lonjaus : a service design consultancy Welcome to Our New School A mind mapping game for up to six people The Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme presents a raft of new challenges for many schools, not least the need to engage larger than usual groups in the planning process. The OurNewSchool game is intended to provide help. The Game was developed through a design-led project with Walker Technology College in Newcastle, a school embarking on its BSF programme. Who is the game for? The game provides a structure to workshops in school, helping staff, students, governors and members of a Local Educational Partnership and others to explore design challenges together. The Senior Leadership Team of a school would be a great at this game and it provides a context for senior manages to involve a larger number of staff in the activity of planning. What's the big idea? The idea is very simple. What do you get at the end? School days are busy and many planning meetings happen at the end of a long day making them less productive than they could be.
Anxo López González Design Manager Design | Madrid Area, Spain, ES Licenciado en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas por la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya e Ingeniero Técnico en Diseño Industrial por la Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio de Madrid. Actualmente es Resource Manager en la oficina de Madrid de Designit, una consultora internacional de diseño estratégico, con raíces escandinavas, espíritu europeo y alcance global. Como emprendedor, es el cofundador de Miudo, un singular club para compartir a través de productos y experiencias las excelencias de Galicia. Ha trabajado como consultor independiente en proyectos de estrategia, diseño y comunicación en el ámbito de la PYME, así como en el de la comunicación política y el de las instituciones públicas. En el pasado ha sido consultor asociado en XVDMC, realizando proyectos de análisis estratégico y de implantación de la gestión del diseño en empresas e instituciones interesadas en mejorar a través del diseño y la innovación.
Science News Uncommon: Consultora de innovación estratégica, negocios y servicios. Twittering classes for teachers It's Thursday evening and hundreds of teachers are engrossed in a training session. The topic is pupils using mobiles in class; more than 1,000 questions and answers are pinging back and forth. "If students text in your lesson and aren't engaged, leave the profession – you're not cutting it," says one. "The kit in their pockets is often better than school equipment," says another. "Give a pupil an encyclopaedia and they get so much knowledge. "Give them tech and wow – exponential learning," enthuses a third. The teachers – who work in schools dotted around the country, from urban academies to tiny primaries – enter and exit the training at various points. They do so without disturbing anyone. This is UKEdChat, a weekly congregation of teachers on Twitter. "The time difference made it tough to actively participate," Hill explains. "But I was keen to attract UK educators to a similar chat session, discussing subjects and policies more related to our side of the Atlantic." Fresh air
Home | Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide Niedersächsisches Institut für frühkindliche Bildung und Entwicklung - Das Institut Infographic: Every Country's #1 at Something | Co.Design David McCandless's new infographic is a masterpiece that lays out each country's individual claim to a #1 rank. These range from commodities to demographics to ecology to crime--and obviously, most of these things you'd never want to be known for being the "best" in: But collectively, it gives you a pretty phenomenal snapshot of the workings in myriad economies, countries, continents, and regions. For example, Africa in particular looks like a slapdash collection of countries with niche resource exports and barely functioning economies rife with problems such as overpopulation and disease. Further North, in Northern Europe, there are all kinds of fascinating factoids. Sweden, for example, is a powerhouse in nuclear energy; Finland, apparently, has great gender equality if the prevalence of female doctors is any indication. This is basically like looking into the workings of some super brain, cross-bred from Ken Jennings' mental junk drawers and The World Bank's databases.
Social Innovation Social innovation seeks to create transformational change in under-served, underrepresented, and disadvantaged communities worldwide. At IDEO, we use design thinking to address issues such as poverty, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, economic empowerment, access to financial services, and gender equity. Our projects involve clients in both the private and public sectors. To help them develop effective solutions, we create not only products and services, but also the entire system that supports them. This often means spending considerable time in the field, living and working with the people we’re striving to assist. This means that before introducing anything new, we figure out what really matters to the target population—and what will motivate them to accept and adopt our solution. Creating New OfferingsFrom services for agricultural cooperatives to strategies for low-cost health care We work with organizations to identify new ways to serve and support people.
OpenIDEO - How might we better connect food production and consumption? - Inspiration - Garden in a Sack Inspiration Growing your own food does not need to be intimidating or costly. A simple garden can be grown in a mere sack and can provide enough vegetables to offer some food security to a family who may not have the resources for something more elaborate. While a garden in a sack does not connect food production and consumption on a large scale, the ability to produce a portion of your own food needs is an empowering and satisfying project. For low income communities, price is a high factor in what food is purchased, and education on making smart choices with whatever amount of money available is often limited. A garden in a sack allows people in an urban area (or in any area without the land necessary for plant growth) to grow some of their own food without needing expensive equipment, extensive education, or land, making it an easy way to connect people with growing food. Join the conversation and post a comment.
Ameisenkolonien: Krabbelndes Superorgan - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Wissenschaft Sollten Außerirdische je auf der Erde landen, könnte es gut sein, dass sie uns so begrüßen: "Bringt uns zur Ameise!" Diese Ameise wäre eine Königin, vielleicht kaum größer als ein Reiskorn, aber zusammen mit ihren Kolleginnen und einer weltweiten Untertanenschar dürfte das fast das Gewicht der knapp sieben Milliarden Menschen ergeben, die heute unseren Planeten bevölkern. Dazu kommt, dass diese Königinnen in großen, hoch organisierten, von Kooperation geprägten Gesellschaften leben. Sie bauen Siedlungen, führen Kriege, betreiben Landwirtschaft und Viehzucht - und das seit mindestens 50 Millionen Jahren. Als Begleiter würde ich den Außerirdischen Mark Moffett empfehlen. In manchen tropischen Wäldern teilen sich unter Umständen viele Ameisenarten einen einzigen Baum. Oder Weberameisen. Weberameisen sind Räuber - sie jagen praktisch alle wirbellosen Tiere Mark Moffet hat mich eingeladen, dies im australischen Busch zu beobachten. Weberameisen sind Räuber.
How YouTube is popularising science | Science I have been recognised four times now. Four times! I knew you would be impressed. And what has brought me such notoriety? Is it my fancy suits, my outrageous tabloid lifestyle, or is it my world famous impression of a teapot? I am one of a growing number of science communicators on YouTube, and I know many readers could be doing the same. I'm a mathematician - and have the chalk marks to prove it - but I do not come from a family of academics. Today the profile of science communication on TV may be at an all time high. However, with the rise of new media, like YouTube, you no longer need to chase the audience. For me, the gold standard of SciComm remains The Periodic Table of Videos. This has now grown into weekly videos, including topical ones such as the chemistry of Kate Middleton's engagement ring (above). It does a great job of humanising the subject. You get to know these people and their quirks, like The Professor and his collection of periodic table ties.