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Startupy Curator Spotlight: Ecosystem Mapping

Featured in the Curator Spotlight portion of Issue #25 of the Startupy email newsletter. The rabbit hole I focused my curating on for this spotlight is Ecosystem Mapping. A technique near and dear to my vocational heart that I shared my perspective on along with some useful content to introduce Ecosystem Mapping to those unfamiliar with the technique.

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The best highlights, essays, tweets, podcasts, videos and projects related to Ecosystem Mapping - all in one place. Ecosystem Maps are tools that designers create to understand the relationships and dependencies between the various actors and parts that contribute to creating customer experiences.

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Plotting Design Interventions as Points of System Leverage

Authored this article for our studio's new Medium Publication to talk about how I anchored our project team adaptation of an incredibly useful systemic design framework.

Much appreciation for the support I received while writing this from my Design Institute colleagues Kate Payne (editing final draft for publication), Arotin Hartounian (hero illustration), and Lauren Gardner + Andrew Do (strategic feedback on earlier drafts).

Plotting Design Interventions as Points of System Leverage

By Adam Zeiner It's said there's no path, they're made by walking.¹ Or if you possess a map, it's not the territory.² If you don't know where you're going or navigating through, how daunting is that first step? And the next? And so on...

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With, Not For: What Designers can Learn from Social Workers when Engaging with Complex Social Systems

Co-authored this article for the 2020 School of Design and Creative Technology Journal Volume 1: Designing to End COVID-19 with Lauren Gardner and Rose Lewis. I also had some fun creating the diagrammatic illustrations used in our article.

Much appreciation for support from our Design Institute colleagues Kate Payne (editing) and Arotin Hartounian (hero illustration).

With, Not For: What Designers can Learn from Social Workers when Engaging with Complex Social...

By Rose Lewis, Lauren Gardner, Adam Zeiner Edited by Kate Payne Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2020 Journal The general notion of power - of systems of power, of power dynamics, of your professional proximity and access to leaders of institutions and public entities, and the historical background of your relationship to power - may not be what first comes to mind when you think about your role as a designer.

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Speculative Futures Chapter Toolkit

Authored on behalf of the Design Futures Initiative throughout 2019 to support new and current chapter organizers.

The Responsibility of Design: Adopting a Futures-Oriented Mindset to Support a More Responsible Design Practice

Authored this essay-style article for the 2019 School of Design and Creative Technology Journal.

Much appreciation to my Design Institute colleagues Kat Jones + Kate Payne (editing) and Arotin Hartounian (hero illustration).

The Responsibility of Design: Adopting a Futures-Oriented Mindset to Support a More Responsible...

By Adam Zeiner Reposted from UT School of Design and Creative Technologies 2019 Journal In 1968, Herbert A. Simon wrote in The Sciences of the Artificial that "the natural sci ences are concerned with how things are.... Design, on the other hand, is concerned with how things ought to be, with devising artifacts to attain goals"[15].

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Real-Time in Design

Advised the author, my friend Dom and provided light editing support.

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HOW TO RE-DESIGN THE WORLD: FOR CORONAVIRUS AND BEYOND

On behalf of the Design Institute for Health, those of us who expressed interest contributed our perspectives, notions, and inklings to a section of this think piece that our Executive Director Stacey Chang authored for Politico.

What is Strategic Design?

Served as one of many sources of inspiration for the author, my friend Jeff, by introducing him to Strategic Design via repeatedly recommending Dark Matter and Trojan Horses by Dan Hill and discussing it with him through various communications channels and even in person in Marfa back in March of 2020.

Jeff Humble on LinkedIn: Beyond Aesthetics Newsletter - The Fountain Institute

Did you know that I write a weekly newsletter called Beyond Aesthetics? → https://lnkd.in/eSR_cVz It's quick learning snippets every Wednesday morning...

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