In the past few years, there has been an unprecedented surge of interest in the field of design for social impact, or as it has become known – social design. Creative professionals are looking for ways in which to incorporate more meaningful social change work into their practices. Colleges and universities across the country are responding to student demand that [...]
by Hala Malak More designers are becoming interested in projects to better society. Design for social change is the new hot thing. Many want to make a difference and better the world, but there is still no set doctrine for this field. A plethora of successful and less successful initiatives are afoot. Change is needed at all levels but before [...]
Please join us for this year’s celebration of World Usability Day presented by the New York City Usability Professional’s Association. This year’s topic is Designing for Social Change. Bloomberg, our generous corporate sponsor, will host the event at their New York Headquarters. November 10, 2011 6:00 – 9:00 pm Come hear an inspiring panel of visionaries who are using digital [...]
Led by three IMPACT! students (Ana, Nathalia, and Bess), the business enhancement project entitled “¡Revive! Port Richmond, store by store” took place this weekend in Port Richmond, Staten Island. These 12 lovely people donated their Saturday afternoon to revamp a storefront on the main business corridor of Port Richmond in order to demonstrate the power of strong determination, a bucket [...]
Yesterday Bess, Nathalia and I had the big event for our project ¡Revive! Port Richmond. ¡Revive! basically promotes improving the storefronts of Port Richmond Av. (Staten Island) to bring people together, strengthen safety and welcome shoppers. We chose a store and set a date (yesterday) and improved its storefront to make a buzz and make the neighbors wonder what was [...]
In a few days we’ll be in the last week of the summer design residency and it’s been a whirlwind of ahhhh’s! Design thinking on ideas… projects… presentations — I’ve gotten a chance to meet and listen in on a lot of cool projects from social innovators and entrepreneurs from all across the borders. It’s been truly inspiring. I came [...]
Please Join Us for the 2011 Impact! Presentations _____________________________________________ SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Team Project Presentations 10:00 am – 12:00 noon Focusing on economic and community development for: Brooklyn: Southwest Brooklyn IDC Manhattan: Lower East Side Business Improvement District Queens: East River Development Alliance Staten Island: Northfield Community LDC Big Idea Project Presentations 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Entrepreneurial projects to improve [...]
Most every day at Impact! is fun and inspiring in one way or another, but this week was especially chock-full of excitement. Not only did we successfully present our Team Project ideas to our clients, we had a pizza-party-movie-night, AND we got to spend two class sessions with Lee Davis. The man behind NESsT taught us the ins-and-outs of social [...]
On the first week of this intensive program*, Michael Blakeney’s assignment was to build a Relationships Map. Since this could be a lifetime project, I started doing mine. It resulted to be a good exercise to see my 451 Facebook “friends”, 62 LinkedIn connections and 64 Twitter followers/followed from a new perspective. I am not a PR person by nature, [...]
A take-away coffee is a cherished morning ritual New Yorkers and Melbournians have in common but it’s one that has a negative impact on our environment through the waste created by non-recyclable disposable cups. In 2007 Melbourne brother and sister team Abigail Forsyth and Jamie Forsyth designed a solution to this social problem, the KeepCup, a stylish, reusable, customizable coffee [...]
