Helsinki Design Lab: Strategic Design in action
Dark matter. That caught my attention. I was lunching with Bryan Boyer, one of the designers at the Helsinki Design Lab. We were in a relatively new little restaurant in Helsinki talking about changing the world — through strategic design. One of the motivations for attending the early July 2012 EGOS conference (European Group for […]
Different sides of Creativity — The Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural
Vandalism or creativity? How much of this is considered an expression of art, and how much of this is considered damaging public properties? Yes, I am talking about graffiti. Graffiti refers to drawings or scribbles created illicitly on public surfaces such as walls. Just two years ago, a Swiss National was charged for spray-painting […]
Glassblowing — just like a design process
Talk about Venice—and the first thing that pops up in many of our minds is a “City of Water.” Indeed, when I was travelling in Venice during my teens, one thing I found it difficult to believe was that there were such things as “a water police, a water fire station, and a water taxi.” […]
Business Innovation makes parents’ lives easier
A fact about me. I love working with children. Simply interacting with them makes me really happy. In fact, a lot of people have actually asked me why am I in Business, and not Education? Well, I believe taking a degree in Business will still open up a career with children. One day I was […]
Innovate
What do all these designs have in common? Innovation. Something out of the blue. Something interesting. Something that not many people would ideate and think it is feasible enough. Recently, Moura (the professor of Sauder d.studio) shared with our team a really interesting article from 7ideas.net: 21 illustrated idea killers – reasons why creative […]
Inspiration
Ever wonder what is it like to have technological ideas made into a form of art? ‘Kinetic Rain’, a sculpture made up of 1216 bronze droplets that transforms elegantly into multiple shapes, akin to poetry in motion can be seen in Terminal 1 of Singapore Changi Airport. Credit: http://www.changiairport.com/at-changi/our-terminals/terminal-1 Just watching this piece of artwork through […]
World Class Cities Partnership Summit: overview
Barcelona. Lisbon. Vancouver. Haifa. Boston. Hamburg. Lyon. Dublin. What do these great cities have in common? They are members of the World Class Cities Partnership — a group of medium sized (i.e., not uber-urban conurbations like NY or London or Tokyo) keen on sharing best practices in urban sustainability and collaborating between cities and universities […]
Creative Business Thinking: finale
It’s all about using constraints to be more creative. That was one of the final messages that Balder left the students with during the Creative Business Thinking finale. Looking into the idea of constraints and creativity unearths some good back-up research. For example, from a team at the University of Amsterdam. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21875228 Their work is […]
My view on design thinking …
It’s difficult to explain what design thinking is to someone, unless you really immerse yourself in doing it. Here’s a short clip I found on what design thinking is. It’s a trailer to a ‘Design Thinking’ documentary. Design thinking is … “applying the methodologies and approaches of design to a broad set of issues and […]
Teambuilding in Sauder d.studio
Time really does fly. It has been a month since I have been working at the Sauder Studio. And I just thought I would write something about the learning experience here. So this Wednesday, we had a team-building day. And better still, our new MBA graduate Business and Development colleague, Chris, and I got to […]