December 8 – 12 2020. Tamara (Carleton) and I were at the UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit [Link] representing our research group – Foresight at Stanford [Link]. We are standing for design foresight and what we are now calling creative pragmatics (in our forthcoming book – [Link]). Competencies, tools and techniques, mindsets not for predicting the…
design thinking
imagining the future – SAP’s Ideathon 2020
Today I opened and SAP University Alliances Ideathon – 21 teams around the world spending a weekend addressing critical world challenges – [Link] For future world building, I made the case for using a toolkit that we are calling creative pragmatics, a kind of next-generation design thinking.
learning theory
Magnus Hansen pointed me to this interesting summary of approaches to learning from Richard Millwood – [Link]. We were working on the introduction to our book Creativity in Complexity – a summary of 50 years of project-based experiential learning and design thinking at Stanford and Roskilde [Link].