Schools of Thoughts : 3

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Enlightened Innovation

"Enlightened Innovation: 5 Keys to Promoting Thoughtful Design Leadership in Education" by Xanthe Matychak and David Morgan

Traditional business models are failing in the face of global competition, and American companies are scouring design schools for design-innovators to lead them into the twenty-first century with creative strategies. Great. But the question is, where will these young designers lead us?

Something for Nothing

Allan Chechinov poses more than a few tough questions in Something for Nothing?

Design education is forever acknowledging that any design problem comes with a set of criteria and constraints. These two players are pitted against each other, balanced, traded off. The popular triad of time/quality/price (that you can ever only have two of the three) is a fun parlor trick, but it hardly takes into account what may be the more accurate either/or paradigm at play: In design, if you get something, you give something.

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We Recommend Books

We were inspired to invite our Keynote Speaker, Peter Turchi, by his book Maps of the Imagination (designed by D.J.Stout).

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield, whose blog covers many up to the minute issues about design and ubiquitous media.

Our Keynote Speaker at Schools of Thoughts Two, Bruce Sterling, has published Shaping Things (designed by moderator Lorraine Wild and Green Dragon Press), a must read for us all who work with "gizmos". Be sure to check out the WebTakes by John Thackara and Schoenerwissen/OfCD.

MORE TO COME.