Design Thinking Use Cases: Design for the Bottom of the Pyramid
entreVersity writes: This is an amazing story. The author travels deep into India to meet women whose livelihood depends solar conductor dryers (SCDs) from S4S Technologies. Solar dryers work with everything from drying flowers for perfume, all tuber crops like ginger, even to make potato or banana chips. But who Continue Reading
Design Jam tackles water safety in the Great Lakes
By entreVersity entreVersity writes: This is a great technique to empower students learning design through a “Design Jam” focused on water safety, in this instance, in the Great Lakes of Michigan. What is a design jam, exactly? Think of it as a mini think-tank; a space to collaborate and build solutions to Continue Reading
Design Thinking Use Cases: Cradle to cradle coffee cups
entreversity writes: In the new Theory of Biosphere Entrepreneurship, McDonough and Braungart (see figure below) envision a world without waste, a world without poisons and a world in which all materials are continuously recycled. Cradle-to-cradle suggests that entrepreneurs must protect and enrich ecosystems, making them not just efficient but essentially Continue Reading
Pre-school for design thinking teaches risk-taking
An exclusive pre-school for design thinking in Singapore, inspired by Silicon Valley, is promising to teach children skills to survive the digital age. The school’s six programs are each themed after career paths, for example, an engineer, an athlete, and a chef. The programs aim to teach children the skills Continue Reading
Makerspace: DIY meets education!
Trisha Joffey is amazing. She has created a great web educational environment for teachers who want to bring Makerspace into the classroom to benefit kids. She writes: “Makerspace is not only a hackshop where you can go to learn how to use an arc welder for the afternoon. It is Continue Reading
Design Thinking Use Cases: Law
How is Design Thinking used in Law? Design thinking is a habit of mind based on mindset, perception, cognition and process that is used across the widest range of human activities to frame ill-defined yet complex (wicked) problems and solve them with outcomes such as products, services, spaces, business models, Continue Reading
Design Thinking Use Cases: Global Development Goals
How can Design Thinking help the Planet? Design thinking is a habit of mind based on mindset, perception, cognition and process that is used across the widest range of human activities to frame ill-defined yet complex (wicked) problems and solve them with outcomes such as products, services, spaces, business models, Continue Reading
Andrew Yang’s climate change plan relies on entrepreneurship
entreVersity writes: Around the world, economic growth and entrepreneurial activity are inextricably linked to global warming. Safety on Earth is slipping away.. We have been wasteful of our time and now is the last chance to preserve life on Earth as we know it – the only option is innovation Continue Reading
The War on Indigenous People is a War on the Biosphere Itself
entreversity writes: Now we are engaged in a great war on the biosphere, testing whether the human race can long endure as we know it. See Entrepreneurship as if the climate mattered. Although entrepreneurs must take a great share of the responsibility for global warming, they are also agents of Continue Reading
Will Entrepreneurs Settle the Moon?
entreversity writes: This article is an amazing trip into the futurology of entrepreneurship by Naveen Jain, founder of Moon Express. Later this year, Moon Express, a private entrepreneurial venture, will land on the moon — the first private company ever to do so. To date, only superpower nation-states have accomplished Continue Reading
