Month: November 2017
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Design Council Spark 2017 -last chance November !!
There is still time to apply to the Design Council Spark programme. The Spark programme provides design expertise and finance to help innovators and entrepreneurs develop product ideas and business opportunities. The Design Council are seeking ideas to address 6 key themes: Health & well being Energy & environment Home & life Transport Sport & […]
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The role of design education in addressing world challenges
Over the last months, I have been repeatedly involved in conversations around the relation between design education and the world’s challenges. How does design education contribute to dealing with big challenges such as poverty, hunger, people’s displacement or environmental disasters? Some conversations will approach design education as a space for developing the design capacity of […]
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Design and anticipation
Anticipation is the ability to act in response to, or in preparation of, a potential future reality. This is a key ability for people and social groups that are involved in design tasks (see Zamenopoulos and Alexiou, 2007; Zamenopoulos, 2012). There is a very interesting conference on Anticipation coming up next week from the 8th […]