Tag: international development
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Using familiar to make sense of the unknow: from international development to design thinking
Can you kill with a pencil? Yes, and not just literally as pen(cil) truly is mightier than a sword. A mind shaking two-day crash course to design thinking by Katja Tschimmel and Sanna Marttila began with an exercise on creativity and a lesson on the importance of luck. One should strive to be creative –…
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Can Design Thinking Provide the Breakthroughs We Need to Reduce Global Poverty and Domestic Violence?
Design thinking can help us eliminate extreme poverty, save millions more lives, inform and educate better, promote human rights more widely, and protect much more of the natural world… if funding agencies are willing to accept the same levels of ambiguity and uncertainty that designer must.
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