When you think of design and design thinkers, do you visualize professional designers and engineers creating new products? Is it difficult to imagine yourself in that group? In fact, design thinking is not only about professional designers creating innovative products. Design
Visual thinking can sometimes be better than words when brainstorming, asking questions and connecting ideas previously thought to be unconnectable. And mind mapping makes visual thinking come alive. The old saying, “a photo is worth a thousand words” is certainly
Knowledge Without Borders™ used design thinking for social good to implement a user-centered solution for a school in a poor district of Lima, Peru. For several years I represented Knowledge Without Borders™ in a philanthropic project at the Madre Admirable
Design thinking is a dynamic and fluid approach to problem solving that has captured the imagination of innovators in education and philanthropy, as well as entrepreneurs around the globe. Originally focused on the exclusive domain of engineering, design thinking has
Located on Istanbul’s Asian side of the Bosphorus Strait, Kadiköy is a bustling municipality with a diverse population of more than 500,000 professionals, artists, workers and their families. Its street markets are stocked with fresh fish, fruit and vegetables, Turkish
What if new teachers entered the classroom already connected to a network of teacher mentors? The bumpy road all new teachers travel during the first year of teaching suddenly becomes so much smoother when support and advice replace isolation
Would you expect to see a patent held by Michael Jackson for anti-gravity shoes at the National Archives in Washington, DC? An exhibit, “Making the Mark: Stories through Signatures,” features selected signatures complemented by documents and artifacts to illustrate the
The realization that there is no right answer led college graduate, Sam Porter, to understand the power of applied learning as a young entrepreneur. He talked to Knowledge Without Borders™ about his innovative and entrepreneurial project at Brandeis and its impact
In her book, Giving 2.0: Transforming Your Giving and Our World (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen gives us a guided tour of the 21st century philanthropic landscape. Arrillaga-Andreessen does not focus on “traditional” giving models associated with large foundations where the
Imagine a future where tiny robots carry medicine directly to a cancer tumor in the body, completely destroying the tumor with no toxic side effects. That is the promise of nanotechnology as applied to medicine and biotechnology — a new
