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08.03.10: Ernest Beck

Bellagio Museum Symposium: Abstract
In April 2010, 22 participants met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is an abstract summary of the final report of their discussions.
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08.03.10: William Drenttel, Julie Lasky

Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”
In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a report on their conversation.
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07.19.10: Ernest Beck

The World as Our Studio
Report on Worldstudio's hybrid business model for collaborating with for-profit and not-for-profit clients (while supporting a foundation).
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06.30.10: Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

New Visions of Home
Report on new housing models for the elderly.
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06.28.10: Meena Kadri

India's Epic Head Count
The enormous task of conducting India's 2010 census is aided by a newly designed form.
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06.10.10: Ernest Beck

Catapult Design: How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change
Catapult Design’s nonprofit model offers a new way to think about how designers can engage social innovation projects.
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06.02.10: Zara Arshad

How to Green an Embassy
Working at the British Embassy Beijing with zero budget means that even straightforward solutions, such as implementing a recycling system, pose a challenge.
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05.03.10: Roger Martin

Design Thinking Comes to the U.S. Army
Design is almost overnight the centerpiece of military doctrine and the U.S. Army has gotten design thinking quite right. The struggle to get design thinking ensconced in Army doctrine, though, is no easy feat.
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04.19.10: Jane Margolies

The Laugh Bug
Is Volkswagen's Fun Theory campaign anything more than a turbocharged marketing stunt?
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02.17.10: Jessica Helfand

Better Living Through Artistry
SEWA, a cooperative textile manufacturing company in Ahmedebad, India, is a network of self-employed women.
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02.03.10: Ernest Beck

The Cotton Club
Report on the complex, and sometimes muddled, standards for certifying organic cotton.
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01.18.10: Ernest Beck

State of Shelter
Relief organizations still rely on the same basic options for emergency housing, but new ideas are taking hold.
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10.14.09: Adam Harrison Levy

O Tannenbaum!
People are talking differently about Christmas trees this year. They’re downscaling or simplifying their annual rite.
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