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Lost Stories Applied Creativity History
In this series we are focusing on lost stories in innovation history. At Humantific we have always had great interest in the unsung milestones, forgotten stories and off the beaten path landmarks of innovation history as they tend to inform present day … Continue reading
Humantific Inspires MBA Thesis
Its always great to see graduate students inspired by Humantific. Attending the Executive MBA program at University of Reading Business School in Denmark our new best friend Sandra Greve recently completed her thesis entitled: “Towards an Understanding of How to Enhance SenseMaking … Continue reading
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Tagged After Karl Weick, Elizabeth Pastor, GK VanPatter, Sandra Greve, SenseMakers, SenseMaking, SenseMaking for ChangeMaking
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Lost Stories Information Design History
In a competitive business marketplace, not everyone wants to acknowledge that each generation tends to learn from, build on or divert from the previous generations ideas and output. We see this phenomenon clearly evident in the various streams of Visual … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Isotype, Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Edward Tufte, GK VanPatter, Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, Humantific Collection, Information Design History, Isotype Institute, Joseph Priestly, Otto Neurath, Statistical Graphics, Visual SenseMaking, Willard C. Brinton, William Playfair
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Making Sense of Industries
We love and respect the complex history of what has become the sensemaking profession today. Here are more example images from Humantific’s Isotype Institute Collection. These are from 1955. The Vienna based Isotype Institute team active in the 1920s-1950s is widely … Continue reading
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Isotype Building Bridges
We are happy to share more historical sensemaking images from Humantific’s Isotype Collection. These are from 1943. In early Isotype studio work, one can find many great examples of sensemaking acceleration techniques that are still in use today, including the … Continue reading
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Before, During & After Isotype
At Humantific, we have tremendous respect for the work of the early Social SenseMaking pioneers, among them the central figures of Isotype Institute: Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) and Marie Neurath (1898-1986). In the Humantific Collection, we have numerous … Continue reading
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The Power of Your Mind
We love and respect innovation history. In the marketplace we see some experts running around claiming to have invented everything from integrative thinking to various forms of innovation. To us such claims are nonsense. We all stand on the shoulders of … Continue reading
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Tagged After Alex Osborn, Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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How to Think UP!
In the Humantific Innovation Archives we have 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 time to time … Continue reading
Historical SenseMaking Research
Those studying the parallel universe histories of information architecture, information design, or sensemaking will know that long before Richard Saul Wurman, Edward Tufte, Karl Weik, Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz, Isotype Institute, Jacques Bertin, Fritz Kahn, or Willard Brinton there existed … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Isotype, Before Jacques Bertin, Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Edward Tufte, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, Information Design, Otto Neurath, Social SenseMaking, Visual Sense-Making, Visual Thinking, Visualization Research
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Humantific in PhD Study
We love to see others inspired by Humantific. Each year we receive many requests from graduate students and PhD students who want to interact with Humantific, ask us questions, study what we are doing. Although we are not set up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Conscious Design Movement, Conscious Design Practice as a Strategic Tool, Design Research, History of Creative Intelligence, Humantific Academy, Industrial PhD, Innovation, Inspired by Humantific, Learning Lab Denmark, Learning Lab in Denmark, PhD Students Visit Humantific, SenseMaking, Silje Kamille Friis, Studying Humantific, Transformation
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