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Exploring The Secret Language of Maps with Carissa Carter
Exploring The Secret Language of Maps with Carissa Carter
Carissa Carter is the Academic Director of the Stanford d.school, and a long time educator, designer, and map maker. She is the author of…
Lisa Kay Solomon
May 1
Integrating Co-designers with Lived Experience:
Integrating Co-designers with Lived Experience:
Reflections on DSS Design Education Efforts
Nadia Roumani
Apr 6
Equity Practice in Design
Equity Practice in Design
A 2021 update from the Designing for Social Systems Program
Thomas Both
Apr 5
Integrative Design: A Practice to Tackle Complex Challenges
Integrative Design: A Practice to Tackle Complex Challenges
How social sector organizations can integrate human-centered, systems-minded, strategy-aligned, and equity-driven approaches for greater…
Nadia Roumani
Mar 29
Inventing the Future challenges students to design beyond the classroom
Inventing the Future challenges students to design beyond the class...
Our students are a fundamental part of what makes the d.school, the d.school. From freshmen philosophy majors to career professionals in…
Natachi Onwuamaegbu
Mar 29
A Call for Better Futures: Lessons from The Smithsonian’s FUTURES exhibit
A Call for Better Futures: Lessons from The Smithsonian’s FUTURES e...
Last December, I visited the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building FUTURES exhibit, eager to experience what a dedicated museum exhibit on…
Lisa Kay Solomon
Jan 30
How students learned to design solutions for organizations
How students learned to design solutions for organizations
Living through the last few years has meant living through disruption after disruption, change after unwelcome change, continuously having…
Natachi Onwuamaegbu
Jan 26
I Used to Think One Way & Now I Think Another Way: A Story of Students’ Transformational Learning…
I Used to Think One Way & Now I Think Another Way: A Story of Students’ Transformational Learning…
by Maureen Carroll & Tessa Tzeitel Forshaw
Maureen Carroll
Nov 1, 2021
Becoming Good Ancestors: The Urgency of Long-Term Thinking
Becoming Good Ancestors: The Urgency of Long-Term Thinking
As a Designer and Futurist in Residence at the d.school, part of my role is to bring in new perspectives to our home team to spark new…
Lisa Kay Solomon
Oct 17, 2021
Have Lots of Ideas
Have Lots of Ideas
Linus Pauling, the only person in history to win two individual Nobel Prizes, succinctly describes the essence of productive creativity…
Jeremy Utley
Sep 15, 2021
Get Scientific
Get Scientific
Entrepreneurial endeavors are fraught with uncertainty and risk. Being rigorous is the best way to resolve that uncertainty.
Jeremy Utley
Sep 13, 2021
Judge Experiments Before Ideas
Judge Experiments Before Ideas
Thankfully, the team realized they had made a classic blunder. And instead of killing a really good idea, they revised their experiment.
Jeremy Utley
Sep 8, 2021
Dissent
Dissent
Aristotle said of his revered teacher and mentor, “Plato is my friend, but truth is my greater friend.” Isaac Newton, borrowing in order to…
Jeremy Utley
Sep 8, 2021
Recombine Existing Parts
Recombine Existing Parts
“Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new’? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.”…
Jeremy Utley
Sep 7, 2021
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