On June 3rd, we celebrate World Bicycle Day. So, let’s make this day an opportunity to acknowledge why we love, celebrate, and ride bikes around the world. Here are some reasons why we should all love bikes: Bicycles are simple, affordable, and diverse. Anyone can ride them. Bicycles are a clean and environmentally sustainable means […]
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Whenever we have an idea and we want to transform it into a business or project, we must anticipate many obstacles even though it is impossible to predict them all. As much as it is impossible to establish a perfect plan like the movie “Money Heist”, we can still use simple tools that allow us
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Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship are hot terms at the moment. Why the need though to qualify “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” with “social?” A Change of Eras We are not just in an era of change, but a change of eras. The industrial age has run its course. We are currently facing the challenges created by
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Carefully review a peer’s creative assignment (2D Prototype Presentation) which are in the Dropbox folder. Write a 400-500 word peer review and upload it here to this lesson page. Your instructor will inform you which Creative Assignment/2D Prototype Presentation you are to review. In your review, make sure to address the following items: A. What
Dropbox links will be provided.
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Throughout this course, you should have been brainstorming, researching, designing, and re-designing in order to create your socio-systemic 2D Prototype. Here is where you now submit your group’s Project Diary. Your group project diary should include: Notes from your group brainstorming Your content mapping (from week 7) Any and all background research What you did
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The creation of your 2D Prototype is the main assignment for this course. It comprises 50% of your course credit. Your 2D Prototype should showcase all of the key aspects of your socio-systemic project. (For more details see the previous lesson on “Project Guidelines and Pathways.”) It is a “Creative Assignment” which means it should
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This week your main task is to keep preparing your 2D Prototype Presentations (sent as ‘Creative Assignments’) that will be uploaded so that we can all peer review each other’s work. However, a key part of this work is also getting a bigger perspective on why these types of ‘disruptive sustainable innovations’ and ‘systemic innovations’
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The following videos are resources which can help you better understand system change and structural change. Listen to at least one. Perhaps you can divide them up so each person in your team can each listen to a different one. Discuss as a group and see what insights or knowledge it can contribute towards designing
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