Collaborative Design Tackles Homelessness
A group designing innovative support systems in Portland, Ore., is identifying better ways of living for the homeless and for communities at large.
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Turning Design Thinking to Design Doing
Getting started: insights from experiments in Southeast Asia.
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No Straight Lines: Making Sense of Our Non-linear World
In No Straight Lines, Alan Moore presents a new way of thinking about our complex world, one that emphasizes participation and human relationships.
Citizen as Designer
By shifting the responsibility of the citizen from deciding to designing, we can redirect resources away from conflict and toward creating better ideas.
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inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
inGenius argues that we don’t look at everything in our environment as an opportunity for ingenuity—but that we should.
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Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving
Wicked Problems explores characteristics of and approaches to today's most complex social issues.
Calling for a Global Design Service Corps
Only a sliver of the world’s population currently benefits from well-designed spaces in which to live their best lives.
Q&A with MASS Co-founder Michael Murphy
A new generation of architects and designers are raising expectations for the public interest design movement.
Constructing the Case for Impact Investment
What social entrepreneurs need to be thinking about when approaching impact investors and making the pitch for investment capital.