We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of nine d.school project fellows for the academic year 2013-14. The early- to mid-career professionals come from sectors including education, law, financial services, disaster relief and others. This year’s d.school fellows are: Anne Gibbon, Margaret Hagan, Matt Haney, Kim Jacobson,Melissa Kline-Lee, Guido Kovalskys, Fred Leichter, Caitria O’Neill and Melissa Pelochino. Emi Kolawole is also joining the fellows program this year…
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Bruce | September 14, 2012 We are thrilled that d.school Lecturer Krista Donaldson has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Co.Design 50 this year! Krista is an engineer and Ideo alumna who leads D-Rev, a not-for-profit whose mission is to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day, through inventions such as the…
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We are thrilled to learn that Fast Company has selected d.school co-founder and Executive Director George Kembel as one of their Design 50 honorees this year! George has been a central part of the d.school since its beginning, with a passion for fundamentally transforming how we educate our children, how we lead our organizations, and…
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We lost an amazing design pioneer when Bill Moggridge passed away on September 8. Not only did Bill co-found IDEO and helm the Cooper Hewitt, Bill helped inspire and frame the earliest ideas of what the d.school might be. Many d.school faculty and students gratefully remember his mentoring, his nurturing heart, his optimism and encouragement,…
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Background on the #dgift Project This project is an immersive activity meant to give participants a full cycle through the design thinking process in as short a time as possible. The project itself gives facilitators the opportunity to touch on the fundamental values of the d.school—human-centered design, a bias towards action, and a culture of…
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Our esteemed judges have announced the following news upon completion of the d.school’s first hackathon, 48 hours of deep dives into design thinking with the purpose of bringing it to the wider world: Two pictured teams, d.canvas (Dianna Kane, Josh Schwartzman, Poyi Chen, and Katie Johnson) and Overlay.d (Brantley Beaird, Yuri de Souza, Michael Revell,…
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The 150 people who started this weekend as relative strangers as part of the d.school’s first hackathon are presenting their work live this afternoon to members of the public and a panel of expert judges and investors. We’re floored by the creativity and range of the professionals who participated, not to mention the huge potential…
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Over 36 hours into the weekend, there is still incredible energy across about a dozen diverse teams hacking away on a wide variety of projects to address this hackathon’s challenge to Bring Design Thinking to the World. After organizing together out of 125 unacquainted participants early on Friday night, the diversity in backgrounds and approaches…
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The weekend workshop HACK.d is underway with professional designers, developers, and other smart creators from as far away as Chile collaborating to bring design thinking to the world. We’re shocked and awed by the involvement of the 125 people who have come to take part in the d.school’s inaugural hackathon. First conceived of two weeks…
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