Illustration by Bob Hansman. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Creativity What’s the mindsetCreativity as a mindset is using imagination (and some suspension of disbelief) to solve problems, address opportunities, and come up with ideas. Creativity is fundamentally tied to making things — deriving from the verb create — but itContinue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Creativity “
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Where do ideas come from?
Illustration by Bob Hansman. Learn more about our illustrators. Sometimes creativity sparks an image of wild, out of the box ideas that are totally novel and different from anything ever done before. Those can certainly be good ideas, but we’re big fans of creativity that acknowledges and recognizes that there’s rarely something new under theContinue reading “Where do ideas come from? “
Constraints, not Rules: Creativity with Bob Hansman
Illustration by Bob Hansman. Learn more about our illustrators. Constraints, not Rules: Creativity with Bob Hansman Our illustrator for this newsletter is Bob Hansman, who not only is a talented artist but also a dedicated teacher. As someone who taught drawing to architecture students for many years (including to Annemarie!), as well as art toContinue reading “Constraints, not Rules: Creativity with Bob Hansman “
Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Embracing Empathy
Illustration by Kris Russell. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Embracing Empathy What’s the mindsetEmpathy is a core human-centered mindset that pushes us to listen to, center, and attempt to understand other people’s lives and experiences. The definition of empathy is “the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with theContinue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Embracing Empathy”
Question & Answer with Ezra Kong of the Design Futures Forum
Illustration by Kris Russell. Learn more about our illustrators. Question & Answer with Ezra Kong of the Design Futures Forum In May, the Design Futures Forum will be in person in St. Louis for the first time! We sat down with Design Futures Forum executive director Ezra Kong to learn more about the Forum andContinue reading “Question & Answer with Ezra Kong of the Design Futures Forum”
Asking an Empathetic Question
Illustration by Kris Russell. Learn more about our illustrators. Asking an Empathetic Question Embracing empathy when interacting directly with other people often involves being able to ask questions that open up the conversation, building a bridge rather than creating a barrier. We have some principles for asking these questions that we practice when we’re interactingContinue reading “Asking an Empathetic Question”
Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Accepting Ambiguity
Illustration by Jasper Kipp. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Accepting Ambiguity What’s the mindsetAmbiguity arises when contexts, meanings, or futures are unclear (basically all the time!). Accepting ambiguity is recognizing this uncertainty and being okay with the not knowing, at least temporarily. When we imagine potential futures, whether in our livesContinue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Accepting Ambiguity”
How to be a Good Beginner
Illustration by Jasper Kipp. Learn more about our illustrators. How to be a Good Beginner Frequently, our work has us digging into topics that we know little about. We think of our expertise as being in process design, which means we work with clients across a wide variety of topic areas and have the greatContinue reading “How to be a Good Beginner”
Designing a Process for Change
Illustration by Jasper Kipp. Learn more about our illustrators. Designing a Process for Change While we like to say that we create products, services, environments, and other tangible things, much of what we actually design is the process of creating these things – the process of creating change. We work closely with our partners toContinue reading “Designing a Process for Change”
Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Iteration
Illustration by Alice Lee. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Iteration What’s the mindsetIteration is the approach of learning through making, and ongoing improvement along the way. It is the mindset that allows us to accept that it’s not realistic to figure everything out perfectly the first time, and that feedback andContinue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Iteration”
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