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An MFA Degree For Designers Who Want To Change The World

A new MFA program at the School of Visual Arts teaches students to apply design thinking as a driver for social change.READ»

Stanford Magazine Story on the d.School: David Kelley as Founder, Jedi Master, and Cover Boy

The new Stanford Magazine just arrived and it has a fantastic story about the d.school called "Sparks Fly" and a nice sidebar on the efforts by Rich Crandall and others to teach design thinking in schools via their K-12 initiative. READ»

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Stanford d.school Proves You Really Can Design a Space for Innovation

"Space matters." That's the mantra at the Stanford d.school, where students and staffers have spent six years figuring out how to tweak an environment to make it a more fertile breeding ground for ideas. Now they're going to find ...READ»

17 Career Lessons from Ideo's David Kelley

David Kelley is well-known for his astute application of design thinking to many of life's intractable problems. Less known is that he's also a veritable Dr. Phil of good advice about life, careers, and the importance of not being a ...READ»