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i-Gitators in Action
Can Service Innovation (Design J) Save the World?

Gill Wildman 
Co-Founder 
Plot

Chris Downs 
Managing Partner
live|work

GK VanPatter 
Co-Founder, NextDesign Leadership Institute
Co-Founder, Humantific / UnderstandingLab

http://nextd.org/index.html

Excerpts from i-Gitators in Action:

Gill Wildman: ³Design can play a part in saving the world, but not alone,
and definitely not as the star of the play. The issues are too complex to be
John Wayne.²

Gill Wildman: ³Do service design solutions have anything to do with real
life problems? Yes. Whether we "solve" them is another thing.²

Chris Downs: ³There is too much contrary evidence there to suggest that
academia is leading anything.²
 
Chris Downs: ³Thought leadership? What does that do? Who needs it? Action
leadership, surely, is what we need.²
 
GK VanPatter: ³Part of the irony today is that ³Not invented Here² can be
found not only in corporate client organizations in need of innovation help
but in many sectors of the design industry as well.²

GK VanPatter: ³it¹s safe to say that we will not all be linking arms and
marching into a unified future. Let¹s be honest about it. The future has
become as competitive as the present day marketplace, but hey, let¹s remain
optimistic.²

NextD News

NextD Sponsors the Design with India Conference / 4-5 December 2006, New
Delhi
Organized by our friends at SonicRim and the National Institute of Design in
Ahmedabad. 
The conference will be particularly beneficial for those who are in the
process of establishing partnerships in India.
Registration is now open!
http://www.ciionline.org/events/2755/index.htm

New Job Opportunities posted on NextD JobNet
Moment 
IDEO
Humantific
http://nextd.org/06/index.html

DeFuzzing WHO Innovation Dynamics Research Launches
NextD Research in collaboration with Basadur Center for Applied Creativity
Research and Humantific / InnovationLab has launched a new innovation
dynamics research project. DeFuzzing WHO / Understanding Ourselves in the
Context of Cross-Disciplinary Innovation.
http://nextd.org/04/index.html

NextD in Madrid 
Elizabeth Pastor recently gave a talk at Madrid Design Association in Madrid
on the role of Visual Business Modeling in business innovation.
http://dimad.org/index.php

NextD in Barcelona
For Barcelona Design Week 2006, GK VanPatter will give a talk at the Museum
of Modern Art in Barcelona on November 9.
http://bcd.e-gim.net/gimmaster/ftp_bcd/bdw/news_ang.htm


NextD WorkshopONE Summer Session 2006 Feedback:

"NextD is the best articulation that I've seen of the future opportunity and
challenges for the design professions.²

³I appreciated the content, but also the opportunity to get a clearer sense
of the context...Design 3.0.²

³A comprehensive approach to articulating the future role of design.²


What is NextD?

NextDesign Leadership Institute and the next design leadership movement were
launched in 2002 by GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor as an experiment in
innovation acceleration. They wondered if it might be possible for a small
team of practicing designers to help speed the rate of adaptation, by
graduate design education, to the radical events unfolding at the leading
edge of the marketplace, that are impacting design leadership today. They
optimistically guessed that it might be possible and if it wasn¹t, finding
out seemed like interesting research! To undertake that experiment, they
created the NextD initiative, the NextDesign Leadership Institute and NextD
Journal. At the core of NextD is the belief that the traditional model of
design leadership needs to be radically reinvented to better adapt to a
radically changed marketplace. The ultimate goal of NextD is to help expand
designs¹ reach.

NextD Journal / ReReThinking Design introduced a new kind of sense-making
design business journalism. Now with thousands of subscribers in more than
forty countries NextD Journal continues to focus on delivering to readers,
authentic views into how the role of innovation leadership is changing in
the 21st century and why. While traditional design magazines promote the
values of traditional design, NextD Journal explores the skills, values and
attributes of cross-disciplinary innovation leadership in a continuously
changing world. As a free online publication, NextD Journal provides
provocative downloadable conversations that are now widely used in graduate
and post-graduate design education around the world.



 
NextD
Design is Changing! Are You?
http://www.nextd.org

NextDesign Leadership Institute
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New York, NY 10003
USA

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