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Humantific Teaches in Madrid
Humantific Teaches in Madrid: IED’s Masters of Design and Innovation Program Elizabeth Pastor, partner and co-founder of Humantific, taught at the European Institute of Design Madrid this summer. She held a one week workshop on innovation and visual sensemaking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Storming & Gaming, Clarity not Simplicity, Elizabeth Pastor, Humantific Academy, IED (European Institute of Design), Innovation, Madrid, Masters of Innovation, NextD Geographies, SenseMaking, Systems Thinking, Visible Futures, Visual SenseMaking, Visual Thinking, Whole Brain Information Fields
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SenseMaker Dialogs 3: YES WE KAHN!
The larger than expected turnout for Thilo von Debschitz’s presentation on Fritz Kahn at SenseMaker Dialogs last night had us scrambling to find more chairs! Thilo gave an amazing presentation describing how a series of coincidences and accidental discoveries sent … Continue reading
Get Tickets to SenseMaker Dialogs 3!
Fritz Kahn: Making Sense of the Human Body Space is Limited! September 21, 2011 7:00pm at Pratt Institute (Manhattan) We are pleased to have Thilo von Debschitz from Germany in our next SenseMaker Dialogs to speak on Fritz Kahn. Born … Continue reading
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NextD Workshops: That’s a Wrap!
Our congratulations goes out to all attendees of this year’s NextD WorkshopONE, TWO & THREE. Participants from around the globe (6 countries in total) came together for 4 days of intensive facilitation training in New York City. It was an … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarity not Simplicity, CoCreation Leadership, Elizabeth Pastor, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Skill-Building, Janet Getto, NextD Geographies, NextDesign Leadership, ReRethinking Design, ReReThinking Design Education, Teaching CoCreation Now, WorkshopONE Reinvented
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New Visions, New Leaders
Humantific CoFounder Elizabeth Pastor is teaching this week in the Masters of Design and Innovation Program at IED in Madrid.
Humantific at the BBC
Bringing Complexity Navigation Skills to the BBC in London Humantific is working with the BBC bringing Complexity Navigation Skills to their User Experience & Design senior leadership team this summer and fall seasons. Humantific’s Janet Getto and Elizabeth Pastor spent … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Design 2.0, Beyond Service Design, Beyond Storming & Gaming, Beyond UX, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, History of Creative Intelligence, Humantific Academy, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, Janet Getto, London, Masters of Innovation, Meta CoCreation, NextD Geographies, SenseMaking, StrategyLab, Systems Thinking, Teaching CoCreation Now, Transformation, Upstream Skills, Upstream Thinking, Upstream Value Add, WorkshopONE Reinvented
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NextD Workshops Registration Open!
New York City: July 26–29, 2011 (9am-6pm) Register on nextd.eventbrite.com. WorkshopONE: Exploring cross-disciplinary innovation now! WorkshopTWO: Understanding cross-disciplinary innovation now! WorkshopTHREE: Leading cross-disciplinary innovation now! ARE YOU READY? Are you ready to cut through all the baloney and hype around … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Service Design, Beyond Storming & Gaming, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Conscious CoCreation, Design Research, Elizabeth Pastor, History of Creative Intelligence, Innovation, Janet Getto, NextD Geographies, SenseMaking, Transformation
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WONE, TWO & THREE Coming Soon!
We have received many requests for NextD Workshops ONE, TWO & THREE and they are coming at the end of July! WorkshopONE: Exploring the Language of Innovation! 1 day workshop WorkshopONE is both a mind awakening experience as well as … Continue reading
A Portrait of California 2011 Kicks Off!
The week long launch for A Portrait of California 2011 was kicked off today in Sacramento. Being the first-ever human development report focused on California, it has already attracted considerable attention in the press including Huffington Post and The Business … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarity not Simplicity, Measure of America Rocks, Social SenseMaking
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A Portrait of California Launching Soon
Humantific has partnered with authors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis once again to produce the next chapter in the Measure of America Series: A Portrait of California. This is the first special report follow-up to The Measure of America: American … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Hill, Elizabeth Pastor, Human Development Report, Measure of America Rocks, Social SenseMaking, Valentina Miosuro
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NextDesign Leadership Network
As part of spring cleaning, NextDesign Leadership Institute has converted the Transforming Transformation discussion list on LinkedIn since 2007, to NextDesign Leadership Network. The focus of the open discussion list will remain on NextD’s original root subject: next design leadership. … Continue reading
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Tagged Design Thinking, NextD Geographies, ReRethinking Design, Transformation
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Measure of America Featured on NPR
Long time Humantific collaborator Sarah Burd-Sharps coauthor of The Measure of America 2010-2011 was interviewed by Carrie Feibel last week on NPR. Sarah talks about measuring human happiness, etc. “…in Texas, 1 in 5 adults does not have a high … Continue reading
NextD Archive Launches
NextDesign Leadership Institute founded by GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor has launched its Archive online. More than 30 NextD Journal conversations are being posted. See the conversations that informed the creation of numerous NextD sensemaking frameworks 2002-20010 including NextDesign EcoSystem … Continue reading
GK VanPatter at Aalto University
Humantific CoFounder GK VanPatter will give a talk on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking at Aalto University Design Factory in Helsinki Finland, next week, Wednesday November 24. For more information contact: Wycliffe Raduma wycliffe.raduma (at) tkk.fi
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Tagged Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, Clarity not Simplicity, CoCreation, Conscious CoCreation, Design Research, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, Innovation, Masters of Innovation, Meta CoCreation, SenseMaking, Social Change, Social Innovation, Social Transformation, Transformation
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Mapping Markets for Good
Humantific and Liquidnet partnered to create Making Sense of Markets for Good which was presented and was on display at the SOCAP10 Conference in San Francisco, October 4–6. Markets for Good was designed to help explain the primary challenges and opportunities … Continue reading
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