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But not all jugaad stories have happy endings. M. P. Ranjan, an eminent Indian design thinker and a member of the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, says that the idea that ad-hoc fixes are good enough might actually be to blame for the country’s notoriously creaky infrastructure. “It is an…
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Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World’s Biggest Problems | Co.Design
Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World’s Biggest Problems | Co.Design studi0-reference: “ Prototype Design Camp was created by Christian Long, a visionary educator, to introduce and infuse design thinking skills into the K-12 landscape”
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AIGA Carnegie Mellon: “Design Thinking” Isn’t a Miracle Cure, but Here’s How It Helps
AIGA Carnegie Mellon: “Design Thinking” Isn’t a Miracle Cure, but Here’s How It Helps aigacmu: An interesting article that is very relevant to the discussions we are having in the School of Design and our current lecture series. Helen Walters writes: Recently, Kevin McCullagh of British product strategy consultancy, Plan organized a two-day event for…
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Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? | Co.Design
Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? | Co.Design stoweboyd: Bruce Nussbaum hits the eject button on Design Thinking, saying that this movement — which arose from agencies trying to reach past the narrow confines of product or brand-related design and into the real guts of business — has petered out, it’s goals…
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Pathfinders Medieval Siege Engine Kits-Trebuchet
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The NETLab Toolkit is a system for tangible interaction sketching and production. It enables novices and experts to quickly integrate hardware, media and interactive behaviors for products, installations, and research. The NETLab Toolkit (which we often abbreviate as NLTK) is a project of The New Ecology of Things Lab. (via NETLab Toolkit)
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The top Future Game Talent winners [for 2006] were the team from the University of Denver with their migrant farm worker-themed game Squeezed. FuturePlay Announces Game Competition Winners – GameCareerGuide.com
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However, there is an entirely new type of innovation thinking called “constraint-based innovation” – innovation that relies more on ingenuity in product, process and people to solve a customer’s problem by creative improvisation rather than scientific and technological breakthroughs. In India, colloquially, we call this “jugaad” and it’s now got a new name “frugal engineering.”…
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paperbits: Maria Montessori has a posse, yes she does (by cho girl)
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‘The creations they were working on were all over the map, crazy stuff. It was always very experimental, material that the world is not quite ready for…’ (via Apple’s Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its design genius? | Mail Online)