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Festival Of Ideas in New York!
There are lots of interesting speakers and initiatives going on during the Festival Of Ideas For The New City in NY, May 4-8. Check out the program!
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Remaking Meaning?
Thoughts on AIGA’s One Day For Design Since a lot of what we do here at Humantific is upstream strategy cocreation with organizations as part of change making initiatives, we were somewhat puzzled to see how AIGA (formerly American Institute … Continue reading
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Tagged 1D4D (AIGA's 1 Day for Design), AIGA, Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, Clarity not Simplicity, CoCreation, Collaboration, Design Research, Future of Design, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, NextD Geographies, ReRethinking Design, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Strategy Now, Transformation
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Eye Mag’s Blind Spot
With their Winter 2010 issue, Eye Magazine finally joins the conversation on the role of information design in the 21st century. Rather than investigate areas largely neglected by the design press (ie, the paradigm shifts underway in the field, new … Continue reading
VisBit 4: Student Debt Has Increased
VisBit 4: Student debt has increased over the past decade. Source: Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps. The Measure of America 2010-2011. New York: The New York University Press, 2010. See other VisBits here: VisBit 3 VisBit 2 VisBit 1
Photos of Japan Before and After
The New York Times has posted a stunning series of comparative Yesterday & Today satellite images of Japan to help explain the devastation caused by last weeks earthquake and tsunami.
Stick Figure Adventures
On Huffington Post: The enduring and very versatile stick figure, so important in visual sensemaking! Huffington Post | 7 Worst Stick Figure Injuries by Doug Lansky
Innovation History Collection
A recent addition to Humantific’s ever growing Innovation History Archive: Alex Osborn’s pioneering 1953 book Applied Creativity made into a two record set in 1964. A very rare find indeed! Check out that adjustable wrench! We know you are jealous … Continue reading
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Architecture of Transformation?
We enjoyed reading the January 2011 issue of Architect magazine (“The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects”) entitled What’s Next?: Architecture in an age of Transformation. We recognized that many of the challenges raised in the feature article have … Continue reading
Social SenseMaking for Social Innovation
Now for some good news: Interest continues to rise in the role the Social SenseMaking is playing in Social ChangeMaking! If you are interested in this subject see this: Elizabeth Pastor, Robert Horn, Hans Rosling, Nic Marks, Seth Flaxman, Christopher … Continue reading
VisBit 3: Wealth of Top 1% Rose
VisBit 3: The wealth of the top 1% of households rose, on average, 103% from 1983 to 2007. Source: Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps. The Measure of America 2010-2011. New York: The New York University Press, 2010.
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VisBit 2: Wealth of Poorest 40% Declined
VisBit 2: The poorest 40% of households experienced a 63% decline in wealth from 1983 to 2007. Source: Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps. The Measure of America 2010-2011. New York: The New York University Press, 2010.
Social Networking Origins
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones on the origins of social networking: “People that have been to see last year’s blockbuster The Social Network, could be forgiven for thinking that the rise of sites like Facebook started just a few years ago. … Continue reading
Introducing VisBits!
The Humantific | UnderstandingLab team is introducing a new weekly feature on our blog called VisBits — concise, bite-size infographics and concept models highlighting astonishing facts about the U.S. Why VisBits, you ask? With growing interest in the state of … Continue reading
Data Visualization
This is what happens when display precedes data analysis! Cartoon by Mark Anderson, www.andertoons.com
Where Good Ideas Come From
People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascination tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s … Continue reading
