LONDON, ENGLAND, UK — The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for, even with the advent of artificial intelligence. San Francisco-headquartered design consultancy IDEO brings design techniques into businesses. It breaks design thinking into seven phases: frame the question; gather inspiration; synthesize for action; generate ideas; make…
VOLTERRA, IT — Inmates at Italy’s oldest prison share why theatre performances have become essential to their rehabilitation For nearly 40 years, inmates have worked with theatre-makers as part of the Compagnia della Fortezza project. When theatre director and playwright Armando Punzo stepped inside the Volterra prison, one of Italy’s oldest jails, in 1988, he had…
WELLINGTON, NZ — “The artistic brain is critically aware and innovative and amazing and represents a kind of smartness that’s regime changing,” says Kerryn Palmer of Victoria University’s theatre department. “Theatre is the one industry that’s been dying for 4000 years, but is yet to succumb because we’re the passionate people who see the value in…