Category Challenges
Howard Rheingold and Mark Earls on mass collaboration
The French and their mobiles
Ferrari on the importance of understanding users
“The user as an unconscious sensor of the environment” was the title of Antonio Calvosa’s (Ferrari S.p.A.) keynote speech today at the Ubicomp conference in Innsbruck, Austria. Abstract: This talk adheres to the vision that in order to bring key…
Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life
Background report on Danish “Concept Design” study
BT’s Crossing the Divide project
A virtual think tank on regional innovation in Belgium
Adaptive Path’s Rachel Hinman in conversation with Mark Jones, IDEO about service design
Bob Jacobson investigating the Danish design and innovation push
Josephine Green of Philips on the need for social innovation
Low technologies, high aims
The New York Times reports on how M.I.T. has lately turned its attention toward concrete thinking to improve the lives of the poor” “M.I.T. has nurtured dozens of Nobel Prize winners in cerebral realms like astrophysics, economics and genetics. But…
Living Tomorrow
“Concept Design”, a new study from Denmark
INDEX: 2007 magazine and website on user-centered design and innovation
User-centered Design & Innovation is the sub-theme of INDEX: 2007, a series of events currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme is thoroughly examined during the Copenhagen Prelude Conference, the INDEX:|Aiga Aspen Design Summit and INDEX: SUMMER CAMP, as…
Destinations straight from internet to your Mercedes
Copenhagen conference about creativity, innovation and co-creation
Co-creation is on the agenda when Copenhagen will be the centre of the world’s prominent specialists within creativity and innovation, reports Copenhagen Capacity. The 10th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, ECCI X is to convene on 14-17 October 2007.…
BBC World Service interviews MIT professor Eric Von Hippel on innovation
In an extended interview, Peter Day of BBC World Service’s Global Business programme talks to Professor Eric Von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology about his revolutionary thinking and what calls the “democratisation…
Bruce Sterling writes ‘dispatches from the hyperlocal future’ for Wired Magazine
Design for the other 90% controversy
Design for the Other 90%, the much lauded exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York on how design can address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor and marginalised, has been severely criticised by…