Davos Versus TED. Which Conference Has The Answers To Today’s Crisis? 06/02/09
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‘The most important, however was a small session where Hilary Cottam of Participle presented her work on designing large-scale public projects that address the major social issues of the day through social networking and without massive welfare state, government intervention. I will focus more deeply on Cottam’s use of design thinking is solving social problems in the UK and its application to the US in the future. Right now, here are her 5 core principles:
“A shift from:
Needs to Capabilities
Targeted to Open to All
Financial Focus to a Resource Focus
Centralised Institutions to Distributed Networks
Individual to Social Networks”
While the little room was packed for Hilary’s presentation, it still amount to a tiny fraction of the audience for the big discussions on economics and politics going on in the Conference Hall where silver-haired men and a few women talked about the growing crisis in 20th century terms they were familiar with.’
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