WIK*D Design Thinking for Social Change·Jul 24, 2021Farming in a sort-of-wild backyardIt is a strange kind of voyeurism watching the food you grow advance to producing edible things. I look closely every day. My garden boots…
WIK*D Design Thinking for Social Change·Nov 2, 2019How Big is the Space Between Us?There is something inside us that we believe when it tells us that someone is “less than” we are —an “other” — not to be trusted, spoken…
WIK*D Design Thinking for Social Change·Apr 11, 2019A tale of two cities: homelessness and belonging in Maple Ridge, BC and Oakland, CAI am in Oakland, California this week for a conference called Othering and Belonging. It’s put on by the Haas Institute for a Fair and…
WIK*D Design Thinking for Social Change·Nov 24, 2018Connection. What does it actually mean? How would it work?WTF does connection mean? And why do people in my community want to make it happen? How do they define it?
WIK*D Design Thinking for Social Change·Nov 22, 2018Refining the Art of Empowering a Community to Share its StoriesUsing Design Thinking tools to help a disparate group of people to share a collective story can be a messy business.
