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11.21.11: Phil Patton
Audi Urban Future Summit 2011Report on one of the latest conferences to take on the global theme of the city
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10.04.11: Julia Cooke
Cuba Libre: Contemporary Architecture in HavanaYoung architects struggle to update the face of Cuba.
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05.03.11: Gavin Browning
Community Hero: Queens Museum of ArtQueens Museum of Art, a model for community service, breaks ground on new addition.
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04.25.11: Phil Patton
Sustainable GoldPhil Patton on the conference “Gold: Substance, Symbol and Significance."
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03.28.11: Julie Lasky
Chandigarh on the BlockFurnishings designed for Corbusier's urban masterpiece are being sold at auction. How outraged should we be?
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02.07.11: Ernest Beck
Hester Street CollaborativeReport on Hester Street Collaborative's pro-bono design model.
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01.24.11: Maria Popova
The Age of Coworking: Collaborative Consumption for the Creative CommunityReport on the new (golden) age of coworking.
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01.05.11: Phil Patton
Charging DoubleComparing two new electric-car chargers: Blink and WattStation
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12.14.10: Constantin Boym
Out of Sight: Qatari Workers' HousingConstantin Boym reports on efforts to improve the living conditions of Qatar's migrant workers.
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12.13.10: Adam Harrison Levy
Sustainable Christmas TreesFrom artificial firs to rented spruces, a report on alternatives to the chopped-down Xmas tree.
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11.19.10: Maria Popova
CEOs for Cities Community Challenge: Robust Public LifeA CEOs for Cities conference held in Detroit in November 2010 sought to define and quantify the magnetic force of a metropolis.
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08.03.10: Ernest Beck
Bellagio Museum Symposium: AbstractIn April 2010, 22 participants met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is an abstract summary of the final report of their discussions.
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08.03.10: William Drenttel, Julie Lasky
Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a report on their conversation.
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07.19.10: Ernest Beck
The World as Our StudioReport on Worldstudio's hybrid business model for collaborating with for-profit and not-for-profit clients (while supporting a foundation).
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06.30.10: Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
New Visions of HomeReport on new housing models for the elderly.
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06.28.10: Meena Kadri
India's Epic Head CountThe enormous task of conducting India's 2010 census is aided by a newly designed form.
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06.10.10: Ernest Beck
Catapult Design: How to Run a Design Firm for Social ChangeCatapult Design’s nonprofit model offers a new way to think about how designers can engage social innovation projects.
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06.02.10: Zara Arshad
How to Green an EmbassyWorking at the British Embassy Beijing with zero budget means that even straightforward solutions, such as implementing a recycling system, pose a challenge.
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05.03.10: Roger Martin
Design Thinking Comes to the U.S. ArmyDesign is almost overnight the centerpiece of military doctrine and the U.S. Army has gotten design thinking quite right. The struggle to get design thinking ensconced in Army doctrine, though, is no easy feat.
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04.19.10: Jane Margolies
The Laugh BugIs Volkswagen's Fun Theory campaign anything more than a turbocharged marketing stunt?
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02.17.10: Jessica Helfand
Better Living Through ArtistrySEWA, a cooperative textile manufacturing company in Ahmedebad, India, is a network of self-employed women.
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02.03.10: Ernest Beck
The Cotton ClubReport on the complex, and sometimes muddled, standards for certifying organic cotton.
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01.18.10: Ernest Beck
State of ShelterRelief organizations still rely on the same basic options for emergency housing, but new ideas are taking hold.
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10.14.09: Adam Harrison Levy
O Tannenbaum!People are talking differently about Christmas trees this year. They’re downscaling or simplifying their annual rite.
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