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: Sedona Chinn
The Decline of Social Capital
Since the 1960s and 1970s, Robert Putnam, a professor at Harvard University, has observed the decline in what he calls ‘Social Capital’: features of social organization, networks, norms, and trust, that increase the ability of people in a society to … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Society, designpublic, engagement, innovation, institutions, network, participation, politics, public, robert putnam, social, social capital, technology, trust, voting
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Innovation works best when government does least?
The question of the nature of government’s role in social issues and the market has been debated to an impasse. So too, it seems, has its role in innovation. Does government support foster innovation? Or, does innovation work best when … Continue reading
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Tagged designpublic, development, economist, economy, government, innovation, open innovation, private, product, research, science, technology
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New NESTA Report on Innovation in India
Can growth of higher education keep up with India’s human potential? Can India’s low cost innovations disrupt the global economy? What effects do abstract social and creative innovations have in the Indian context? These are some of the questions that … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, business, democracy, designpublic, development, goals, goverment, governance in africa, India, innovation, kristen bound, nesta, report, world bank
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Effective Technology in Education Innovation
Khan Academy, which began in 2004 as a small collection of youtube tutorials by Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard, has become a library of free educational videos that has has earned the recognition and support of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bill gates, classroom, designpublic, digital, distance learning, education, Gates Foundation, google, independent, innovation, K-12, khan academy, learning, math, online, science, students, technology, video
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Experience Based Design: Healthcare
Public institutions are often criticized as being bureaucratic, inefficient, or ineffective at fulfilling the purposes they are designed to do, compared with private, user-centric, industries. Often in the case of public institutions, individuals have no opportunity to choose a better … Continue reading
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Tagged carers, community, design, designpublic, future communities, healthcare, hospital, innovation, patients, private, public, society, staff, trust, UK, Young Foundation
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ColourNext Dialogues in New Delhi: An Overview
The second edition of ColourNext Dialogues, a discussion on the trends identified in Asian Paint’s ColourNext project for 2012, was held in Delhi on February 28th. Fashion designers, artists, architects, interior designers, and students met for an evening to interact … Continue reading
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Tagged ascending, Asian Paints, Awakening, CKS, color, colour, colournext, Crystal, delhi, design, designpublic, Headrush, individual, innovation, interior, Mumbai, palette, Small Joys, spaces, transparent, urban
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ColourNext Dialogues Delhi: Crystal
The third installation of the evening was Crystal. Speakers Anthony Lopez, CEO and Primary Designer at Lopez Design, and Banhi Jha, Dean of the National Institute for Fashion Technology (NIFT), noted Crystal was distinctive from the previous installations due to … Continue reading
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Tagged Colournext Delhi, ColourNext Dialogues 2012, Crystal, design, interiors, spaces
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ColourNext Dialogues Delhi: Small Joys
At ColourNext Dialogues in Delhi, Small Joys was the first installation with which the participants interacted. The speakers, fashion designer Nida Mahmood and gallery owner Nidhi Jyoti Jain, were initially struck by the idea of memory and nostalgia. The installation … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian Paints, CKS, ColourNext 2012, Colournext Delhi, ColourNext Dialogues 2012, New Delhi, Small Joys
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Designing Communities for Social Sustainability
Population growth is going to have profound impacts on politics, economics, and society in the coming decades, one issue being the basic question: Where are we going to put these people? “UN surveys indicate that…by 2030 over two billion people … Continue reading
China’s Need for Innovation
Minxin Pei, professor of government at Clairmont McKenna College in California recently wrote an article “Nixon Then, China Now†explaining China’s weaknesses hindering its ability to truly compete as a world power. He argues that China’s one-party regime results in … Continue reading
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Tagged business, china, creativity, design public, development, innovation, one party system
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