The Design School at Stanford is doing some interesting stuff. You can find it at: http://dschool.stanford.edu/k12/index.php
The K-12 Lab started with a question: Why is it that all students start kindergarten with innate creative confidence, but few of them still have it when they graduate from high school? The lab’s work centers on [...]
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Would you be willing to walk 30 yards to [...]
The Gulf oil spill, is at the heart of the matter, a design flaw. I’m not alluding to BP’s oil extraction technology either. Certainly, it had an important role to play but it’s not the whole story, or even a central part of it. The story is bigger. And like most [...]
We need a new approach to design. Schools need to rethink standard engineering practices that rely on huge energy inputs, toxic substances, high pressures, excessive heat, overuse of materials and noise pollution. The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster is a byproduct of the kind of design and engineering practices that don’t work well on planet with [...]
“If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… How would I be? What would I do?”
-Buckminster Fuller
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo.
Believing that an economy’s health has little to do with the creation of value or the avoidance of waste, we continue spending tax money to promote the kind of bad design that has been the hallmark of Detroit for way too long. Throwing money at moribund corporations will not change the laws of physics; it [...]
Wasting some time on current.tv, I bumped into a video about Kite Aerial Photography (KAP). Still having three weeks of summer vacation left and access to a boatload of tools, I decided to try to build a kite and a KAP rig. (The rig holds, points and shoots the camera.)
The interesting thing about diy projects [...]
While many schools are proud to announce that they recycle and that recycling has become part of the curriculum, how many are exploring the issue at a deeper level? How many are asking: “Why do we have garbage? Is garbage inevitable? What are its costs?” Most schools, through their lack of curriculum, do not address [...]
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