Comments on: Design Thinking in Philanthropy http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:42:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Stannard-Stockton http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6592 Sean Stannard-Stockton Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:14:33 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy#comment-6592 Thanks Tronn, keep us posted on your design thinking work! Thanks Tronn, keep us posted on your design thinking work!

]]> By: Tronn Moller http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6581 Tronn Moller Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:30:57 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy#comment-6581 Hi Sean! I ran across the article in Fast Company also. It helped me out a lot. I am consultant & coach with community and faith based organizations in the US Gulf region that were impacted by the recent hurricanes. Partnering with them to transition from Recovery to Relief to Community Development. The transitons are moving slowly, but this article helped me think about new ways and approaches. So, if you hear about "Design Thinking in Disaster Recovery" or "Design Thinking in Community Development". Its that guy Tronn from the Gulf region exploring. I'll keep you posted. Hi Sean! I ran across the article in Fast Company also. It helped me out a lot. I am consultant & coach with community and faith based organizations in the US Gulf region that were impacted by the recent hurricanes. Partnering with them to transition from Recovery to Relief to Community Development. The transitons are moving slowly, but this article helped me think about new ways and approaches.
So, if you hear about “Design Thinking in Disaster Recovery” or “Design Thinking in Community Development”. Its that guy Tronn from the Gulf region exploring. I’ll keep you posted.

]]> By: Sean Stannard-Stockton http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6364 Sean Stannard-Stockton Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:41:28 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy#comment-6364 Christine, thanks for the reading list! Those all look great. Great point Nathaniel. We can call it "results based philanthropy" or just "doing what seems to actually work instead of what we think should work"! Christine, thanks for the reading list! Those all look great.

Great point Nathaniel. We can call it “results based philanthropy” or just “doing what seems to actually work instead of what we think should work”!

]]> By: Nathaniel http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6360 Nathaniel Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:11:31 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy#comment-6360 Another great post Sean. This is the connection that has my girlfriend Emily so excited about the design world. One of the things I think is most valuable as a shared "design thinking" perspective is the focus on anthropology. IDEO doesn't sit in the lab, they go to the places and people for whom they're trying to build services and products and learn how they live their lives. They don't problem solve first, they see how they can integrate with current behavior, even if the goal is behavior shift. The "Keep the Change" Bank of America program is a great example. Another great post Sean.

This is the connection that has my girlfriend Emily so excited about the design world.

One of the things I think is most valuable as a shared “design thinking” perspective is the focus on anthropology. IDEO doesn’t sit in the lab, they go to the places and people for whom they’re trying to build services and products and learn how they live their lives. They don’t problem solve first, they see how they can integrate with current behavior, even if the goal is behavior shift. The “Keep the Change” Bank of America program is a great example.

]]> By: Christine Egger http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6351 Christine Egger Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:47:51 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/design-thinking-in-philanthropy#comment-6351 Sean, Kind of scary how our research-paths keep overlapping! This is something I've been digging into lately. I'm especially interested in incorporating an understanding of the complexity sciences into the "design thinking + philanthropy" mix. Some recent finds to add to your research: @sinatraj (Ashoka's Joseph Sinatra) http://sinatraj.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/the-power-of-design-thinking/ Joe may have scooped you yesterday, but lots of previous thinking on this: @openp2pdesign http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/archives/835 @juneholley 2/22 and 2/24 posts on philanthropy and networks: http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/ @p2173 Yet again, Lucy got a headstart on us all a full year ago: http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/2008/01/davos-collaborative-innovation.html Acumen, as described in this 2007 piece from BusinessWeek: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_11/b4025405.htm Googling "design thinking" and "philanthropy" unearths many more. Again, though, the key is where design thinkers go when they're exploring new ways to approach philanthropy-as-design. IMHO we need to fold network theory, complexity theories, behavioral and cognitive theories -- all that stuff -- into the mix. Not as an alternative to other theories (i.e. philanthropy-as-linear-problem-solving) but as a complement, because the context of social/economic/political settings demands both. Christine Egger Social Actions Sean,

Kind of scary how our research-paths keep overlapping! This is something I’ve been digging into lately. I’m especially interested in incorporating an understanding of the complexity sciences into the “design thinking + philanthropy” mix.

Some recent finds to add to your research:

@sinatraj (Ashoka’s Joseph Sinatra)
http://sinatraj.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/the-power-of-design-thinking/

Joe may have scooped you yesterday, but lots of previous thinking on this:

@openp2pdesign
http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/archives/835

@juneholley
2/22 and 2/24 posts on philanthropy and networks:
http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/

@p2173
Yet again, Lucy got a headstart on us all a full year ago:
http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/2008/01/davos-collaborative-innovation.html

Acumen, as described in this 2007 piece from BusinessWeek:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_11/b4025405.htm

Googling “design thinking” and “philanthropy” unearths many more.

Again, though, the key is where design thinkers go when they’re exploring new ways to approach philanthropy-as-design. IMHO we need to fold network theory, complexity theories, behavioral and cognitive theories — all that stuff — into the mix. Not as an alternative to other theories (i.e. philanthropy-as-linear-problem-solving) but as a complement, because the context of social/economic/political settings demands both.

Christine Egger
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