Welcome to ADI

The Advanced Design Institute (ADi) works to facilitate a deeper and broader understanding of design as activity and culture. Design activity is the way individuals and organizations continuously create our world. Design culture provides the societal context that supports design activity. In a time of dramatic change and of increased complexity, design culture is more timely and crucial than ever. The purpose of ADi is to advance design culture through public education.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

MIT discount offer

Books published by the MIT Press are known for their distinguished authors, cutting-edge content, groundbreaking scholarship, and striking design.
Through 11:59pm, June 3rd, we are sharing our accumulated knowledge across the known universe, offering every reader within the sound of the Internet 50% off every book purchased through the MIT Press website.
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Hint: The Design Way is published by MIT Press

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

SAP book review


Book Review: The Design Way

By Gerd Waloszek, Design & Front Line Apps, SAP AG – May 21, 2013
"This review takes a personal look at Harold G. Nelson's and Erik Stolterman's book The Design Way – Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (2nd Ed.). Not having read the first edition, I will base my review solely on the second edition and also will not discuss any changes from the first to the second edition."

Monday, May 13, 2013

Reminder: Symposium abstract deadline

Reminder that May 15 is the deadline for abstracts for the Systemic Design symposium:


Relating Systems Thinking & Design 2013