I still believe Design Thinking can help save the world.
Apparently my students have come to think so, too.
Category Archives: Innovation
Build Design Challenge: Testing–“A Little Help Here?”
Life can go by fast, but living in the moment with people you genuinely enjoy being around can help slow things down.
Design Build Challenge: Day 8–Tightening up and Getting Loose
With Friday presentations at Fluxspace coming up, designers are revisiting clients, getting on the fly feedback, and working on pitch decdks.
It’s Knot that Simple
Just tying up some loose ends about innovation.
Natalie Nixon–Wonder And Rigor for a Flourishing Life
Back in October of 2020, Natalie Nixon, Creativity Consultant Extraordinaire and author of The Creativity Leap, Zoomed in to talk to NOVA Lab students about Wonder, Rigor, and living a life driven by creativity. It’s an enriching and amazing presentation that I will be sharing with classes for years to come. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P4_irkkFjpTyTjIWSzCuOkDh0z4-lEmt/preview
Gettin’ on the Purpose-Based, Design-Driven Soul Train
Check out what Disney and Coursera have cooked up to get people connected with meaningful, purpose-full learning.
You Are Where We Need You To Be
What do you do as an innovative learner when Life throws you a COVID-19 Curveball…?
The Most Amazing Day(s): Teaching as Experience Design
For the past few days, ever since inNOVAtion Lab’s phenomenal trip to Corbett Inc.’s Fluxspace, I’ve been trying to figure out what has been happening in class. The trip to Flux was a highlight of a very young year, and it comes on the heels of another highlight, our trip to the B.Phl Innovation Festival Continue reading “The Most Amazing Day(s): Teaching as Experience Design”
Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education
At the beginning of the year, I discovered that a local design firm in my neighborhood was opening an incubator/maker/presentation/learning space in a turn of the 20th-century woollen mill. Dubbed Flux, the space was exactly what I have been trying to create in my own school, only about 7 times bigger! So I had toContinue reading “Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education”
Innovation: “This Must Be the Place”
When I was barely in 9th grade, I first encountered the music of Talking Heads. It was the summer of 1983, and Speaking in Tounges was on heavy rotation on my Sony Walkman as I sat on a rusting, red Wheel Horse tractor cutting acres of grass for my house and my neighbor’s. Hours of idle passesContinue reading “Innovation: “This Must Be the Place””
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