Monthly Archives: June 2008

The Measure of America

Get Ready to be Surprised! Coming July 16 from Columbia University Press: The Measure of America is the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of … Continue reading

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CoCreation / Sustainability’s FlipSide

Humantific CoFounders Elizabeth Pastor and GK VanPatter were invited to lead two hours of cross-disciplinary cocreation skill-building exercises with all participants attending the OverLap 2008 Conference in West Cornwall, Connecticut. Overlap is ambitiously advertised by its creators as “an annual, … Continue reading

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Humantific in TIME Magazine

Since we fly under the media radar most of the time Humantific was delighted to be featured in the Global Business section of TIME magazine’s May 2008 issue. Time’s Tiffany Starples came to visit us and after wrote entitled Different … Continue reading

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CoCreating Strategy

Humantific | StrategyLab has begun working with a telecommunications company in Madrid. In StrategyLab we work upstream from a typical design brief in the fuzzy opportunity space. We combine upstream research with Visual SenseMaking to create an insights field that … Continue reading

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Complexity Navigation Program

VHA, a leading health care alliance network is working with Humantific to bring next generation design thinking to its internal consulting group tasked with helping thousands of member hospitals tackle a diversity of wicked problems. VHA has multiple waves of consulting … Continue reading

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WorkshopONE Summer Session

Humantific has announced open registration for the 2008 summer session of WorkshopONE for the design community. Once each year since 2002 Humantific has offered the summer session through NextDesign Leadership Institute. This year it will be July 26 in New … Continue reading

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Bangalore Leadership Summit

As part of Raising the Bar: New Perspectives on Design, GK VanPatter gave the keynote talk on Design 3.0 / Understanding Design Now! at the Leadership through Design Summit in Bangalore, India. “Design with India is a collaborative initiative inspired … Continue reading

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