Integrated design. Second in series.

The Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit “From Within Outward” at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC celebrates his unmistakable mark on American architecture. In honor of its fiftieth anniversary of his capstone creation, the museum has on display 64 of his projects represented by drawings, videos and models. Another architect, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier also left [...]

Understanding by Design. First in a series.

Last month, I attended 2009 Global Forum of the Business as an Agent for World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University. The conference centered around 3 themes: management as design; massive innovation; along with design education practices. Design is an interesting concept: painters contend with two-dimensional design, sculptors with three-dimensional design and architects with the [...]

Geologian Thomas Berry

We have been hit with nonstop coverage of the recent deaths of celebrities Farah Fawcett, Ed McMahon and especially Michael Jackson. The fascination owes to perhaps more layers then we are even aware: celebrity the most obvious, but perhaps the role of the artist and his/her connection to inspiration, genius, beauty, truth, etc. Notably, [...]

A Culture Thing?

On the road quite a bit today so I got to listen to several public radio programs. Two seemingly unrelated programs came closer to being aligned then I ever thought possible. One was reporting on the findings from a recent study in South Africa with very disturbing findings: violent behavior as well as rapes are [...]

Global Forum 2009

Business as an Agent for World Benefit took place at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland this past week. The theme was “massive innovation” and how design can contribute to a new vision for the future. B-school deans and professors, and leading designers such as William McDonough, Peter Coughlin, IDEO, Bruce Mau were among the [...]

Financial Meltdown-where was the media?

Today’s NPR Talk of the Nation program examined whether the Financial Press missed the meltdown? David Wessel defended, economics director, defended the Wall Street Journal by saying it covered some of the signs just not enough. The reason, Wessel says that it was all so complex that everyone missed it. What is interesting is one [...]

Torture & Financial Meltdown: two sides of the same coin

Back in 2004 I was struck by a comment made in an interview by new trustees on the board of the NY Historical Society who came from the private sector.We can’t impose our ideas on them by fiat—what we’re doing that maybe hasn’t been done before is to maybe broaden the scope. Americans are ready [...]

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