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12.08.11: The Editors
Designing an Educational BreakthroughA new initiative recruits young adults to create ways to promote adolescent literacy
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11.08.11: John Cary
Architecture's Internship Requirement Needs a RedesignAn argument for rethinking architecture's internship requirement
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10.25.11: William Drenttel
Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Program DescriptionThis symposium, sponsored by the Winterhouse Institute, was held October 17-19 2010 in Falls Village, Connecticut. This was the initial information shared with participants.
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10.25.11: William Drenttel
Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: ParticipantsThe Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, was held August 14-16, 2011 in Falls Village, Connecticut.
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10.25.11: William Drenttel
Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Program DescriptionThe original program description for the Winterhouse Institute symposium at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, August 2011 on social design in education.
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10.24.11: William Drenttel and Julie Lasky
Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final ReportThe final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, August 2011, where 28 participants from a variety of design and education programs discussed the challenges of social change initiatives within their schools, museums and programs.
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10.12.11: Julie Lasky
Media Design MattersArt Center offers a new graduate track in social design that combines communications and technologies strategies with field work.
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07.22.11: John Thackara
Ten Ways to Redesign Design CompetitionsHow to improve design competitions aimed at social good.
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05.27.11: By Alexia
My Studio H ExperienceAdventures in design crits: A high school junior recounts her Studio H year working with onerous classmates and power tools.
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04.28.11: Maria Popova
Educating for a Future Within Our SightInterview with Rita J. King about reimagining the future of education and work.
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03.14.11: Jonathan Schultz
Just Keep Truckin'David Rockwell-designed truck for Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.
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02.22.11: Meena Kadri
YozaYoza stories are directed to African youth who are book-poor yet mobile-rich.
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02.20.11: John Thackara
Africa: Where Events Are KingJohn Thackara interviews Mugendi M’Rithaa.
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01.20.11: Edited by Julie Lasky
Social Design in Three Dimensions: Four ExamplesA business-school case study inspires MFA design students.
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01.03.11: Julie Lasky
MSC Greenhouse ProjectOn learning about science, nutrition and politics at the Manhattan School for Children.
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12.20.10: Maria Popova
Helping People Help Their NarrativesInterview with Andrew McGregor, founder of The Tiziano Project
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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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12.01.10: Julie Lasky
Bigshot Camera UpdateReporting the status of an innovative children's camera in development
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11.11.10: Willam Drenttel and Julie Lasky
Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final ReportThe final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, October 17–19, 2010, where 13 educators from a variety of design and business programs discussed the challenges and objectives of social-change initiatives within their schools and universities.
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10.15.10: William Drenttel
Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participant Case StudiesParticipants of Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, October 17-19, 2010, each contributed case studies of a class, project or program that bridges design and social innovation.
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10.15.10: William Drenttel
Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: ParticipantsThis outlines the participants of the Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, which was held October 17-19 2011, in Falls Village CT.
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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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07.12.10: Constantin Boym
Teaching in a Time of UncertaintyMeditation on the doubt creeping into today's design practice.
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07.08.10: Vera Sacchetti
"But Teacher! That’s Not Design!"Interview with Portuguese communication designer Barbara Alves about teaching in Mozambique.
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06.19.10: Ernest Beck
Teach For AllReport on Teach For All, an $8.6 million program to expand educational opportunities throughout the world created by Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, and Brett Wigdortz, founder of Teach First in the U.K.
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06.01.10: Dominique Browning
Loose CanonReview of "Why Design Now?" Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, New York. Through January 9, 2011.
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05.12.10: Kate Andrews
Dori GíslasonInterview with design educator Halldór Gíslason about his work in Mozambique.
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05.06.10: William Drenttel
Design for Change ContestKiran Bir Sethi is a designer, teacher, principal, advocate and social entrepreneur. Now her “Design for Change Contest,” a recent initiative that swept India in 2009, is expanding globally.
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04.27.10: Kaomi Goetz
Austin Center for DesignInteractive designer Jon Kolko launches a school to help designers build economically viable careers working for social betterment.
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03.22.10: Ernest Beck
Es TiempoReport on Es Tiempo, a campaign designed to encourage Hispanic women in Southern California to seek annual screenings for cervical cancer.
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02.23.10: Julie Lasky
Sweating the Small StuffReview of TED 2010 conference, "What the World Needs Now," Long Beach, California, February 9–13.
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12.14.09: Jane Margolies
St. Augustine School Chicken ProjectReport on the sustainability program at St. Augustine parochial school in the South Bronx.
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12.10.09: Julie Lasky
Bigshot CameraReport on a camera that children assemble to learn about science and engineering principles.
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12.03.09: Jennifer Ehrenberg
Chicago Welcomes YouOn designing a resettlement process for Burmese immigrants in Chicago.
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11.28.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit Report: UNICEF and Early Childhood DevelopmentAt the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the UNICEF Early Childhood Development Project proposed a new approach to emergency kits that would be more precisely tuned to young children’s intellectual and emotional needs, as well as outlined a basis for the next AIGA/INDEX: Aspen Design Challenge.
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11.20.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit: Initial ReportInitial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.
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11.16.09: Jonathan Schultz
DESISReport on the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability project's latest home at New York's New School.
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11.02.09: Jonathan Schultz
Kick4LifeAIDS education mixes with soccer in plans for a new Lesotho stadium.
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09.02.09: Julie Lasky
Pizza FarmReport on Project M at Winterhouse's Pizza Farm event in rural Connecticut in August 2009.
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08.25.09: Allison Arieff
EmergenceEmergence, a new massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) fosters diplomatic skills.
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08.10.09: Juliette LaMontagne
Please Turn on Your Cell PhoneIn response to the New York City Department of Education's ban on cell phones in schools, an educator argues for their continued use — as mini computers that help students learn.
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08.07.09: Julia Galef
Question BoxThe Question Box project puts the developing-world poor just a phone call away from an internet search.
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05.27.09: John Thackara
Make Sense, Not StuffJohn Thackara presents a three-step plan to connect design schools to the green economy.
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