Redesigning DEI
Decolonize Design offers an alternative framework grounded in belonging, dignity, and justice that seeks to abolish assimilation and promotes taking responsibility to challenge and confront racism and anti-Blackness head-on.
Design Thinking Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems
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Inclusive Mobility Solutions
FutureLab identifies the gaps in mobility access that can hamper people’s ability to navigate everyday activities and codesigns solutions with its partners.
SSIR Online, Spring 2021 Issue
Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on design thinking, foundation spending, and rebuilding US democracy.
SSIR Guide to Design Thinking, 10 Years Later
In the 10 years since SSIR published a seminal article on design thinking in social innovation, many other leaders of change have refined, criticized, and praised the practice. In this roundup, explore their work over the years and an update of design thinking concepts written for the Winter 2021 issue by the original authors.
Using Design Thinking to Tackle Climate Change When ‘What You Know No Longer Works’
As climate change creates new ambiguity problems for farmers, communities need to better understand and assess their own environments.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking
Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.
Social Innovation Needs Design, and Design Needs Social Innovation
Social innovation needs people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose. It needs designers.
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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.
Why Good Causes Need Great Design
Few things are as important to an organization’s growth as great design.