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Posts tagged thinking
“ So where does this reality of Design fit into the discussion of Design within academia? Not well. There is a big gap between Design practitioners (at least at the top consultancies) and Design educators. The debate over doing and thinking taking place within Design Thinking is moot and meaningless in the marketplace. When design consultancies are asked to set up their own “universities” to teach design to corporate managers public leaders as IDEO and ZIBA have done, then we must ask why design schools aren’t playing that role.
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Latest Trends in Design and Innovation—And Why The Debate Over Design Thinking is Moot
“ Having spent a week in Maine exploring my own relationship to design, it was a shock to emerge from introspective consideration to a world plastered with so much…stuff. Not that I wasn’t completely immersed in design during my time at DesignInquiry, but this was something else. This was not immersion. This was an assault.
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Design Less, Think More

IDEO’s Ten Tips For Creating a 21st–Century Classroom Experience 

IDEO has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about education. The firm’s work with Ormondale Elementary School, in Portola Valley, California, helped pioneer a special “investigative-learning” curriculum that inspires students to be seekers of knowledge.