Learning By Doing – Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA, Lab Chief, Rockwell Group
Recap
A good presentation on an industrial’s stating his work history and view of environment design and interaction design and where design may be headed. He relates play to learning and design.
Opinion & Questions: Design should be validated via feedback [...]
Moral Leadership for a more Inclusive Future
Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen Fund
Opening Points
I. Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
Think more broadly about what poverty means.
II. Charity and aid alone will not solve the problem of poverty.
Charities “create dependency rather than dignity.”
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Presentation:
Q&A:
This lecture is part of Bruce Nussbaum’s Design At The Edge lecture series.
Rajesh Bilimoria, Vice-President of Continuum
Rajesh presented on some of the current intricacies of how money is used and ways to create new offerings for consumer financial products and services.
Case studies
Rajesh cites case studies like Kenya’s M-Pesa, Visa’s black card (which he says the concept actually existed as a [...]
Valerie Casey, Fastcompany/Designers Accord
chunked notes and quotes
“I’m going to talk about where I think design is going…”
“there is no working business model here.”
“the story we tell of design is so completely out of wack with business.”
“Process problems”
“The myth of designers as magicians” Related to Jason [...]
Sunshine Generation
Bruce Nussbaum brought Ziba’s Karen Reuther and founder Sohrab Vossoughi to Parsons on Monday the 7th. They open the presentation with “The revolution is underway.” The presentation was based around the “Sunshine Generation” in China, young urbanites that grew up not knowing Tian’anmen’s square and have only seen economy growth.
Karen Reuther [...]
