The landscape of today’s problems is rapidly changing. While we’ve made significant progress, many existing social challenges continue to grow in magnitude and complexity, and each year new problems arise. That dramatic change will not be driven by traditional thinking. Designing solutions for today’s social problems requires an entrepreneurial approach, a mindset that embodies the characteristics of bold thinkers with...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TNgiGhBcFQ Social Change Needs Our Soul! We are all leaders. If we want to be a leader in the area of social change, we need to appreciate that learning leadership skills alone will not be enough to make a positive impact. If you want to be a leader of change that has a positive social impact, pause and put the books down,...
Welcome on board Heroes behind the Shield! The project - Faceshield Nova Friburgo - was developed by professors of UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and UERJ (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) in Nova Friburgo along side with Persona 3D company, in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The chief researcher of the project Edgard Poiate (Professor at UERJ/IPRJ) tells: « In the...
2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife! As in many other countries, people have been applauding to demonstrate their respect for medical staff. Nurses should not be “Heroes, just for one day”. Nurses are suddenly called heroes, though their work has always been meaningful and saved lives, not just during the COVID-19 crisis. Even before the COVID-19...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgyBIBXqUd4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1iCEokYzCYFlVe3FCzVAUAR0pUv1niKcgYHI0epuKYmG_ihhJdH84V8ds The power of words should never be underestimated. Words have power and deeply influence our lives. They seep into our consciousness and influence our emotions and our behaviour. They shape how we see the world. Words consist of vibration and sound. It is these vibrations that create the very reality that surrounds us. Words are the creator; the creator of...
Cette interview du journaliste Stéphane Aubouard met en lumière des concepts innovants — Transition Design, approches Holonomiques, Action Ecosystémique, Hybridation culturelle, ou Win3 — à utiliser par les entrepreneurs, les politiques et tous les porteurs de projets œuvrant en faveur d’une transition, d’une évolution du monde. « Nous défendons un entrepreneuriat politique, engagé et citoyen » Pour Laura Petrache et Yannick Le...
Much has been written about the increasingly urgent need for radical approaches to business, leadership, social change, and economics. The challenge now is how to encourage those in business and beyond to embrace an ecological perspective where intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions of complex systems are understood. One of the most important pillars within the Holonomics approach is a concept called ’the...
Word of the day: Skeuomorphism. This is a term that will be familiar to designers. Skeuomorph /ˈskjuːə(ʊ)mɔːf/ noun: skeuomorph; plural noun: skeuomorphs an object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artefact made from another material.an element of a graphical user interface which mimics a physical object Skeuomorphs are used in design for a number of reasons, sometimes they can be...
“We look at the present through a rearview mirror. We march backwards into the future.”Through technological advancements, demographic change, internet convergence, and the growing power of social networking and social collaboration, the next 20 years will drive us to apply the opportunities to lead a more meaningful life. Innovating to Zero is a radical future concept where the focus and development...
Today we invite you to shape the future! Visions for transitions to sustainable societies are needed, based upon the reconception of entire life-styles that are human scale, place-based, but globally connected in their exchange of technology, cuture and information. These visions are based upon communities that are in symbiotic relationships to the ecosystems within which they are embedded. Transition Design...