Monthly Archives: September 2009

Humantific in Melbourne

Posted on September 30, 2009 by admin

Humantific Co-Founders, Elizabeth Pastor and GK VanPatter have been invited to attend the ReThinking Design Education Conference being organized by Dr Ken Friedman, Dean of the School of Design at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia on November 21-22. … Continue reading →

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Humantific on Radio Finland

Posted on September 30, 2009 by admin

Humantific CoFounder, Garry K. VanPatter was interviewed at the Creative Economy & Beyond Conference in Helsinki by Barbro Björkfelt, journalist, documentary film maker for YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company. At the conference VanPatter introduced the NextD SenseMaking Framework of Design 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 … Continue reading →

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Humantific on Finnish Television

Posted on September 15, 2009 by admin

Humantific CoFounder, Garry K. VanPatter appeared on Finnish television after giving his keynote talk on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking at the very first Creative Economy & Beyond Conference in Helsinki last week. VanPatter spoke of the changing role of design in organizational … Continue reading →

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Is Happiness Contagious?

Posted on September 14, 2009 by admin

In the September issue of Wired: “Nicholas Christakis from Harvard and James Fowler at UC San Diego found that happy people have happy friends (and unhappy people, unhappy friends). Examining smiles in Facebook portraits, they found the same pattern: Even … Continue reading →

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