Go out & get the latest issue of Monocle, including a great City Survey on Barcelona - video @MonocleTravel http://bit.ly/kMmOM0
Modkit is an in-browser graphical programming environment for microcontrollers, i.e. Arduino http://www.modk.it
“Con Elecciones.es quisimos influenciar nuestro entorno mas inmediato” Marek Fodor, co-fundador de Atrapalo.com #ciutada40
Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators available for download - PDF http://bit.ly/gw7IF0
Enviu is Open for Investment
mkbcrowdfunding from mkbservicedesk on Vimeo.
Enviu is launching Enviu Participations B.V.; a platform for impact investments. By impact investment it is meant investing in a company which business has a high social and/or environmental impact and is still aiming on making good money.
Enviu Participations B.V. is the holding company of start-ups developed by Enviu Foundation. Currently, Enviu Participations B.V. has stakes in:
- Sustainable Dance Club B.V. (25,5%)
- Three Wheels United B.V. (50%)
- Yummm! Concepts B.V. (5%)
Enviu Participations B.V. intends to - additionally - acquire nine new start-ups with a high social and/or environmental impact in the period from 2011 to 2014 from Enviu Foundation. Interested to do some impact investment? Read how you can do it here.
Inventor Portrait: Steven Sasson & the Digital Camera
Inventor Portrait: Steven Sasson from David Friedman on Vimeo.
“By the time an idea matures, it will live on a complete different world” Steven Sasson, inventor of the digital camera.
See more inventor portraits by photographer David Friedman.
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy http://v.zite.com/fg6b8H
Wubbo Ockels’ superbus heading to Dubai & featured at The Wall Street Journal http://t.co/1MrIkiO
Want to know the story behind Enviu? See founder Stef Van Dongen explaining it http://tedxamazonia.com.br/tedtalk/stef-van-dongen
Sustainability & Design Thinking @ ParisTech
Summary of a week long workshop at Ecole des Ponts - ParisTech during the course introduction to Design.
Originally posted at Design Thinking Barcelona
(Source: dthinkingbcn)
And the winner is the Twisted Team, that made recycling playful by turning a wastebin into a voting machine. Congratz!
Summary of the Sustainability & Design Thinking Workshop @ ParisTech - video http://bit.ly/hdmSgC
One thing that I find very consistent: good ideas come from anywhere. The biggest factor in predicting where good work will come from is “how much does this person actually care about what they are working on?
Johnny Chung Lee at The Re-emergence of DIY vs Big Organizations
Sustainability & Design Thinking; prototyping solutions http://t.co/MV4ArSt
Building empathy maps at ParisTech http://t.co/ZFhySNg
