HackFwd invests on “Europe’s most passionate geeks” with pre-seed money while offering them support in the form of training and coaching. During the HackFwd Build 2.0 event, Tom Hulme from IDEO gave a presentation about 12 Ways to Add Design Thinking to Your Project, including:
Keep challenging questions
Think hard who do you involve; embrace diversity
Involve partners in the process; they’re smarter than you
As part of their study to comprehend the sheer scale of the seven billion people inhabiting the earth, National Geographic have categorized the most typical person occupying our planet.
The person best fitting the bill is right handed, 28 years old, of Han Chinese descent, male and possesses a cell phone but not a bank account.
The question as to what makes for a successful city is a complex one, and one that affects nearly all of us; by 2050 around three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities; Phaidon asked an esteemed group of urban experts for their take on successful city living.
In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.
Help them finish their film by donating financially or, if you’re more musically inclined, donate a song for the soundtrack. Watch the trailer for the film after the jump and check out their KICKSTARTER!
La UOC lanza el MBA en Social Entrepreneurship, donde llevo la asignatura Eco-Innovación y Sostenibilidad. Si te interesa formar parte de un programa de educación a distancia con el sello de calidad de la UOC, este es tu MBA.
El MBA en Social entrepreneurship es el programa más completo del sector social y empresarial en España, un programa pionero, innovador y flexible, dirigido a personas que desean emprender una empresa social o convertirse en intraemprendedores dinamizadores dentro de su organización, sea ésta sin ánimo de lucro, gubernamental o cualquier otro tipo de empresa.
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.
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”
Microsoft’s Kinect has been massively successful, originally built as a reactive response to Nintendo’s Wii, it’s a technology that’s been hacked, played with and manipulated way beyond its original intent.
Microsoft has no idea of its potential, but when hackers played, instead of scolding them, it encouraged them, which gave birth to a whole culture of ideas.
