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Tag Archives: GK VanPatter
1D4D 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, GK VanPatter, 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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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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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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SenseMaking for ChangeMaking on ISSUU
Humantific CoFounder Elizabeth Pastor presented SenseMaking for ChangeMaking at Icograda’s Straight to Business Conference in Madrid, June 24-25, 2010. Inside the presentation Elizabeth explains how Humantific has been working in the realm of enabling Integrated Thinking for Innovation in large … Continue reading
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Tagged Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, Beyond Storming & Gaming, ChangeMaking, Clarity not Simplicity, CoCreation, Conscious CoCreation, Data Visualization Beyond, Design Research, Elizabeth Pastor, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, Janet Getto, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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GK VanPatter 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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GK VanPatter at Åarhus School of Architecture
Humantific Co-Founder GK VanPatter will give two talks in Denmark in June on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking. On June 9th he will present at the Danish Designers Annual Conference General Assembly at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Åarhus. On June 10th he … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Design, Design Thinking Made Visible, GK VanPatter, Integrative Thinking Research, NextDesign Thinking
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Inspired by Skill-to-Scale
We were delighted to see Noah Raford being inspired by Peter Jones being inspired by NextDesign Geographies…:-) Created by GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor, NextD Geographies has been presented at numerous conferences around the world. It is a community focused … Continue reading
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, Data Visualization Beyond, Design in the 21st Century, Design Thinking, GK VanPatter, ReThinking Design Thinking, Visual SenseMaking
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Wurman Speaks at SenseMaker Dialogs
Pioneering SenseMaker, Richard Saul Wurman will speak at SenseMaker Dialogs in New York on February 16, 2010! Official online registration will open soon. Sponsors: Humantific & Parsons, School of Design Strategies. Moderator: Elizabeth Pastor. Location: Parsons, The New School for … Continue reading
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Tagged GK VanPatter, Richard Saul Wurman, Rise of SenseMaking, Understanding
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GK VanPatter at Swinburne University
Now viewable in virtual book form: The presentation made by GK VanPatter on November 22, 2009 at the Swinburne Design Thinking Conference in Melbourne, Australia and on November 25 at Swinburne University School of Design. Learn more about Humantific SenseMaking/ChangeMaking initiatives here: … Continue reading
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Tagged Design 3.0, Design 4.0, Design Thinking, GK VanPatter, NextDesign Thinking, ReRethinking Design, Swinburne University
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The Rise of Visual SenseMaking
This diagram is utilized in several public workshops and keynote talks that extends ten years of Humantifc work. CoFounders Elizabeth Pastor and GK VanPatter connect the dots and share views into the relationship between rising complexity of human challenges and … Continue reading
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Tagged Design is an Amorphic Time Warp, Elizabeth Pastor, GK VanPatter, Humantific Speaks, SenseMaking
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GK VanPatter at Malmö University
Humantific Co-Founder, GK VanPatter will give a free open to the public talk on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking in Malmö, Sweden on November 12, as part of a new speaker series being organized by the MEDEA Societal Entrepreneurship Program at Malmö … Continue reading
GK VanPatter at Swinburne University
Humantific Co-Founder, GK VanPatter will attend the ReThinking Design Education Conference being organized by Dr Ken Friedman, Dean of the School of Design at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia on November 21-22. Sixty thought leaders have been invited … Continue reading
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Tagged Design 3.0, Design 4.0, GK VanPatter, NextDesign Thinking, ReRethinking Design, Swinburne University
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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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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
