Design
Frans Johansson at BIF-4
Medici Effect author talks about innovation at the convergence of risk, passion and luck.
Jason Fried: Merchant of Simplicity
37signals founder expounds on the unexpected sources of inspiration for his company.
Paola Antonelli: Revealing the Human Spirit Through Design
The MOMA senior curator gives her take on the design process and its ability to understand the increasingly complex nuances of consumer preference.
Bruce Nussbaum
Former BusinessWeek editor and now a professor of innovation and design at The New School focused on showing students how design tools, methodologies and approaches can change the world.
Design Together, Transform Together: Student Experience Lab Teams Up With Pleasant View Elementary School
Transformation is tough stuff. And no place is more in need of it than education. One of the more fruitful transformative approaches to education model innovation is blended learning. Blended learning provides a mix of different learning elements and environments - combining traditional face-to-face classroom methods with more modern technology-mediated activities. The result, when done right, is a more personalized learning experience for students.
The problem with "design thinking"
Believe in the power of design. Through it, we will chart the landscape of possibility – designing, testing and prototyping new terrain. Be a market maker rather than a share taker.
Beth Coleman
Dr. Beth Coleman believes in the power of storytelling to transform the world. She works with new technology and art to create transmedia forms of engagement. She is the director of City as Platform, Amsterdam, a Faculty Fellow at Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, as well as a professor at the Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Since 2005, Coleman has been a professor of comparative media studies and the primary investigator of the Pervasive Media lab at MIT.
Sketchmodeling with Zee Spencer
One of my favorite tools for exploring a systems model is sketchmodeling. Sketchmodeling is a way to take quickly take ideas from your head and put them into the world so that you and others can interact with them. This allows you to quickly iterate a model, generate shared understanding, and reduce the complexity of highly interconnected systems.
Gathering of Student Minds: The Art of Possibility
The Business Innovation Factory’s (BIF) is thrilled to announce a partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE). On Saturday, October 29, Team BIF and RIDE will hold a day-long, student-driven workshop to focus on solving a real-world design challenge facing educators today: how to create a student experience that enables all students to thrive.
From Idea to Concept: Student Experience Participatory Design Studio
In the spring of 2011, the Business Innovation Factory’s (BIF) Student Experience Lab and Utah State University (USU) conducted a unique experience to put students in the driver’s seat of a new kind of student-led R&D to transform education.