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Elizabeth Pastor at Hub / Madrid
Elizabeth Pastor visits with friends at The Hub Madrid for spontaneous social innovation. A great place that brings entrepreneurs and social innovators, right next to the great CaixaForum in Paseo del Prado. Thanks Felix for inviting us! http://madrid.the-hub.net/
Markets for Giving Workshop
Humantific has been working with Liquidnet for Good and Global Giving to codesign a three day Markets for Giving strategic cocreation workshop that was codelivered June 23-25 at Liquidnet corporate headquarters in New York. Multinational workshop participants included thought leaders from numerous … Continue reading
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Tagged Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ChangeMaking, Charity Navigator, CoCreation, Conexion Columbia, Design Research, Donors Choose, Global Giving, Help Argentina, Hewlett Foundation, History of Creative Intelligence, Hope Consulting, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, Jumo, Keystone Accountability, Liquidnet for Good, Markets for Giving, Mission Fish, Net4kids, Network for Good, philanthropic eco system, Philanthropy, Root Cause, Sea Change Capital Partners, SenseMaking, Social Actions, Social Change, Social Innovation, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation, Upstream Framing
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Humantific at Icograda Madrid
Humantific CoFounder Elizabeth Pastor will be speaking on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking at Icograda’s Straight to Business Conference in Madrid, June 24-25. “Straight to Business: Icograda Design Week in Madrid 2010 will bring together designers, business leaders, key regional and international … Continue reading
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Tagged Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, Elizabeth Pastor, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, NextDesign Thinking, ReThinking Design Thinking, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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Making Sense of Complexity
Appearing today in the New York Times: Making Sense of Complexity “Look at the military’s PowerPoint slide of the Afghanistan war, a labyrinth of cross-thatching lines and arrows swirling around words like INSURGENTS and COALITION CAPACITY & PRIORITIES. “When we … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, History of Creative Intelligence, Innovation, Rise of SenseMaking, SenseMaking, Transformation
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Design Thinking Made Visible Project
For those interested in the subjects of Integrative Thinking, Organizational Transformation, Reinvention of Design, Constructing Inclusion, Thinking Diversity, Design 3.0, 4.0, Visual SenseMaking, Strategic CoCreation, Design Thinking, Innovation Harmonics: Humantific has published the Design Thinking Made Visible Project as part of our … Continue reading
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New York UnConference
GK VanPatter pitched in to help with group navigation at the exploratory Design Thinking UnConference in New York last friday. Just another afternoon in Complexity Navigation Land.
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Tagged After Unconferences, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, Design Thinking, History of Creative Intelligence, Innovation, Leadership, Meta CoCreation, Parsons, SenseMaking, Social Networking, Strategy Now, Transformation
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Humantific on Finnish Television
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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Tagged Aalto University, Beyond Service Design, CEB (Creative Economy & Beyond) Conference, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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SenseMaker Dialogs 1 Wraps
The SenseMaker Dialogs series kicked off on August 13, 2009 at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. SenseMaker Dialogs is a new speaker series focused on the rapidly changing hybrid activity of SenseMaking in the 21st century. Elizabeth Pastor, … Continue reading
Visualization the Next Design Frontier
Fast Company signals that it is catching on to a significant change wave with its recent post “Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design?” however the realm of Visual SenseMaking has already become much broader than making sense of information. … Continue reading
Humantific at IDSA in Miami
Humantific CoFounder GK VanPatter will give a keynote talk on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking at the 2009 IDSA International Conference upcoming in Miami on September 23-26. About the conference: “Our global economy is going through dramatic change. Design can be proactive … Continue reading
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Tagged Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Futures, Design Research, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, IDSA (Industrial Designers Society America), Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, ReRethinking Design, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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The Power of Your Mind
In 1952, Alex Osborn wrote: “Exercise your imagination — the more creative you become, the more you will get out of life.” With so much hype around innovation and creativity today, we find it useful to be aware at a … Continue reading
Visual SenseMaking Workshop Wraps
Humantific’s Visual SenseMaking Workshop wrapped up on Saturday at Pratt Institute in New York. Taught by CoFounder Elizabeth Pastor the workshop focused on Visual SenseMaking in the context of organizations. An enthusiastic group that included numerous graduates of NextD innovation … Continue reading
Innovation Lab / Ten Years After!
Ten years ago Humantific CoFounders Elizabeth Pastor and Garry VanPatter founded Scient’s Innovation Acceleration Lab. They designed and built labs in New York and San Francisco, created Scient’s inclusive innovation strategy, designed the learning programs, built a teaching team and … Continue reading
Design 4.0 Rocks the House
Continuing NextD’s provocative ReRethinking Design message CoFounder, GK VanPatter rocked the house at the EXPOSED 09 Conference in Phoenix last week presenting Design 4.0 / Social Transformation Design for the first time. Utilizing the 2009 NextD Complexity Scale of Design … Continue reading
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
