Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic

Mike Bid­dle: We can recy­cle plas­tic | Video on TED.com. Less than 10% of plas­tic trash is recy­cled com­pared to almost 90% of met­als. This is because of the mas­sive­ly com­pli­cat­ed prob­lem of find­ing and sort­ing the dif­fer­ent kinds of plas­tic. Frus­trat­ed by this waste, Mike Bid­dle has devel­oped a cheap and incred­i­bly ener­gy effi­cient […]

Recycling in Savannah

How to Moti­vate Peo­ple to Cre­ate Bet­ter Recy­cling Habits through Aware­ness, Edu­ca­tion and Con­ve­nience Overview For my final project in the Design Man­age­ment pro­gram at SCAD, I want­ed to take a clos­er look at recy­cling in Savan­nah, GA. The pur­pose of my study was to reveal a bet­ter way to encour­age and enable recy­cling for […]

Knowledge Sharing Network

Cur­rent­ly, Design Man­age­ment is rep­re­sent­ed so incon­sis­tent­ly that there is both an oppor­tu­ni­ty and a need for Design Man­agers to define our field and chart a course for the pro­fes­sion. The devel­op­ment of a cen­tral net­work enti­ty is the per­fect way to allow Design Man­agers to share their knowl­edge, projects and expe­ri­ences. This forum of […]

Creative Capacity of Social Business Models — Core77

This arti­cle shows exam­ples of inno­v­a­tive busi­ness mod­els that com­bine cre­ativ­i­ty and social respon­si­bil­i­ty: Cre­ative Capac­i­ty of Social Busi­ness Mod­els.