Monthly Archives: January 2008

WorkshopONE in Europe

Humantific InnovationLab has begun offering WorkshopONE in Europe. The first session for business executives in Madrid was a great success and lots of fun. WorkshopONE is a hands-on learning-by-doing session focused on building cross-disciplinary innovation skills. With giant interest in … Continue reading

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Teaching Visual SenseMaking

Elizabeth Pastor is teaching Visual Sensemaking to the Strategic Services Group within VHA Hospitals Association. With their member hospitals facing massive continuous change in the healthcare industry, VHA is proactively working with NextDesign Leadership Institute in New York to create … Continue reading

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Transforming Transformation

Continuing to expand the conversation around Design 3.0 / Transformation, GK VanPatter and Elizabeth pastor launched Transforming Transformation discussion list as an experiment on Google Groups in August 2007. Transforming Transformation is a global interaction platform for discussions related to … Continue reading

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Executive Education Program Launches

Humantific, Basadur Applied Creativity and In/Situm, in collaboration with NextDesign Leadership Institute, have created a new executive education program. The new innovation enabling-focused curriculum encompasses basic skill-building in Strategic Co-Creation, Design Research and Visual Sensemaking. Its the skill set many … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Pastor Speaks

The Future of Design roundtable discussion at Cooper Union wrapped up on September 5, 2007. In addition to Humantific, other firms participating were Imagination, Frog Design, and Cheskin.

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Interactive Innovation Profile

NextDesign Leadership Institute in partnership with Basadur Applied Creativity have launched a new interactive innovation profile. Next generation innovation leaders know the importance of having access to new insight tools in order to understand and effectively lead cross-disciplinary teams. If … Continue reading

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GK VanPatter Collaborates with Microsoft

In collaboration with Microsoft and their Experience Expression road show launching Expression Studio, GK VanPatter gave talks in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver on Design 3.0 and the transformation underway in the design community. Road show presenters included David Crow and … Continue reading

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Humantific in PhD Study

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We love to see others inspired by Humantific. Each year we receive many requests from graduate students and PhD students who want to interact with Humantific, ask us questions, study what we are doing. Although we are not set up to … Continue reading

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NextD WorkshopONE Wraps

It’s an event that happens only once a year! The sold out 2007 Summer Session of NextD WorkshopONE in New York wrapped up on Saturday, July 14. An amazingly energetic group of thirty people from seven countries attended a jam-packed … Continue reading

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GK VanPatter on Inclusive Innovation

GK VanPatter gave a talk on Inclusive Innovation / Maximizing Organizational Diversity Now! at the Design Management Institute’s Integration Imperative Conference in Chicago.

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Humantific Teaching in Madrid

Humantific is helping DNX Group in Madrid create a new set of visually oriented tools to aid in the delivery of their user-centered research.

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OPEN DATA Conference in New York

Humantific works with the founders of AttentionTrust to design the conference communication materials for the first open data conference.

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ReThinking Wicked Problems

GK VanPatter, Jeff Conklin and Min Basadur engage in an in depth two part NextD Journal conversation on the subject of wicked problems. Many insights come to light as they unpack and make sense of this complicated subject: Part 1 … Continue reading

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Design 3.0 in Madrid

NextDesign Leadership Co-Founders GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor gave a talk on Design 3.0 in Madrid on February 29th.

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Design With India Strategy Session

Tickets for this evening event are selling out fast. February 5th, 2007 5:45 – 8:00pm Asia Society 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street This evening event in New York City has been designed and organized as a panel session by … Continue reading

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