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Updated on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 8:25PM by
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Updated on Monday, August 8, 2011 at 12:42PM by
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Social Mapping for Social Change from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.
This week at at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, PopTech brought together three speakers (and a smart audience in this city of news aggregators and social good organizations) for a special salon event on the current and future impact of social mapping tools.
"Designer vs. Dinosaur" by Lillian (6) and Peter (40)
Robert "Fabi G" Fabricant is inspiring jealousy (in me) by being in East Africa, blogging, and hobnobbing with the globally challenged superheroes and villains at the World Economic Forum.
His observations in his Fast Company post examine the long shadow cast by the rise of Design Thinking.
Specifically, Fabricant calls out the dirty little secret that designers--while clever, innovative and unafraid of funky footwear--don't actually know how to get stuff done within complex systems.