Posts tagged Design Thinking

We organize a three-day long (Post)Material Design event during the New York Design Week, May 19-21, to explore the emerging (post)material design practice through three entry points drawing from conceptual cornerstones of time-honored design practices: (Post)Material Brief, (Post)Material Craft and (Post)Material Portfolio. Come!
We looked at the principles of engaging into radical co-creation, which allows us to collaborate for groundbreaking innovation. This is the presentation for the PDMA Social Product Development and Co-Creation Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on June 27-28, 2011.
We’ve been back in Helsinki for a while, connecting with new partners, initiating projects and hooking up with Finnish and European leading-edge thinkers and doers – and there sure are plenty of amazing things cooking in Helsinki at the moment.
Wevolve looked at the three strategic themes selected for the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 - Open City, Global Responsibility and Roots for New Growth - and mapped the future directions for more livable and lovable cities. READ & DOWNLOAD THE REPORT
One of our favorite recent business books is Roger Martin’s Design of Business, Why Design Thinking Is The Next Competitive Advantage, hands down. He has managed to capture in an eloquent way the core principles of both innovating and running a business (or other non-commercial endeavor) and simplified the profound questions of reasoning and decision making to explain why the traditional fact driven business logic is not suitable for groundbreaking innovation and how “design thinking” and its explorative approach is needed to drive change in the world.