Can Design Save the World?
summary
Design thinking gets applied to concrete problems: a Google Ventures five-day sprint rethinks how the Disaster Emergency Committee operates, helping the team prototype new fundraising and distribution flows; the DEC still raises £54 million in two weeks on major appeals. The world faces 65+ million displaced people, rising climate tipping points and plastic-driven extinctions. Frugal innovation, B‑Corps, DataKind volunteers and low-cost cataract hospitals show what tools scale — and ethics failures like Bell Pottinger show what to refuse.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:45Creating a shared vision
- 3:18Reality of our situation
- 6:00Manmade disasters
- 7:48How do we feel
- 10:00Existential threats
- 12:37Plastic
- 13:09Signs of progress
- 16:07CocaCola
- 19:32Builtin Optimism
- 26:29Copenhagen Initiative
- 27:34Culture Jamming
- 28:59Design Sprints
- 33:21Work with charities
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