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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Humantific at Arizona State University

Humantific CoFounder GK VanPatter will give a talk on Making Thinkmospheres Transparent at the upcoming EXPOSED conference being organized by Master of Science and PhD students at the Arizona State University College of Design, March 6th & 7th. From the … Continue reading
Understanding Social SenseMaking

Garry VanPatter posts to the Social SenseMaking Group on Facebook explaining how 21st century SenseMaking and Social SenseMaking in particular differ from Karl Weick’s SenseMaking. “We consider Weick to be among the pioneers of the contemporary sensemaking movement. As you know, … Continue reading
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Tagged Karl E Weick, Richard Saul Wurman, social change, social innovation, social transformation
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Workshops TWO & THREE Wrap
We had a great group here in New York last week for Workshops TWO & THREE at NextDesign Leadership Institute. It can be a rather mind-bending skill-building journey and everyone worked extremely hard for three full days to emerge with … Continue reading
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Tagged co-creation, design 3.0, innovation, NextD, participatory design
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Humantific at DD4D in Paris

Humantific CoFounder Elizabeth Pastor will speak on the subject of SenseMaking for ChangeMaking at the VisionPlus 13 Conference in Paris June 18-20, 2009. Being organized by the International Institute of Information Design (IIIID) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development … Continue reading
How to Think UP!

Collected over numerous years we have, in the Humantific archives, many of the early books and papers from the history of creative thinking, applied imagination, applied creativity, creative problem solving, systems thinking, human intelligence, learning styles, structure of the intellect, etc. From … Continue reading
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