Written by on date 09 February 2012 in General News , Publications .
Current MDM student Jose Mello's article "Service Design Creates Breakthrough Cultural Change in the Brazilian Financial Market" was published in the January 2012 issue of Touchpoint, the Journal of Service Design. The article focuses on building an innovation culture. His team's approach created scores of advocates of the innovation process across the organization, sparking a whole new mindset.
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
Lawrence Abrahamson and Marco Cimatti published "Writing on the Wall: Facilitating Organisational Change Through Model Co-Creation" in The Journal of Service Design. The piece details their process for helping Chicago Park District’s Judd Goldman Sailing Program re-envision their service offering through chalk talks and inviting stakeholders into the co-creation of an experience model.
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
Patrick Whitney, Dean of the Institute of Design, wrote a chapter entitled "Learning in the Creative Economy" for a new book by Daniel Araya and Michael Peters, Education in the Creative Economy: Knowledge and Learning in the Age of Innovation (Peter Lang, 2010). "Learning in the Creative Economy" discusses how digital media is disrupting the education system in the US.
It is based upon four research projects conducted at ID over the last few years that has been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. These have included Thinkering Space, led by Dale Fahnstrom, Greg Prygrocki and ...
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Communicating complex design ideas is difficult enough when the details are well understood. Communicating a plan from a concept team to a detail team in just enough detail to make the Plan's intention very clear without handicapping the follow-on team's ability to maximize its own creatively is a delicate process. The "not-invented-here" syndrome must be addressed.
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
Transcript of a speech by Jay Doblin at the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Design's merger with Illinois Institute of Technology. Excellent perspective on the evolution of the school from the experimentalism of the Bauhaus to its current emphasis on theory and method.
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
A plan for an adaptive housing system designed to improve quality of life in a wide range of cultural and climatic settings while helping to meet mid-century challenges of population growth, resource depletion and climate change.
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
Simply asking the question, "How could these components work together?" is often enough to open highly productive opportunities for innovation. While simple systems with few components are readily served by this kind of idea generation, as complexity increases, the work load can become intimidating. A systematic approach identifies relationships most likely to be worth investigating and assures good coverage with reduced work load.
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
Great ideas seldom are the simple a-ha! inspirations attributed to inventors and discoverers. Most often, they are the culmination of thorough and painstaking work that may begin with the glimmer of an a-ha insight. but ends with the synthesis of many supporting concepts into a comprehensive solution.
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
Includes chapter by Judith Gregory, "A Complex Model for International and Inter-Cultural Collaboration in Health Information Systems Design, and a chapter by Peter Storkerson (ID PhD 2000).
Written by on date 19 January 2012 in Publications .
In the innovator’s tool box, abstraction is one of the most powerful tools. For the creative mind, it offers a way to step away from the mundane to find fresh ways to conceptualize
