design foundations - Gregory Vigneaux

Design Thinking in Emergency Management: On Design Thinking

Folded into practice, design thinking as an awareness is envisioned to have the capacity to change how we are present with our work and how our work is present for us.

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Design Thinking for the End of the World: Slide Deck

The slide deck from my talk titled "Design Thinking for the End of the World" delivered on February 26th at the Colorado Emergency Management Conference.

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Designing Change in Emergency Management: Why emergency managers need to make history

The problem is not only that others live with risk but what they do while they live with it as well (Coppola, 2015). What is needed, then, is a fundamental change in the way people understand and act in the world around them that can comprehensively address how we live with risk.

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Designing Change in Emergency Management: What is design? Part 2.

In part 1 design was presented a process of bringing something new into the world for the purpose of changing “existing situations into preferred ones." Here in part 2, this understanding will be expanded to include a concern for what the designer designs; the outcome of a design process.

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Designing Change in Emergency Management: What is design? Part 1.

The first post in this series brought to the fore behavioral change in the field of emergency management and framed its creation as an act of design. Attention is now turned toward exploring what design is and uncovering its presence in emergency management.

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Designing Change in Emergency Management: Introduction

How can emergency management professionals create lasting behavioral change within their own organizations and the communities they serve? The following post introduces a series dedicated to establishing foundations for designing risk-driven change in everyday life.