ALT Book cover of the new monograph, Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World, by Alison J. Clarke and forthcoming in March 2021 by MIT Press. The cover is a black and white period photograph of Victor Papanek dressed in a shirt and tie, with characteristic eyeglasses and lit cigarette, surrounded by various sizes of tetrahedra models hanging from the ceiling and walls.
Juicy panel coming up, brief presentation from each panelist then discussion #outsidetheboxqatar Cracking presentation from Priya Prakash, Design for Social Change raiding the critical points of ethics and human intelligence now not later - there is no later #SDG11#SDG12#SDG13
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
*Cornell University Lecture, 1964*
.@GitaGopinath on the global economy: There are tentative signs of stabilization but the balance of risks remains on the downside. What should policymakers do to sustain economic growth? ow.ly/wZui50xXA5t
Round table with @here CEO! Working on a story about what really makes data valuable! HERE is big on democratizing data, they want to be the "NASDAQ of location data" #CES2020
Closing comments come from Cytora CEO @Richardghartley: Data is at the core of being an effective tech enabled insurance company. Insurers need to update their data, aggregate it and make the best possible decisions in a flywheel #CytoraSummit2019