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Allow Your Creative Flow: Finding Contemplative Space in New York

Allow Your Creative Flow Finding your own contemplative space in the center of New... Read more →

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Design for Life – The Eye Writer

Mick Ebeling Design for Life - The Eye Writer Mick Ebeling, Tempt and the... Read more →

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A Conversation with Kiran Bir Sethi, Educator & Riverside School Founder in India

In 2001, Kiran Bir Sethi founded the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. Her vision was to design a school’s curriculum that empowered children to be active in shaping their lives and to ultimately help them be confident and responsible adults.

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Designing an Ecosystem of the Good Life

Can design help break the cycle of homelessness? In the following article, Veronika Scott, the founder of the Empowerment Plan, tells us a story of how she did just that.

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A Conversation with David de Rothschild, Environmentalist and Philanthropist on his Plastiki Voyage to Save Our Oceans

Environmentalist David de Rothschild's Voyage to Save Our Oceans A Conversation with... Read more →

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A Conversation With Bruce Mau, Founder of Bruce Mau Designs on Re-thinking the Role of Design in Shaping of our Future

Bruce Mau reminds us that “design is invisible until it fails” and calls for rethinking the role of design in creating the good life and in shaping a better future.

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“Life is Good When You’re Barefoot”

“Life is Good When You’re Barefoot” VIVOBAREFOOT Shoes Designed for a Better... Read more →

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Infographic: Designing the Good Life – How Countries Compare in Economics, Education, Environmental Values and Wellbeing

How are we designing new systems that will help us remodel the way we live and learn?

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CATALYZING the Conversation: Designing The Good Life

The good life varies in its dimensions across place, time and culture. One size does not fit all. This issue of Catalyst: Strategic Design Review explores the meaning of the good life for people across our shared world.

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Designing A Good Life in Rural Rajasthan

For more than 40 years, the “Barefoot College” has been working to improve the quality of life for the poorest of the poor in rural India.

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Why Design Education Matters Now

It is difficult to define the good life in a way that honors the very different traditions of the world’s people. But we do know that the good life must be one that is sustainable for generations to come.

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A Conversation with Sergio Palleroni, Director of BaSiC Iniative on Socializing Architecture and Designing Reflective Practitioners

Over the last twenty years, BaSiC Initiative has focused its design and educational practice on 90% of the world population, which is plagued by poverty and social iniquity.