Most people have fully integrated their mobiles in their everyday life nowadays and would have a hard time imagining how to organize their social circles without it. Yet, it is not the mobile that sets the norm for how social life is organized, it’s still people who do that. Therefore companies like T-Mobile can learn a lot from how people actually organize their social life a broad sense (as opposed to how people use their phones) when they want to develop new concepts for mobile internet. Spur and STBY did fieldwork in Berlin and Tokyo and…
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GOOD’11
Reach are organising their first ever conference, "The Great Outdoors of Design", this September. It's being held in conjunction with London Design Week, and will offer a behind-the-scenes look at two themes which are right at the heart of Design Research:
Firstly, we’ll be looking at how design and research can be brought closer together. This will cover issues like organisational management, data visualisations, and how the two disciplines can each be used to facilitate the other.
The second theme builds on this in order to explore what actually happens “when global meets local”. Reach partners from as far afield as Brazil, China, and Japan will be sharing their insights into issues such as how specific local circumstances can affect global strategic shifts.
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Healthy Region Cuneo
The Italian region of Cuneo is transforming its health system and wanted to identify propositions for sustainable innovation based on local needs and harnessing local resources.
Fuelfor created an active collaboration between Ezio Manzini and the Politecnico di Milano, Bruce Mau Design Chicago and local healthcare stakeholders to address issues around Obesity, Rehabilitation and Access to Care….
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Spur – Indri Tulusan and Fumiko Ichikawa (principals) – Tokyo (JP)
Indri Tulusan and Fumiko Ichikawa are a small specialist team of service innovators and user experience designers. They are based in Tokyo and have worked as innovation consultants for large corporations such as T-Mobile International, Nokia, Hewlett Packard, IDEO and many others.
Indri and Fumiko met while working on global …