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The NextD Journal Archive (links below) contains downloadable versions of many NextD Journal documents from the early days of 2003 thru to today. Included are 30 + NextD Journal sensemaking conversations as well as other documents. What began as a community sensemaking intiative grew into early advocacy for recognition of the need to rethink designerly methods in the context of rising complexity.
NextD Journal readers would often tell us that we had created a new, still missing form of design related journalism focused, not on marketing spin, but rather on methods related sensemaking.
Ten+ years ahead of the complexity curve, what we were pointing out, and advocating beginning around 2003 was not always understood at the time, particularly in design education circles where defence of the status quo in methods and education was often encountered.
The arriving wave of interest in "design thinking" further postponed the acknowledgment, particularly in graduate design education that methods related change was indeed needed. Today there is finally more community understanding of the need and certainly growing interest in what is now more commonly being framed as Design for Complexity.
To better understand the history of NextD Journal and much of the community research that went into the Rethinking Design Thinking book as well as the now ongoing conversations see the documents in this archive. The archive has existed in parts on two sites; Issuu and edu for several years but we want to bring it closer to this renewed NextD Journal site.
Below are a few examples of documents in the archive:
NextD WorkshopONE at Hyperwerk, Switerland 2005
NextD Journal 2004: Understanding IDEO: GK VanPatter & Tim Brown
NextD Journal 2004: Understanding the KaosPilots, GK VanPatter & Uffe Elbaek
NextD Journal 2003: Intervals-Ideas-Initiatives, GK VanPatter & Derrick De Kerckhove
NextD Journal 2005: The Business of NEW, GK VanPatter & Larry Keeley
NextD Journal 2006: Can Service Design Save the World? GK VanPatter, Gill Wildman & Chris Downs
NextD Journal 2005: Frozen Pictures: Can Design Journalism be Reinvented? GK VanPatter & Julie Lasky
NextD Journal: 2007: IAs Unidentical Twins / An Information Architecture Transformation Story
NextD WorkshopONE: New York City, 2011
NextD Journal 2004: Understanding IIT Institute of Design: GK VanPatter & Patrick Whitney
NextD Journal 2004: Understanding Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, GK VanPatter & Andrew Davidson
Many other documents can be found in the archive!
NextD Journal and NextDesign Leadership Network are sponsored by Humantific / SenseMaking for ChangeMaking in New York City.