Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown

Can Creatives Help Manufacturing Reinvent Itself In America?

Manufacture New York is bringing the factory back to urban centers–and trying to create a new culture of innovation between designers, makers, and technology.

Can Creatives Help Manufacturing Reinvent Itself In America?

In A Globalized World, Fixing Problems Means Fixing Systems

When everything is connected, our solutions have to be far bigger than just solving one problem.

In A Globalized World, Fixing Problems Means Fixing Systems

Impact

This “virtual power plant” made of solar and batteries means Oakland can stop burning jet fuel

Inside the effort to map the world’s dying coral reefs from space

This podcast gives voice to working moms of all kinds—including sex workers

Creativity

The original ‘Lion King’ had a racist hyena problem. The new film fixes that, with mixed results.

This fan-made, stop-motion ‘The Shining’ took 60 hours and 10,000 LEGOs to create

This grocery store is teaching its customers sign language

Co.Design

This fascinating graph shows how life in America has changed since 2003

The quest to bring urinal culture to women

Sorry Wall-E, this is now the world’s cutest robot

Work Life

Why team-building exercises are useless (and what you should do instead)

What companies should do with the office mansplainer

This Lyft executive shares their secret recipe for keeping customers and drivers happy