Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Visual SenseMaking for Leaders

Published on July 31, 2008 in News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Humantific will hold its first OPEN Visual SenseMaking for Leaders Workshop in October, 2008 in New York. Previously only available as part of the Complexity Navigation Program (seen in the photos above) this new condensed Introduction to Visual SenseMaking is designed as a one day session for business leaders who have to explain complex ideas, stories, strategies, products, services, change initiatives, etc, to diverse audiences; investors, partners, employees, customers, etc. Participants are introduced to the power of visual thinking and learn some basic methods for making visual sense of complex situations. This one day workshop is ideally suited to business executives, team leaders, project managers who want to tap into Visual SenseMaking as part of their design thinking toolbox. Space is limited. If you would like more info about this or any Humantific learning program send an email to programs (at) humantific (dot) com.

Visual SenseMaking for Kids

Published on July 31, 2008 in Blog. 0 Comments

As part of “Take your Daughter to Work Day” Humantific recently had young Sophie visit the office for half day of learning about Measure of America. Sophie saw how the book was created and what the research in the book says about America. As part of her learning experience Elizabeth lead Sophie through some Visual SenseMaking exercises to understand what Human Development is. Sophie made her own drawings to make sense of it from her perspective. See what great visuals Sophie came up with!

The Humantific | UnderstandingLab team is interested in teaching visual sense-making skills to children in class-room settings. If you know of a class interested in learning about Human Development (or any other complex subject that needs to be made understandable), please contact epastor (at) humantific (dot) com.

Measure Report on WorldChanging

Published on July 24, 2008 in News. 0 Comments


Raising awareness and stimulating discussion The Measure of America has already appeared on hundreds of blogs including WorldChanging.

Some examples:

WorldChanging

Report Documents Social Decay of the United States

Obama 08 / What McCain Fails to See

Richard Florida / American Human Development Index

A New Way of Defining Progress

American Inequity—In Graph Form!

Physicians For National Health Program

Sliding from the “American Dream” to Social Decay

America Goes Down the Toilet

Staggering

U.S. – Not Number One Anymore

New York nabs top country in ‘well-being’ report, but U.S. lags behind

A National Assessment of Our Well Being

United States US ranks 42nd in life expectancy

Shocking results from American Human Development Index

More Proof That America May Have Lost Its “great Nation” Status

Results are in: California’s San Joaquin Valley is the worst

We are Dead Last in the Measure of America

We suck. Lessons from the American Human Development Report

Think Life Isn’t Fair? Well, Here’s Some Proof

A 30 Year Gap in U.S. Life Expectancy

Slip slidin’ away: quality of life in America

The Land of the Imprisoned and the Home of the Fearful

Where is the Good Part?

Better World / Design Activism

US health care trounced in yet another global study

Measure Report on BBC

Published on July 24, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

The Measure of America was officially launched at a news conference in Washington on July 16th. News coverage was jump started by the BBC. In the first 48 hours, the new Measure of America story was picked up by international news services and many bloggers around the world.

A few examples:

BBC News – US slips down development index

The Guardian – US fails to measure up on ‘human index’

The Washington Times – New study ranks U.S. well-being

The Independent – American Inequality highlighted

Global Research – Report documents social decay of the United States

Chronicle of Philanthropy – Report Details Best and Worst

SIRATYST – U.S. Flunks Human Index Report