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Green innovation: how Local Motors is revolutionalising the way cars and bikes are designed, manufactured and sold Alan Moore, Guardian Sustainable Business 22nd May 2013 Local Motors shares its innovations and lets customers be part of the car-building process, while keeping it local. Last year, I spoke at Shanghai’s Radical Design Week about the transformational …
Quentin Harley released SCARA based “RepRap Morgan” 3D printer and its design Reprap Morgan is a concentric dual arm SCARA FDM 3D printer, designed and built by Quentin Harley. The SCARA stands for Selective Compliant Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm. Harley has been working on this project for a couple of …
Missing from all this is the OSC/M4IS2 solution. Global networks must be redesigned May 2, 2013 Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disasters. For example, today’s quick spreading of emerging epidemics is largely a result of …
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Prototyping and infrastructuring in design for social innovation During the past five years design has been recognised as a powerful innovation driver. Design methods and tools have also been applied in new fields. One of them is social innovation, which is aimed at developing new ideas and solutions in response to social needs. While different …
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Innovation & Creativity, Inspiring Others What Yahoo and Marissa Mayer did right (and wrong) By Dana Theus on March 11th, 2013 | Comments(12) If you somehow missed it, a media frenzy erupted after Yahoo announced that it will bring telecommuters home to the office. Much of the noise came from the working-mom contingent upset at …
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What Will “Truth” Mean in the Future? New technologies are changing what we can consider real. Brad Allenby Slate, 22 February 2013 EXTRACT The engineers designing our planet and working on Human 2.0 are doing a lot of highly technical things with real tissues and materials and circuits and material cycles and built things. They …
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OPEN, Force Is. Open Source Design Tools for Human Rights Activists Deji Olukotun Global Voices Advocacy, 25 January 2013 The world’s premier human rights organizations often have entire communications teams with dedicated graphic designers to celebrate their work. But not every organization can afford to have a designer. Even those organizations that do have design …
