Education

Synectics & Pughsion™

Synec­tics Class Exer­cise As I’m fin­ish­ing up with an online Finan­cial Man­age­ment class that is all num­bers, I was just think­ing how I’d rather be facil­i­tat­ing cre­ative think­ing right now. Then I start­ed think­ing back about a pre­sen­ta­tion my for­mer class­mate Rebec­ca Mahl and I did on the prob­lem solv­ing method­ol­o­gy synec­tics, as well as […]

Facilitating Creative Thinking

Facil­i­tat­ing the Cre­ation and Eval­u­a­tion of Video Projects in Edu­ca­tion Back­ground We live in a media sat­u­rat­ed soci­ety where media affects the way that we inter­act with and under­stand the world around us. While the con­cept of media lit­er­a­cy has been around since the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry, its only in the past 10 years that […]

EcoLabs

While research­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty graph­ics for my M.A. Final Project, I came across Eco­Labs and the con­cept of eco-lit­er­a­­cy. Eco­Labs is a not for prof­it net­work of design­ers and visu­al artists who cre­ate mate­ri­als, projects and pro­grams that sup­port eco­log­i­cal lit­er­a­cy. The aim of the orga­ni­za­tion is to nur­ture whole sys­tems think­ing, fos­ter eco­log­i­cal lit­er­a­cy, and […]

Sir Ken Robinson + RSA Animate

This is a great visu­al­iza­tion of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk from my pre­vi­ous post Bring on the Learn­ing Rev­o­lu­tion!

Bring on the Learning Revolution!

I first watched this great talk by Sir Ken Robin­son a few months ago, and since then I’ve watched both this talk and his pre­vi­ous talk three times. Not only are his talks inspir­ing and thought-pro­­vok­ing, they are also very fun­ny. He is tru­ly a great speak­er.

Design Revolution Roadshow: Changing the World by Design

What began as a tour for Emi­ly Pilloton’s book, “Design Rev­o­lu­tion: 100 Prod­ucts that Empow­er Peo­ple,” end­ed up becom­ing much more. Pil­lo­ton used her 2009 Sap­pi Ideas that Mat­ter Grant to turn the book tour into a mobile exhi­bi­tion with work­shops and lec­tures geared towards inspir­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of young design­ers and pro­mot­ing the idea that design can have a pos­i­tive social impact.

Different Flavors of Design Management

A look at the dif­fer­ent “fla­vors” of design man­age­ment and how the great scope of the dis­ci­pline affects how it is both per­ceived and taught.