Great Daring Prodigious Raccoon and Other Summer Delights
From a new book, to more podcast episodes and articles, this is a snapshot of what Foossa has been up to for the last few months.
From a new book, to more podcast episodes and articles, this is a snapshot of what Foossa has been up to for the last few months.
Like us, you have probably received a whole bunch of GDPR-compliance updates over the last few weeks. Our terms and conditions haven’t changed. Foossa remains as committed as ever to transparency, data protections and the rights of consumers and citizens. But we are happy to see consumer protections finally getting implemented on the internet.
What are your thoughts on the GDPR (either the European data privacy regulation or the Great Daring Prodigious Raccoon that scaled a skyscraper in Minnesota last month)?
Lee-Sean will be in Nairobi and Paris this August, and David will be in the Boston-area in the fall. We would love to meet up! And as always, we would love to host you for a coffee (or beer) at our New York office, so drop us a line and swing on by.
Connect with us on Facebook or Twitter to continue the conversation there.
Josie Lehrer on the Men’s Story Project
How can storytelling help foster healthy masculinity in a time of #MeToo and Time’s Up? How can social learning help us examine and challenge gender norms to promote health, peace, and justice?
In this episode of FoossaPod, Lee-Sean Huang interviews Dr. Josie Lehrer of the Men’s Story Project, a movement building project for healthy masculinity. The project uses the power of storytelling and social learning to promote community, health, and peace-building.
Design Thinking is BS, And We Should Promote It Anyway
Design Thinking is indeed a buzzword, and it’s also a useful starting point for deeper understanding. This episode is the audio version of an article about Design Thinking that Lee-Sean originally published here on Medium and LinkedIn.
Social Innovation Demystified
Written by our friends and long-time collaborators Jeff Leitner and Andrew Benedict-Nelson, and designed by the Foossa team, See Think Solve is a simple guide to difficult problems.
Originally developed for the PhD program in social work at the University of Southern California, it is written in an easy-to-read, jargon-free style for anyone interested in better understanding human behavior and how to design products, services, and programs that shift collective norms and culture. The ideas in the book have really shaped our consulting and teaching practice.
You can purchase your own copy for Kindle or paperback here and also check out the FoossaPod episode about the book here.
Here’s a snippet of our podcast interview with co-author Andrew Benedict-Nelson:
I believe that the social, social norms, human behavior, is a gigantic missing element in almost everything that we’re doing.
Whether it is a corporate design project, whether it’s a government policy, whether it’s an awareness campaign, I think that we’re relying on a really limited set of tools, that were basically just designed to move individual widgets.
And I think that if we look at group behavior, if we look at social behavior, we can achieve a lot of the things that we haven’t been able to figure out otherwise.
Meet Hasin
Meet our new team member Hasin Ahmed, who is joining Foossa as a part-time Design Strategist. Hasin is a data & design professional with a multidisciplinary academic background. He is a graduate of Pace University’s Lubin School of Business and also hold a master’s degree in International Affairs from The New School. You can learn more about Hasin’s background on Linkedin and follow his street photography work on Instagram.
Assembly at Harvard and MIT
David recently completed the Assembly fellowship program on the ethics and governance of machine learning and artificial intelligence at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab. He worked with a cohort of socially engaged technologists, social scientists, and artists to explore present and near-future issues and develop projects around these issues.
On Plush Mascots and Participation
Lee-Sean wrote a Medium article about how Japanese and Taiwanese mascots can teach us about “new power” branding, business models, and public engagement. How much do you know about Kumamon, OhBear, and Funassyi?
