When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems.  But skepticism about design thinking has now begun to seep out onto the pages of business magazines and educational publications.

The closure of pubs and cuts to public services mean shared social spaces are dwindling. We want to hear where you like to go

«il bene comune non sta negli algoritmi»

Tutti pensiamo di saper ascoltare ma non è così. E ascoltare davvero gli altri è diventata un'urgenza sociale. E politica. Ecco perché

Timber towers and smart pavement: Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is sharing an early glimpse of its Toronto development.

As part of Wikibrands’ Digital Periscope study and surveys (see currently open 2018 studies Current Practices and Future Trends) , we have ranked the 30 emerging technologies that will impact…

This principle—that the more we invest concern in particularly meaningful objects, the less our world will be awash in disregarded trash—has often been used as an argument in favor of craftsmanship. People will gladly reuse expensive handmade cutlery again and again, whereas they don’t think twice before chucking out plastic forks and knives. In general, the more well-made an item is, the more care has gone into it, the more likely it is to persist. Ideally it will last a whole lifetime and even get handed down from one generation to the next.

78% of the top 50 companies in the S&P 500 are directly connected through one or more board members, a new data visualization concludes.

It’s a no-brainer that a desire for luxury goods is tied to social status—now, a new study links it to political affiliation.

Il 2017 ha visto crescere del 25% rispetto al 2016 gli investimenti in Italia in progetti di Csr. Sempre più aziende mostrano attenzione a responsabilità sociale e ambientale, a conferma del fatto che questi valori sono sempre più richiesti dagli stakeholder.

Torniamo sul tema del civic hacking, che è stato oggetto qualche mese fa, sempre su queste pagine, di una stimolante riflessione da parte di Matteo Brunati. Ne parliamo oggi con Matteo Tempestini, tra gli ideatori e promotori del progetto TerremotoCentroItalia, che anticipa in questa intervista alcune riflessioni sul rapporto tra hacking civico e smart city, e in particolare tra hacking civico e gestione delle emergenze. Un tema che il prossimo 17 ottobre sarà al centro di un workshop a ICity Lab.

È entrato in vigore il 24 agosto il Regolamento sul "dibattito pubblico". L'attuazione dell’articolo 22 (comma 2) del Codice dei contratti pubblici[1] prefigura importanti novità per la partecipazione dei cittadini nel nostro paese, ispirandosi al débat public francese e a molte esperienze già attive in diverse regioni.

SimCity is one of the greatest video game franchises of all time, if only because it demonstrates something important: Designing a city from scratch is very hard, and it’s impossible to make everyone happy all the time. That’s even more evident thanks to UC Berkeley PhD student Dave Amos, who studies urban planning and whose commentary on the game offers a hilarious criticism of both game design and planning bureaucracy.

Abbiamo incontrato Francesco Maggiore, presidente della Fondazione Dioguardi che ci ha raccontato il progetto, inaugurato nuovamente dopo 25 anni, a Milano.

Seniors whose homes have more space than they need offer a ready-made solution to Canada’s affordable housing woes, and advocates and app developers are finding ways to put that room to use

An ESG assessment needs to go beyond risk avoidance, and take into account both business model and corporate strategy. Ultimately, ESG should move toward encouraging companies to adopt a shared value approach, carefully weighing how companies are providing value to society while also providing long-term returns to their investors. So how do we start to develop a more holistic view of ESG? I don’t have all the answers, but drawing on my experience, I propose that good ESG evaluations consider the following four practices:

Service design has revolutionized our lives. Here are 15 principles for getting it right, as illustrated by some of the world’s most prominent companies.

The conventional interpretation of human-centered design wildly oversimplifies the relationship between people and technology. It’s time for a more nuanced approach, writes argodesign’s Mark Rolston.

If you want to do a user research project, it is important that you involve the relevant stakeholders in your planning. Your stakeholders can help ensure that the research you do is as relevant as possible for your project and that the people you need support from have an invested interest in you