Fortune.com has done a weblog. It’s a kind of commercial thing – promotion for the Fortune Innovation Forum – conference.
In fact it’s a nice blog – interesting posts, but it lack’s a conversation.
If you’re planning to go to the conference, please let me know. Maybe you’re equipped with a camcorder? If so we – here at CPH127 - would LOVE to share your recordings/interviews/what-ever with the rest of the world 
Yes – this should be recognized as an official invitation to all of you attending different conferences/events/what-you think-would-be-of-interest-to-CPH127-community to share what you record – only string attached is that it should be in the area of Design, Innovation and Leadership
While we’re on the subject of education ill share this piece of relatively old news by online standards:-)
“Hasso Plattner, co-founder of the business-process software giant SAP (SAP), is donating $35 million to fund a new design school at Stanford University. It will be housed in the Stanford School of Engineering and be called the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
This donation will further the evolution of design from an emphasis on form and style toward more sophisticated design thinking and strategy. The new design school will teach innovation by bringing together students from business, engineering, medicine, psychology, anthropology, and design to form collaborative teams that solve problems.” from BusinessWeek
Students who will enter this program will come out with a certificate in Design Thinking which sounds promising but how do you do that? As the school doesnt seem to be opened yet, i will refrain judgement but i will be watching closely…
For those of you who paid attention to the beginning of this adventure at the start of this year when I first heard about d.school, i couldnt help but smile at the structure that was presented and who set it up (practically the same bunch who set up my school 5 years ago). As a seemingly-functional model, I know from my experience at Interaction Design Ivrea that this creative collaborative work does not come easily.
What makes it work depends on the level of involvment with others and how close you are to each other not in terms of experience but in terms of working conditions. Here in Italy, they had to set the school up in the middle of nowhere, in a country that was foreign to most of us, to force us into a work and synergy that i am sure will never be replicated anywhere else but that makes us able to face any type of teamwork situation in the future.
Extreme conditions dont only work for mountain climbers Any other examples of extreme teamwork/creative conditions in or out of education?
First “Runway” introduced.
Niti and Ian had an excellent post about design and education last week. The post try to elaborate on what the future need is in the design education stratosphere. We thought that this particular discussion is SO IMPORTANT that we decided to create a RUNWAY for the conversation about exact topic.
Please join the conversation, spread the word to those you know would be interested in this dedicated topic.
And – if you, like Niti and Ian, see the potential in facilitating a RUNWAY on you own, please let us know.
The only string attached is, that the topic should be in the field of Innovation, Design and Leadership.
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You could also follow the link in the horizontal navigationbar.
In fact it’s a nice blog – interesting posts, but it lack’s a conversation.