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d4d lab

As social designers, we work directly with people, in context—Indigenous artisans, farmers, and organizers—with cultural, social, and entrepreneurial initiatives and we explore ways design might be useful and beneficial for, with, and by people co-designing in context.
  • Kuxtal Sian Ka'an
  • Gualberto Cazanova

Journal

ODID Program Model

The office of Design, Innovation, and Development promotes design thinking for innovation and development in an interdisciplinary and...
Date :22 Jan
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Sian Ka’an Artisans

This project works to develop a culture and economy for sustainable handicrafts with the Amigos de Sian Ka’an (southern Quintana Roo)....
Date :19 Jan
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the process of empowerment

The process which enables one to gain power,authority and influence over others,institutions or society. Empowerment is probably the totality of...
Date :09 Dec
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Social Capital & Social Business: The New Definitions

by Social Edge Muhammad Yunusin his book “Creating a world without poverty” defines two possible kinds of Social Business:
Date :09 Dec
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Design for Development: Spring 2009

This course focuses on developing the skills necessary to work on complex social entrepreneurship and design research projects for social,...
Date :08 Dec
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Terminology

Agency / A philosophical concept of the capacity of an agent to act in a world; Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and...
Date :30 Nov
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making connections

It’s Wednesday (day 7). I followed up on three projects which are all going well. This trip has fostered progress and resolution.
Date :26 Nov
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reading: entrepreneurship, honey

>When Chocolate Is a Way of Life  A group of cacao farmers in Ecuador have become the world’s most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs by making...
Date :06 Nov
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space resources

LOST VALUES explores the beauty and melancholy of craft to challenge the aesthetics and function of smart fabrics and this way emphasize the...
Date :01 Nov
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Pantone Color Conversion

Great site that helps convert pantone colors to hex numbers and rgb colors so that we can use them on the web.  There is even a way to test it to...
Date :29 Oct
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