Category Educational services
Stanford Business School launches executive course in customer-focused innovation
Learning people-driven innovation at the 180º Academy
The website of the Danish 180º Academy, that I wrote about earlier, is now live. The organisers “believe in people-driven innovation, enabling [their] students to understand innovation from the point of view of everyday people. Accepting this fact, 180°academy turns…
Participatory media and the pedagogy of civic participation
Whitepaper: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture
We Are Smarter Than Me
MacArthur launches $50 million digital media and learning initiative
More on IDEO: now redesigning a law school
Interview with Stanford design school director
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
Denmark’s largest companies launch user-driven innovation academy
Futurelab on learning, social software and games
Fab Labs deliver innovative solutions to local needs [Christian Science Monitor]
Fab Labs are different than the myriad other nonprofit programs working to introduce technology to disadvantaged communities. The MIT professors who came up with the Fab Lab concept believed that rural villagers in India, sheep herders in Norway, and impoverished…
Picking the brains of the Institute of Design [Usability News]
Belgian experience design lab getting off the ground
One of the exciting initiaves within the Belgian C-Mine project is a new Experience Design Lab within the Media & Design Academy, a platform with the double function of integrating and transforming the various disciplines of the academy, and enabling…
The Principles of Play [Metropolis Magazine]
Where to study experience design?
Experience design has become a hot industry theme. Companies are looking to hire experience designers. New consultancies devoted to experience design are being founded nearly every day. Major industry players like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips are increasingly putting the…
ThinkCycle: open collaborative design
ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative, developed and operated by a group of doctoral students at the MIT Media Laboratory, engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture…