We’re on our third day of Build.org‘s Design Build Challenge. There’s plenty of time to join. Check out the website! What’s most impressed me about Build.org’s work on this year’s challenge is just how real Build University is trying to keep the experience to the Design Thinking methodology. Today’s work on empathy is excellent andContinue reading “Build Design Challenge: Day Three”
Tag Archives: Social Impact
Introducing: Design Build Challenge!
Background This year I’ve scripted the curriculum for NOVA Lab a bit more tightly during the first marking period. In the past, things were more open, exploratory, and…well…chaotic (see map below). There was a beauty to that. We discovered opportunities, lunged at hunches, and explored numerous though tangential paths of thought. But also a lotContinue reading “Introducing: Design Build Challenge!”
Wakelet Boards for NOVA Lab
Please check out the Wakelet Boards for curated articles on Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Future of Work, among other things. NOVA Lab Repress–Articles and documents that relate to & expand the NOVA Lab Way Storytelling and Branding–Includes a great article on Gritty (the world’s greatest mascot) and how design played a role in hisContinue reading “Wakelet Boards for NOVA Lab”
It’s Always About Growth
Look. It doesn’t matter to me if you’re 5, 15, or 50. If you’re living, you’re learning. And if you’re learning, you’re growing. So before I go on and discuss the great learning experience some of the students from PVHS’s inNOVAtion Lab had on February 5th, in the midst of this pandemic, I just wantContinue reading “It’s Always About Growth”
You Are Where We Need You To Be
What do you do as an innovative learner when Life throws you a COVID-19 Curveball…?
Empathy: The Museum
Museums come in all shapes and sizes. This one, which I found through @tombarrett ‘s “dialogical learning” e-mails, offers a look at Empathy, and it does so in a rather ingenious way. We talk so much about empathy as the key to design thinking, but the concept is far deeper than the utilitarian implications spurredContinue reading “Empathy: The Museum”
Open Ideo: Design Thinking For Social Impact
I’ve grown fond of the way we’ve been discussing people’s ideas, offering pushback and extending their thinking in new and prosperous ways. Don Wettrick’s “ROTH IRA” Cycle is something we’ll have to struggle through a few times before we get the pacing and rhythms down, but that’s the same with orchestrating any large group (andContinue reading “Open Ideo: Design Thinking For Social Impact”
Innovation Lab 