Beginning at 11:30 a.m. EST today (5:30 p.m. Central European Time), TedxChange will be Webcast live from Berlin, Germany. TEDxChange is a partnership between TED.com and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The theme of the two hour event is "The Big Picture" ...
At Dowser, we were excited to recently reconnect with the leadership team of Design Impact at the end of their pilot year launching an innovative social enterprise across India. Per the name, Design Impact addresses social problems using the toolkits of design in ...
Once upon a time, to be a designer meant that you made things—chairs, for example—and, in some cases, that you were focused on the needs of the wealthy, who could afford stylish or well-made objects. In recent years, the field of design has ...
We all remember times when school felt completely useless and abstract – for me, it was in chemistry class, a subject I thought would never apply to my life or career. In this tough employment climate, debate about how to educate with dwindling ...
Bill Moggridge has pioneered evolutions in design by responding to the quick global transformations in communications technology. He founded the design and business consulting firm IDEO, which is piloting an IDEO.org fellowship this year. And his current work has him directing the Cooper-Hewitt ...
The concept of “wicked problems” refers to issues that are considered near impossible to solve because of complex interdependencies within a system; only discrete and context-specific interventions can be applied to wicked problems. Examples: climate change, the U.S. health care system, and the ...
The "Designing Social Change" series examines the rapidly-growing movement to apply design approaches to social problems. Imagine that you and your family have just moved to an informal settlement on the outskirts of a major city – Buenos Aires, or Jakarta – with ...
When most people think of design, often the first images that come to mind are of suspension bridges, urban landscapes, or well-formed living room furniture pieces. But “design” has become a broad-sweeping movement to use a process of ethnographic research and collaborative iteration ...
Bringing an idea to life is a little like launching a rocket: the moment is fueled by many patient hours spent studying, researching, planning, searching for resources, building a team, and refining key details. But in entrepreneurship, unlike rocket science, you don’t need ...
Good design can innovate solutions to problems we weren’t even aware of and create products that make everyday life easier. Ramsey Ford, a co-founder of Design Impact, spoke to Dowser about the myriad possibilities in harnessing the power of effective design in development ...