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.
FutureLab identifies the gaps in mobility access that can hamper people’s ability to navigate everyday activities and codesigns solutions with its partners.
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.
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.
As climate change creates new ambiguity problems for farmers, communities need to better understand and assess their own environments.
How the work of bringing voter registration kiosks into emergency rooms has become more urgent—and more difficult—during the COVID-19 pandemic, and also expanded in scope. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
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.
Both human-centered and systems-thinking methods fit within an effective design approach, and can work in conjunction to address social challenges.
Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.
Principles and tactics for creating strategic convenings that foster meaningful interaction and outcomes.
An ethical framework can bridge the worlds of startup technology and international development to strengthen cross-sector innovation in the social sector.