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A great article on what public schools can learn from some of the top innovating companies in the world. Below is a great video about High Tech High which embraces many of these innovative ideas in their school.
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A student just a few years older than your high school students can propose a smart design solution in her Detroit community with fashion. Check out thearticlehere.
See the results of the the finalists to a re-design a supermarket contest here.
An important part of brainstorming are the wild ideas. It is always hard for everyone to loosen up to truly think of 'wild' ideas. French illustrator, Villemard, created these beautiful drawings of his vision of the year 2000. Ideas included flying firemen and robots that assist architects. These might seem wild even for today, but if you read the article he was not too far off.
What a smart idea that's a blast from the past. Why recycle when you can re-use a design for the great purpose of creating a home. Click here for the entire article.
Designing the school day around discovery of information, connections to real world challenges are just a few of the topics IDEO's Sandy Speicher speaks about in her article.
Metropolis Magazine put out a great Q&A article on how nature can inform design. You can read a bit of the introduction paragraph below. Click here for the entire article. “We are nature.” So goes the new mantra in some design circles. And the word “biomimcry” comes up with increasing frequency. When we heard that Jane Fulton Suri, a partner and creative director at IDEO and author Thoughtless Acts? Observations on Intuitive Design, is working to reconcile nature with design, we couldn’t resist asking her a few questions.
GOOD magazine put out another great article. Here is a portion the article; click here to read the rest. "Most students have little awareness of design as its inclusion in school curricula is all too rare. To remedy that, Worldstudio and Adobe partnered to created Design Ignites Change, a program that encourages high school and college students to use design thinking and innovation to develop projects benefiting their own communities."
The New York Times put out a great article about what to do with all of your kids art work and if it is too harsh or the right thing to do when it comes to curating your kids artwork on the refrigerator. Read the article here.
No Right Brain Left Behind is challenging some of the best from the creative industry to look at the status of education in this country and how it can be improved. Below is a description of the challenge from Core 77. In conjunction with the global events coordinated for Social Media Week 2011 a group of creative agency-types have thrown down the gauntlet, challenging their peers to concept ideas to address the "creativity crisis" within the US education system over the course of the week. No Right Brain Left Behind is using this interesting media moment and giving teams of designers, agencies and consultancies an opportunity to enact some change within a local community.
