The early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic challenged healthcare organisations to rethink how to provide care and deal with their infrastructure differently. Hospitals were forced to amend the use and organisation of their buildings at very short notice in order to separate Covid from non-Covid patients
Transport: general interest
Children are the future, but we often ignore their opinions and ideas with the excuse that they are too young to understand the world. Especially in the process of caretaking, adults often disregard the importance of the child’s agency.
The connection between sustainability and the future has its roots in the early days of environmental movements. The report ‘The Limits to Growth’ (Meadows et al., 1974) highlights how sustainable action implies wide-ranging, systemic considerations and forward-looking thinking. This is also reflected in the definition of Sustainable Development provided in the Report ‘Our Common Futur…
Information Architecture (IA) is a digital design process constituting the structural design of shared information environments (originally websites and databases) through organising, labelling, and navigation systems
The sketch plays an essential role in different disciplines and industries, not only to visualize the ideas of designers and professionals but also to promote innovation and increase opportunities for reflection
This article proposes the basis of an integral design project management approach as a strategy to empower transformative processes. It is believed that in a context of humanitarian crisis it is vital and urgent to think of design guided by spirituality, and this as a means, facilitator of transformative processes to favor the recovery, flourishing and continuity of life
In this paper, we discuss and challenge design thinking as a process model. Though initially intended as a process for solving wicked problems, including inequality, environmental issues and poverty, focus in the later years appears to have been mainly on development for growth. Faced with the emergent need for green transition and connectivity in times of disruption and conflict, new way…
Art & Design schools, coming into the 21 century realized the growing need to keep up with advancing technologies, the global consumer markets, and especially how people are learning. The global pandemic served an inevitable disruption across all industries. It was necessary to adapt and figure out ‘Hybrid’ learning methods
Many of the challenges especially those associated with sustainability and conservation are indeterminate and wicked requiring the transcendence of typical disciplinary domains. This is both in terms of the teams and individuals associated with the solution development. The solutions themselves also need to be adaptable and open-ended