Demise of Design Thinking
by Cameron D. Norman • June 14th, 2012
It is time to pull design thinking from the embers of hyperbole and placed under the microscope and macroscope of reflective practice and research. Once there, we might better comment on what this idea means for business, social innovation, human services and our overall wellbeing by pointing to something other than an exclamation mark to make our point.
Design 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 […]
Contemplating Better Public Health: Perspective is Everything
by Cameron D. Norman • May 31st, 2012
How might we apply the lessons from cigarette use to mental health promotion? How might we design programs, spaces, places, and social conventions that promote the quiet contemplative acts that come from taking that cigarette break and offer potentially great value to tobacco users without creating harmful effects for others?
Engaging design, complexity and imagining the systems that influence them both might yield considerable insight into how we manage other public health problems and how we might better promote mental health in the protection of physical well-being.