Substance Over Style
An international design award based in Denmark celebrates products and projects that aim “to improve life.”
Design Thinking - Most Popular
Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems (more)
The New Prize: Long-term Training and Engagement
Prize and challenge designers are focusing on training future social innovators and creating communities of engaged problem solvers.
The Ethics of Innovation
An ethical framework can bridge the worlds of startup technology and international development to strengthen cross-sector innovation in the social sector.
The Case for Social Innovation Micro-Credentials
Digital badges as a credentialing tool may force us to re-think and redesign education, especially for emerging fields such as social innovation.
Government Innovation in Child Welfare
The federal government is empowering states to improve child welfare systems using design-thinking and other innovative approaches.
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The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges
In The Social Labs Revolution, Zaid Hassan argues in favor of an experimental, rather than a planning-based, approach to today's challenges.
Pop-Up Housing
In London, the YMCA is combining prefab construction with stylish design to create a new kind of affordable home.
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A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
Design Thinking for Accountability
A new community justice system in Liberia emerges from a design-thinking approach.
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Rejecting the instinct to do everything, Essentialism investigates the idea of doing "less, but better."