Social Good

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Ernest Beck|Case Studies

Design and Social Enterprise: A New Model for Case Studies

Not many business school case studies have considered the role of design in social innovation or social enterprise management. Yale School of Management, in collaboration with Winterhouse Institute, has created a series focusing on Design …

Phil Patton|Projects

Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Car

Review of Mitsubishi's i-MiEV electric car.

Photo by Susannah Sayler/The Canary Project|Gallery

Hot Mountain

Photo documenting the effects of climate change in Peru, by Susannah Sayler of The Canary Project.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Damned Icons

Terminal 3 sits there, empty, next to JetBlue’s so-so Terminal 5, as an object lesson about how preservation and redevelopment have to operate in tandem.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Ripple Effect Update

Update on the Ripple Effect initiative launched by IDEO, Gates Foundation and Acumen Fund to distribute fresh water in the developing world. Originally published July 30, 2009.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Simple Pleasures

In all these new parks, I feel like I am searching for atmosphere, a designed quality above and beyond the ordinary spaces for children, and I am not finding it.

Meena Kadri|Interviews

Tinkers, Hackers, Farmers, Crafters

Interview with Emeka Okafor, founder of Maker Faire Africa.

Photo by Greg Constantine|Gallery

Nubians Then and Now

Image of Nubian homes in the Kibera area of Nairobi by Greg Constantine.

William Drenttel|Report

Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”

In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a …