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Tag Archives: SenseMaking
Lecture at IESE Sold Out!
Humantific CoFounder, Elizabeth Pastor presented SenseMaking for ChangeMaking at IESE’s Graduate Business School in New York City last night. Elizabeth explained how Humantific has, for more than ten years, been working closely with business leaders in many industries who are engaged … 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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Thoughts on THINK
Last week, the Humantific team took a field trip to Lincoln Center to see the THINK Exhibit. Sponsored by IBM in honor of their centennial, it showcases the tech giant’s many achievements in science, business, and everyday life, as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Innovation, Rise of SenseMaking, SenseMaking, Social Change, Social Innovation, Social SenseMaking, Social Transformation, THINK, Visualization
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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
Visualizing the U.S. Debt Problem
With the economic crisis still lingering and talk of raising the $14.3 trillion “debt ceiling” to allow the U.S. to borrow more money, it is difficult to comprehend the large sums of money the government is accountable for. While the … Continue reading
Thinking Made Visible Research
We are delighted to see so much interest in Humantific’s Integrative Thinking Research Initiative. Much to our surprise viewers of the Design Thinking Made Visible Project story have exceeded 15,000. Posted for public viewing the research outcome included these findings: … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, Clarity not Simplicity, CoCreation, Design Research, Design Thinking, Design Thinking Made Visible, History of Creative Intelligence, Innovation, Innovation Process Research, Integrative Thinking Research, NextD Geographies, ReRethinking Design, ReReThinking Design Education, SenseMaking, Thinking Research, Transformation, Whole Brain Information Fields
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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, London, Masters of Innovation, NextD Geographies, SenseMaking, StrategyLab, Systems Thinking, Teaching CoCreation Now, Transformation, Upstream Skills, Upstream Thinking, Upstream Value Add
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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, History of Creative Intelligence, Innovation, NextD Geographies, SenseMaking, Transformation
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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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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, 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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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
Introducing VisBits!
The Humantific | UnderstandingLab team is introducing a new weekly feature on our blog called VisBits — concise, bite-size infographics and concept models highlighting astonishing facts about the U.S. Why VisBits, you ask? With growing interest in the state of … 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, 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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