HUGE THANKS to our subscribers around the world who have been supportive of the NextD Futures adventure from 2002 to 2008. It has been a great adventure that we have been able to share with thousands of subscribers in forty countries.
Thanks to all NextD Journal conversation contributors!
Min Basadur, Tim Brown, Richard J. Boland, Ralph Bruder, Jamais Cascio, Fred Collopy, Jeff Conklin, Andrew Davidson, Derrick De Kerckhove, Chris Downs, Anders Drejer, Uffe Elbæk, Ken Friedman, Bob Goodman, Malcolm Gladwell, John Chris Jones, Peter Jones, Lorraine Justice, Larry Keeley, David Kelley, Julie Lasky, Peter Merholz, Claudio Moderini, Clement Mok, Harold G. Nelson, Eric Reiss, William Tate, Liz Sanders, Greg Van Alstyne, Bettina von Stamm, Patrick Whitney, Gill Wildman, Richard Saul Wurman.
Thanks to all Special Issue contributors!
Leslie Alfin, Chris Arnold, Jaime Barrett, Kristian Bengtsson, Thomas S. Bley, Mark Breitenberg, Richard Buchanan, Nate Burgos, Alex Cheek, Sir George Cox, Geoff Crook, Uday Dandavate, Michael Erlhoff , Shelley Evenson, Tony Fry, Claire Hartten, Stefan Holmlid, Hans Kaspar Hugentobler, Adam Kallish, George Kembel, Ellen Lupton, Martin Mangold, Neal Moore, Nicola Morelli, Paul J. Nini, Eric Niu, Thomas Noller, Zachary Jean Paradis, Elizabeth Pastor, Brett Patching, Tiiu Poldma, Alun Price, Peter Schreck, Birgit H. Jevnaker, MP Ranjan, Jørgen Rasmussen, Dan Roam, Jean Schneider, Michelle Siegel, David Sless, Loretta Staples , Gunnar Swanson, Cameron Tonkinwise, John Thackara, William Tschumy, Christopher Vice, Anne-Marie Willis, Gill Wildman.
GK VanPatter
Founding Editor
NextD Journal
ReReThinking Design
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What global subscribers are saying about NextD Journal.
“Design is changing and there is one organization that has perhaps contributed most in the past few years in mapping this change and in building tools to cope with the change that they call Design 1.0, Design 2.0 and now Design 3.0. This is the NextD Leadership Institute in New York and through the NextD Journal as well as the series of NextD Workshops they have been spreading the good word about the considerable change that is being seen by some of us today at the leading edge of design action across the world. Their website, NextD.org and their inspiring online Journal and pdf download (all for free) has been a source of great strength for my students who were often perplexed when confronted by the complexities of their design challenges in India... Great resource, and we wish that there were more like this one around....Can [NextD’s] message offer a direction for design thinking in India?”
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Faculty of Design
National Institute of Design (India)
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Design Thinking Digest (USA)
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Man & Systems (Germany)
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Dr. Prof Lorraine Justice
Swire Chair & Head of the School of Design
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/welcome/index.html
"NextD and the NextDesign Leadership Institute have integrated the three
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institutions, the practitioners and the press. Their work transcends the
sometimes limited and self-fulfilling reason for being of each of these
components and delivers a path for action not just understanding. The
challenges are not insignificant, but the rewards are transformational
Design 3.0 is the present and future of our practice."
Bill Hill
Chairman & Founder
MetaDesign (USA)
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“When you begin thinking about design beyond the limitations of corporate identities and Web sites,
the problems you can solve and impact you can make changes from miniscule to global.
Welcome to what NextD (NextDesign Leadership Institute) calls Design 3.0.”
Michael Nolan
PeachPitCommons.com (USA)
http://www.peachpitcommons.com/?p=308
“…the most relevant (and tirelessly generous) voice in design discourse today.”
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Chair, Department of Communication Design (USA)
Herron School of Art & Design
http://www.herron.iupui.edu/mfavc/index.html
“…one of the central voices, when it comes to design and innovation in the world today”
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Chairman, The KaosPilots (Denmark)
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“I am currently implementing a new Design course at high school level in Western Australia and am using NextD as a resource. The NextD website and Mindscapes are powerful tools that show teachers how design can relate to the bigger picture.”
Alun Price
Project Officer
Design
Western Australian Curriculum Council (Australia)
http://www.curriculum.wa.edu.au/
NextD Journal FAQs
Are these interviews?
No! These are not interviews! We are aware of the typical short question and long answer protocol model of interviews. If you are wondering why some of our own dialogue is as long as that of our guests its because these are conversations not interviews. We have no interest in trying to be blog-like or interview-like. There are hundreds of other sites where that kind of material can be found. Caution: This might be a form of original content that you have not seen before. Don’t expect interview protocols since these are not interviews. Please note that some conversations have taken six months to construct as everyone involved is extremely busy. They are intended to be authentic, imperfect and often incomplete as the issues being discussed are often fuzzy and complex.
What is the purpose of the conversations?
NextD Journal conversations are intended to stimulate thinking about issues related to the present and future of next design innovation leadership in the 21st century.
What am I looking at?
Consider what you are reading to be global design leadership research that we are sharing back with the global community. We have subscribers in India, China, Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom and many other countries. Readers around the world use NextD Journal materials in all kinds of constructive ways including in graduate school reading and discussion assignments.
Can I listen to conversations?
Yes! In a way. Some readers tell us they use the voice reader on their Macs to read/listen to NextD Journal conversations. You can find it under System Preferences/Speech/Spoken User Interface. If you like to be read to, this is ideal even if it is a computerized voice.
Are these conversations free?
Yes! Our corporate sponsor Humantific provides funding for the site and for the considerable work of constructing all the material that is downloadable for free on this site including all the NextD Journal conversations.
Can I suggest a thought leader?
Yes. Send us an email to journal (at) nextd (dot) org
NextD Journal Background
When we created NextD Journal in 2002 we had in mind the degree of change underway in the marketplace. As we looked across the many industry publications, it seemed to us that although several were being cleverly repackaged, most still remained steadfastly focused on looking at the world through the lens of traditional design, promoting its values and practices. Most were still talking with the same old crowd about the same old issues.
We deeply wanted to create a different kind of conversation with a much wider group of multidisciplinary people.
Forty years ago Charles Eames was asked a now famous question: What are the boundaries of design? His infamous response: What are the boundaries of problems?
As we began conceptualizing the NextD initiative, we focused around two hypothetical follow-up questions: How have the boundaries of challenges (for clients, for the world) changed? How is that change impacting the concept of design leadership today? There-in lies the focus of the exploration that you will find in this Journal.
While NextD is most definitely a proDesign initiative, we also wanted to chart new territory by being realistic about the many challenges facing design leadership and graduate design education today.
Without a substantial rethink of what it will mean to be a design leader in the 21st century, without acknowledging that new skills and tools are needed, it is unlikely that design will achieve the kind of future that we all want it to have, the kind of future it deserves. NextD Journal will be actively exploring how best to start creating paths to that future NOW.
New conversations will be added as the NextD journey unfolds.
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