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Tag Archives: GK VanPatter
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
Posted in Inspiration
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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Humantific in Finland
Humantific CoFounders Elizabeth Pastor and GK VanPatter will be back in sunny Helsinki Monday, Tuesday, February 6-7 giving a series of talks and workshop sessions for our friends at Aalto University School of Economics / Creative Industries Finland. Space is limited. For … Continue reading
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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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Business Design Thinking, Clarity not Simplicity, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Information Design, Isotype, Isotype / Vienna Method, Isotype Charts, Isotype Institute, Isotype Revisited, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, Pictorial Statistics, Rise of SenseMaking, SenseMaking, The Significance of Isotype, Transformer Role, Understanding Isotype
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Consultants Kill Innovation? Huh?
We could not help but notice the peculiar article in Fast Company’s online Design section posted on January 9, written by Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen provocatively titled: Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation? In the spirit of keeping things simple … Continue reading
Occupy Reimagining Design
Humantific CoFounder, GK VanPatter was recently interviewed by Wycliffe Radum of Aalto University Design Factory in Finland. Wycliffe Radum: In the first CEB [Future of Innovation] conference in Helsinki, in September 2009, you challenged Aalto University’s designers to reach into the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aalto Design Factory, Aalto University, Beyond Product Design, Beyond Service Design, Clarity not Simplicity, CoCreation Now, Design 3.0, Design 4.0, Emergent Phenomena, GK VanPatter, Humantific Academy, Masters of Innovation, NextD Geographies, NYC Graduate Design Schools, Reimagining Design, Rethinking Design Practice
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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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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Clarity not Simplicity, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Isotype, Isotype / Vienna Method, Isotype Revisited, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, The Significance of Isotype, Understanding Isotype, Vienna Method
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Teaching Co-Creation Now
Continuing its ReReThinking Design series, NextDesign Leadership Institute has published a new virtual book: “Teaching Co-Creation Now” which makes transparent several long-brewing but seldom-talked-about graduate design education challenges. Like most NextD material, this story reflects considerable synthesis after years of … Continue reading
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Tagged After Karl Weick, After Neurath, Before Richard Wurman, Beyond Service Design, Beyond Storming & Gaming, CoCreation, Conscious CoCreation, Design Education, GK VanPatter, Humantific Academy, Leadership, Masters of Innovation, NextD, NextD Geographies, ReRethinking Design, ReReThinking Design Education
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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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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Clarity not Simplicity, Diagraming, From Hieroglyphics to Isotype, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Information Design History, International Picture Language System, Isotype, Isotype Institute, Isotype Revisited, Making Sense, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, Pictorial Charts, Pictorial Statistics, Pictures Unite, SenseMaker Dialogs, Statisical Visualizations, The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design, The Significance of Isotype, Understanding Isotype, Vienna Method, VisThink, Visual Explanations, Visualizing Data, Words Divide
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ReThinking Self-Organizing Innovation
Humantifc CoFounder GK VanPatter rerethinks the subject of self-organizing innovation. Having problems with getting innovation going on your cross-disciplinary team? Wasting alot of time and energy? Frustraion levels rising? Are you experiencing the High-High-Low Effect? We love self-organizing initiatives and … Continue reading
OPEN Innovation Consortium
Humantific launched OPEN Innovation Consortium in 2009 in collaboration with other stakeholders, experts and organizations. Seeing ever-increasing interest in the marketplace in OPEN source innovation systems, the consortium team is presently conducting research on the subject of OPEN innovation including … Continue reading
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Tagged Conscious CoCreation, Elizabeth Pastor, GK VanPatter, NextDesign Research, ReThinking OPEN Innovation
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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, SenseMaking, Social Change, Social Innovation, Social Transformation, Transformation
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Humantific in Finland
Humantific CoFounder GK VanPatter will be giving several presentations on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking and working with faculty members at Savonia University of Applied Sciences and Kuopio Academy of Design in Finland Sept 14, 15, 16. To learn more about the PALMU UnConference at … Continue reading
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Tagged After Unconferences, Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, Design Thinking, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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Humantific at Copenhagen B School
In Denmark last week CoFounder GK VanPatter met with a group of faculty members at the Copenhagen Business School to discuss Design Thinking, Integrative Thinking, Design Futures, SenseMaking and ChangeMaking. Humantific is in collaborative conversations with a forward thinking faculty … Continue reading
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Tagged Design Thinking, GK VanPatter, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research
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NextD Geographies Skill-to-Scale
Presented by NextD CoFounders GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor at numerous conferences around the world, the NextDesign Geographies continues to generate interest and considerable thoughtful dialogue on many blogs and discussion lists. One of its central ideas, not always popular in … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Storming & Gaming, Conscious CoCreation, Design is an Amorphic Time Warp, Design Thinking, Elizabeth Pastor, GK VanPatter, NextD, NextD Geographies, Skill to Scale, Wicked Problems
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Humantific in Århus Denmark
Humantific Co-Founder GK VanPatter will give a keynote talk on Design Futures and the Rise of Visual SenseMaking at the Danish Designers Annual Conference / General Assembly in Århus, Denmark on June 9th. The conference is being organized by the Danish … Continue reading
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Tagged Danish Design, Design in the 21st Century, Design Thinking, GK VanPatter, ReThinking Design Thinking
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