At the presentation of “How’re you Barcelona?” cracking the code of the creative class. [pic]: http://t.co/ov9Wi6S2
Barcelona Clean Energy Innovation Tour - Video http://t.co/R5vT3BlR via @bcn_business
In Studio: Recipes for Systematic Change
The book In Studio: Recipes for Systematic Change, explores the Helsinki Design Lab Studio Model, a unique way of bringing together the right people, a carefully framed problem, a supportive place, and an open-ended process to craft an integrated vision and sketch the pathway towards strategic improvement. It’s particularly geared towards problems that have no single owner. Currently HDL is working on the themes: aging, extended well-being, and sustainability.
The book is available as free download, and also for purchase at selected bookstores.
Also from HDL: Ethnography Fieldguide
Seis grandes empresas y el Gobierno Vasco crean el primer polo de innovación en ecodiseño http://t.co/VJMRNLP5
Open Design Will Change Everything
At Open-Designism we find this great collection of Open Design examples. There, we learn that design is totally open as it bears 4 freedoms;
- Freedom to use, including making it
- Freedom to study how the design works and to change it to make it do what you wish
- Freedom to redistribute copies of the design, so you can help your neighbours
- Freedom to distribute copies of your own modified version, so the whole community can benefit from your changes
Airdrop wins James Dyson Award
The James Dyson Award is a design competition for engineering, industrial and product design students or recent graduates which emphasizes problem solving, inventiveness and creativity. Edward Linacre’s Airdrop won the overall prize in the 2011 James Dyson Award. This year’s brief was to “Design something that solves a problem”
Here an illustration of how the Airdrop system works.
via PSFK
Barcelona Hosts Smart City Expo
In 2050, 75% of the world population will live in an urban environment. The constant population growth will require an urgent reflection on how these spaces will absorb and facilitate the life of their inhabitants. Fira de Barcelona’s new event, Smart City Expo & World Congress, which will be held from 29 November to 2 December, responds to each of the challenges that will arise with this scenario and redefines current cities. The congress will be the meeting point for sector professionals, heads of public administrations and experts, who will give the keys to understanding the workings and development of cities of the future, known as smart cities.
The concept ‘Smart City’ refers to cities that, seeking to increase the quality of life of their inhabitants, develop technological improvements in order to create urban environments that are not only more liveable but also more efficient in the management of available resources, whether they be energy, water or air quality. This need has led to high tech companies from different fields providing large cities with new technological applications, which also means a new business opportunity.
Speakers include, amongst others:
- Carlo Ratti - MIT SENSEable City Lab
- Adam Greenfield - Urbanscale
- Neil Gershenfeld - MIT Center for Bits & Atoms
- Vicente Guallard - Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
- Michael Braungart - EUR
- Enric Ruiz-Geli - Cloud 9
- Gunter Pauli - ZERI Foundation
Smart City Expo & World Congress
29 November - 2 December 2011
RT @IdeationCards: Global Sustainability Jam pictures available online http://t.co/fXb8OFEf http://t.co/AX7f3FW2
RT @BeUnreasonable: 3 days remain to apply to #Unreasonable2011! 50 mentors, 20 funds, 24 peers, 100 investors: http://t.co/4EwKE7tW #socent
RT @cltucci: Radically new: Podcast based on research with @LucaBerchicci http://t.co/xG9ffUYC
Yeah! thanks RT @JWBode: I have just invested in Enviu http://t.co/StbrkRp8 #crowdfunding
Gracias a ti! RT@tonitio: me acabo de convertir en socio mini-micro-tiny-minoritario de @enviu! http://t.co/pfhselUs
RT @frogdesign: A look at the design-week phenomenon around the world…and how it affects local economies: http://t.co/tdi13mIC (by @rjmac)
Jason Calacanis interviews Eris Ries from Lean Startup @calacanis @ericries http://t.co/LMUhlrAZ
First Flash Build by Nodstrom Innovation Lab
Today we learned about Nodstrom Innovation Lab, a lean startup within the Fortune 500 company Nodstrom (fashion & apparel retail).
In this video, you can see how the Nodstrom Innovation Lab team performs a so-called “Flash Build”; similar to a flash mob but in this case they arrive to a retail without prior notice, deploy their material and aim to build a working app within 5 days, constantly iterating with the customers.
Via Design Thinking Barcelona (source: Eric Ries)
