A look at a small but determined initiative using sports in a focused and determined way to achieve one’s goals as well as a way to develop a solid sense of self and a care for a larger key community.
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NOVA Lab in the News
This interview was hosted by Hazel Mason of the Modern Learners and their Change School initiative. Hazel does a great job of drawing out some of the really salient and critical outcomes of NOVA Lab
Play Ball!
Last week I published the second edition of the “Do Good Things” Newsletter/blog post. In it, I spoke about the great good work of “Coach Ballgame,” James Lowe. Today, I have the pleasure of releasing the first episode (it’s rough…but beautiful) of our “Doing Good Things” podcast featuring Coach Ballgame. If you have a cupContinue reading “Play Ball!”
From Great to Good
I’d rather live knowing I tried to do all I could to make the world a better place rather than simply bettering my own place in the world.
Lightning in a Bottle…Twice: The Joy of Learning
This is the kind of experience that shifts the mind utterly, that reveals something we’ve hidden from students behind tests, and rules, and most of all, grades.
This is the Joy of Learning embodied.
Design Build Challenge: Weltanschauung–Design as World View
I still believe Design Thinking can help save the world.
Apparently my students have come to think so, too.
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.
Build Design Challenge: Day 7 Prototyping–Fail early, Fail Often
Gentrification was a word I have never heard of until this class, it means that wealthier individuals change poorer areas in many ways. You would think that it is good but that makes everything more expensive, to wealthy people it isn’t a problem but to those less fortunate it forces them to move. With this information provided by builduniversity.org, we began creating a prototype.
Build Design Challenge: Collaborating, Defining, Affinity Mapping
Friday, October 29 found us gathering in groups around our clients and sharing all our insights into the client’s life. Culling all those observations and then organizing them into clusters through affinity mapping will help us identify pain points, opportunities, or needs that we can solve to help the client and their neighborhood develop intoContinue reading “Build Design Challenge: Collaborating, Defining, Affinity Mapping”
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