At Open Forum for Inhabitat: Socially-minded venture entrepreneurs want a new kind of company. Choose for-profit, and you are unable to receive grants from foundations looking to fund the very social benefit you are aiming to provide. Choose not-for-profit, and you kill the entrepreneurial spirit, as you are limited from offering stock options, owning the
First attempt at a “five” themed article at Open Forum for Inhabitat: Are you one of 48% of Americans looking to vacation closer to home this year? According to a Harris Interactive Poll, almost half of the country is planning on staying put for their vacation. The good news for those choosing to vacation locally is
Collecting Manifestos I’m collecting my favorite design (and other) manifestos via Social Text and others. Here are some to start. 1776 The United States Declaration of Independence 1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen French Revolution 1812 The Cartagena Manifesto Simón Bolívar 1848 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1919 Bauhaus Manifesto Walter Gropius 1924 Surrealist Manifesto André Breton 1964 First Things First 1967 The Society
At Open Forum for Inhabitat: Two sides are emerging in an effort to create the.ECO top level domain early in 2010. One side (headed by Canada-based Big Room, and backed by World Wildlife Federation and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Green Cross) sees .ECO as a labeling program, where companies earn the right to the domain in exchange for transparent
At Open Forum for Inhabitat: It turns out, money doesn’t buy happiness. In fact, as Daniel Gilbert pointed out in his book Stumbling on Happiness, humans are famously bad at predicting what will make us happy, because of logic-processing errors in our brands. So what does create the conditions for happiness? A new research project by
“If we want to impact these ecosystems on a large scale we must increasingly design for social systems, not individual needs.” – Robert Fabricant has been thinking about how the User Centered Design practice evolves out of the user needs trap and moves on to thinking about groups, communities, and neighborhoods. The New Practice of User
Thanks again, Core77. For your quick write up: MicroCycle Project – Union Square from wake on Vimeo. Microcycle Project – Union Square from wake on Vimeo. “How tightly can a product’s lifecycle be compressed… and what are the ramifications of doing this?” These are the questions Elliott Montgomery asks with his MicroCycle project–a mini manufacturing station-turned-public outreach kiosk that recently
The crowd may save us, and the crowd may also pop the balloon of high wages in creative industries, according to John Winsor writing for Business Week online.
Nice presentation from Webb of Schulze and Webb on the topic – with a few product to service concepts not yet in my collection – like Howies Hand Me Downs. The New Negroponte Switch from schulzeandwebb
Posted over at Core77 – a Wrap Up of Ezio Manzini’s talk to the NYC Eco Design Community; Bottega Altromercato, an example of social innovation from Sustainable Everday “The main activity of designers will be as social innovators,” said Ezio Manzini during an intimate conversation with o2NYC on May 6. Ezio’s talk outlined an exit