design thinking
In 2022, I will be celebrating my 25th year as a sustainability leader, speaker, advocate, educator, author, and designer. Despite all the success and satisfaction of a career well spent, I have yet to see the larger transition to a sustainable future that I assumed would occur. How is it possible that we can be […]
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Philadelphia Design District: Where Design, Real Estate, and Economics Make for Healthy Partnerships
Coalitions and collaborations are built to facilitate positive business transformations and blossoming creative opportunities. That’s the theory behind the Philadelphia Design District (PDD), Philadelphia’s newly formed design coalition. PDD began taking shape this past spring in the heart of Old City, from 2nd and 3rd Streets and Market to Race, with ten founding businesses, primarily […]
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It has been an outstanding year! With the year wrapping up, we wanted to show off the top ten Present Value posts from 2018. With content from industry experts in economics, public policy, design, real estate, and more, we’re sure there’s something to gauge everyone’s interest. What Influences the Spread of Kitchen Incubators Our top […]
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A Q/A with Liana Dragoman Recently I chatted with Liana Dragoman, Service Design Lead and Deputy Director with the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Open Data and Digital Transformation (ODDT). While other cities around the world like Seoul, South Korea have had deputy mayors of design, the application of design thinking in public policy and social […]
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Last month, we convened our Senior Advisors to a roundtable on design thinking. Facilitated by ESI Senior Vice President Lee Huang, we discussed what design thinking is and how we could infuse it more systematically into what we do, from the inception of a project to the delivery of a product. Off the record, the […]
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On October 12, 2017 Econsult Solutions hosted, Designing organizations: Human-centered design as a tool for organizational innovation. The event, which was part of DesignPhiladelphia 2017, focused on how an organization can use the design thinking process to not only generate innovative ideas, but change its organizational culture. Moderated by design strategist and ESI Senior Advisor […]
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