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MemberChange Observer is a channel of Design Observer devoted to the many dimensions of design for social innovation, developed by Winterhouse Institute with support from Rockefeller Foundation. It provides timely information about design strategies aimed globally at improving health, education, housing, and the environment, and features reportage, interviews, opinion pieces, book and exhibition reviews, a photo gallery, and a resource center compiling information about key organizations and events. Change Observer not only identifies important people and projects related to design for social change; it also assesses their effectiveness through investigative reports by renowned journalists.
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Design-Observer Change-Observer wrote a new blog post: Small, Local, Open and Connected: Resilient Systems and Sustainable Qualities 2 months, 1 week ago · View
Reposted from Design Observer – Change Observer – Essay by Ezio Manzini This article is part of a series supporting Compostmodern13, a 2-day conference March 22 + 23 in San Francisco, exploring design’s role in creating a more resilient world, with some of the world’s leading designers, entrepreneurs, scientists, architects and more. How do we design a resilient [...] -
Design-Observer Change-Observer wrote a new blog post: Small, Local, Open and Connected: Resilient Systems and Sustainable Qualities 3 months ago · View
Reposted from Design Observer – Change Observer – Essay by Ezio Manzini How do we design a resilient socio-technical system? Let’s look to natural systems; their tolerance of breakdowns and their adaptation capacity (that is, their capability of sustaining over time) may give us direction (Fiksel, 2003; Manzini, 2012). As a matter of fact, it is [...] -
Design-Observer Change-Observer wrote a new blog post: Card Tricks 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Reposted from Design Observer: Observatory – By Rob Walker The digital does not annihilate the analog. It glorifies it. Paper books and vinyl records were once quotidian; today they are objects to defend, romanticize, venerate. Or consider this example: the humble business card. As a genre of object, it is “ doomed,” one technology observer asserted not [...] -
Design-Observer Change-Observer wrote a new blog post: Winterhouse Third Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final Report 5 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Reposted from Change Observer – By William Drenttel & Michael Mossoba Symposium Participants, Yale University, 2012 The Winterhouse Third Symposium on Design Education and Social Change was held at Yale University, August 19-21, 2012. Thought leaders from various disciplines (design, engineering, architecture and management) and from across the country convened to share ideas about the future of [...] -
Design-Observer Change-Observer wrote a new blog post: Project Dose 8 months, 1 week ago · View
Reposted from Design Observer: Change Observer – By Ernest Beck The Project Dose medicine crusher produced by T4T in Uganda. Photo: Linda Pulik Hospitals and healthcare facilities in developing countries face problems ranging form overcrowding to underfunding and a lack of available staff, medical equipment and supplies. One lesser-known issue is the limited availability and high [...] -
Design-Observer Change-Observer wrote a new blog post: Flies in Urinals: The Value of Design Disruptions 9 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Essay reposted from Design Observer: Change Observer – Andrew Shea I stream the news on my phone most mornings as I wake up, taking it from bedroom to bathroom, from kitchen to wherever. In January I heard a report about behavior change that stopped me in my tracks somewhere along the way. I think a lot [...] -
Design-Observer Change-Observer wrote a new blog post: Designing for Social Change 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Reposted from Design Observer: Change Observer – Essay: William Drenttel In June 2008 I attended a workshop called “ Design for Social Impact ” sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation at its center on Lake Como in Bellagio, Italy. In this unusually bucolic setting in the southern Alps, twenty designers from a dozen countries pondered the question of whether design [...]
