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