What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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Author Archives: Deepani Seth
An Innovation Approach to Healthcare
The front end of service delivery. The point where the user comes in contact with the service. The drill bit. Where metal meets skin. That is the point that defines the service, defines the user’s perception of the service. Resultantly … Continue reading
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A Mother and Child Centric Approach to Nutrition: Systems Thinking for Public Healthcare
Our public healthcare system, all its policies, programs and designs, seem to be targeted primarily at the mother and the child- the end beneficiaries at whose welfare the system is aimed. While this way of thinking and designing may seem … Continue reading
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Tagged Bihar Innovation Lab, BIL, health, health care, health innovation, maternity health
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Innovating for Reading: Ideas from the Innovation Workshop in Mumbai
Here is a list of all the ideas that the innovation workshop in Mumbai threw up. These are the innovations that each participant developed individually and presented to the group for voting and potential collaborations. Go through them, and if … Continue reading
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Tagged ideas, Mumbai, primary education, Reading, readinginnovation
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Proposals and all that, with READ Alliance in Mumbai
A quiet room on a quiet floor of a big building in a big big city. A bunch of people gather in the room to talk about proposals. No silly, this isn’t the kind of thing that you wish … Continue reading
Ideas from the first round of Innovations at Early Reading Innovation Workshop
So here is a list of the ideas that each participant came up with some time ago. The workshop has gone beyond this, to actually developing some selected ideas, but I’m a tad behind with all the jumping between physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Early Reading, ideas, innovation workshop, READ Alliance
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Crunching out Innovations at the Workshop
Participants have broken away from the group, each finding a space within the larger space and an idea within their pool of knowledge. Each person has picked one or more of the Seven Steps which they most want to address … Continue reading
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Tagged Early Reading, ideas, innovation workshop, READ Alliance
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Participants at the READ Alliance Innovation Workshop take the First Step to Innovation
Groups gathered around each Step of Reading. Discussions ensued, with each person bringing forth their own experiences on the Step in question, adding to the statistics and the theory already presented on the poster. Now, one member from each group … Continue reading
READ Alliance Early Grade Innovation Workshop
The participants have gathered. The Seven Steps to Reading are displayed around the space. These steps make up the framework for innovation in early grade reading developed by the READ Alliance. The idea is to allow the participants to understand … Continue reading
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Tagged Early Reading, innovation workshop, READ Alliance, Reading
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