Designing the Digital City
Internet technology can help us to connect, globally and otherwise, but only if we structure it well.
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Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems (more)
Calling for a Triple Bottom Line Design Metric
A fledgling program trains designers to consider the ecological, economic, and social issues shaping the built environment.
What John Doerr Can Do for Women in Design
Overlooking the unique and invaluable role of women as design leaders is bad for business and for all of us.
What Is Design If Not Human-Centered?
The explosive growth of interest in human-centered design raises bigger questions about traditional design education, training, and practice.
Product Paternalism
Women’s empowerment means voter choice, partner choice, healthcare choice, reproductive choice, career choice, and consumer choice.
The Commodification of Architecture
Catastrophes of the built environment, like the Bangladeshi factory collapse, expose the true cost in public suffering when we fail to build resiliently.
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Social Innovation and Resilience: How One Enhances the Other
Social innovations must take into account the complexity of social problems and foster solutions resilient enough to adapt and survive.
Bottom-Up Solutions to Mitigating Climate Change
NGOs, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and philanthropists need to help slow climate warming.