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Teaching design thinking through gamification

Teaching design thinking through gamification

We know we’re creating problems that the next generation will be left to fix, so the least we can do is to give them the skills to fix them, and yet we’re still failing on a grand scale. The good news is that we’re discovering new ways to help them work out how to do […]

Vancouver Meetup: W2 Media Cafe – Case Study in Collaboration & Design

Vancouver Meetup: W2 Media Cafe – Case Study in Collaboration & Design

Join Net Impact Vancouver and the Vancouver Graphic & Communication Design Meetup to hear the inside story of W2 Media Cafe. Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director, will share the history of this six-year, collaborative project, reflecting on the organizational design that went in to bringing eight non-profits together around a compelling vision. Be among the first […]

design@cbsCafé

design@cbsCafé

The Copenhagen Business School is an extremely diverse institution — including lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and around 18,000 students.  So perhaps I shouldn’t haven been surprised to find a cluster of people interested in the intersection of business and design. I happened to arrive in time for the design@ cbs Café.  According to the invitation […]

the future of design

the future of design

I like it when Monocle presents little essays on topics — like in the May 2011 issue where 5 short essay on the future of design entertain and educate us.  http://www.monocle.com/Magazine/volume-05/issue-43/ The titles themselves are both fun and raise one’s curiosity: Someone please save us from the tasteless and tawdry (Tyler Brule, Editor of Monocle) […]