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(Italian) Torino Città che Impara

Friday, March 12, 2010 15:33 No Comments

Un rapporto che illustra i risultati di uno studio sul campo della durata di un mese sull’apprendimento da parte della città di Torino

‘Torino Citta che Impara’ è la versione in Italiano della relazione ‘Torino as a Learning City‘ di Tim Campbell, Senior Fellow, Comparative Domestic Policy Program. Il Politiche Interne Comparate
(CDP – Comparative Domestic Policy) [...]

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Lessons in Learning for the Future Prosperity of Cities

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 13:32 No Comments

Marcia Caines

artwork Mario Suarez, image Cluster
Today cities are home to over half of the world’s population, and according to The United Nations Habitat report, this figure is set to reach 75% by 2050. The success or failure, growth or decline, of cities directly contributes to the overall condition of the planet and the wellbeing of [...]

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‘The Empathic Civilization’ a new book by Jeremy Rifkin

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 14:12 No Comments

Jeremy Rifkin, founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends and creator of the Third Industrial Revolution (TIR), has launched his new book The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World of Crisis on the Huffington Post with a featured blog post as well as the Table of Contents, Introduction, [...]

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Designing for the Future: From Singapore in 2050 via Copenhagen, « à la co-creation »

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:53 2 Comments

24 November 2050. Singapore. Planet Earth. ICSID Conference opening. The meta-interplanetary meeting of designers
Alok Nandi

ICSID World Design Congress 2009 Singapore and Co-Creation, Copenhagen, August 29 2009
Arnold Wasserman, the Master of Ceremonies at this unique gathering, invites the audience to cast their minds back to 2009, for a « flash-back » to how designers and experts [...]

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INDEX: design to improve life reaches another milestone

Friday, December 11, 2009 18:15 No Comments

The Danish humanitarian design program Index: Design To Improve Life, reached another important milestone on December 4 2009 when the network’s CEO Kigge Hvid took home to Copenhagen the prestigious Hong Kong Design Centre’s 2009 Design Leadership Award, confirming its position as one of the worlds fastest growing design organizations.
Kigge Hvid was the first [...]

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