Self-Care for Caregivers

As a caregiver, are you living a life by default? Are you doing everything for your loved one behind the scenes while depleting yourself physically, emotionally and financially? You are not alone. This workshop invites you, the caregiver, to journey from a life by default to a life by design by leveraging self-care

Dressing by Design: Your Accessories

Accessories belong in every outfit you wear. You cannot escape them. And you have a key to their successful use. You fix your new hat, adjust the strand of pearls, and take a last look at your hemline. You like what you see. Everything seems to be just as you planned it. Your figure, your personality, the time, the place, the occasion, the dress and your accessories all seem to fit together. You have dressed by design. You are pleased with yourself, and off you go

Starting to Stay - Advice to New NGOs and the Donors who will Support Them: How can we create a roadmap for NGOs to develop a sustainable financial model?

This roadmap for NGOs, to help them develop a sustainable financial model along with solid suggestions for setting up a project that will last, was developed by a group of NGOs who hale from eight countries in the Middle East and who are among the winners of the Stars Foundation Impact Award for 2015 that came together in Amman, Jordan for a workshop supported by the Stars Foundation as part of our award package. The advices you will find here stem from 100 years of collective experience and aim at helping donors and funders choose their recipients.

Look Into My Eyes

Freddie Yauner, a lecturer in Design for Industry, believes that design can engage, inform and make complex concepts accessible. Through thought provoking projects and installations which have exhibited in New York, Paris and London, Freddie uses critical design to challenge convention and encourage debate. Utilising this approach, Freddie, teamed up with typographer and graphic designer Paul Robson, also from our school and Cathy John, a freelance writer to create their unique publication - Look into my Eyes. Through combined expertise Look into my Eyes was created, a book that explores the labyrinth of decisions facing MS patients from day one of their diagnosis and examines the impact each of these decisions could have on their day to day lives. Look into my Eyes was created as part of a wider programme of initiatives that use real life experiences and interaction design to place audiences firmly in the shoes of an MSer, with the aim of increasing understanding and acceptance of MS for patients, carers and health professionals alike

Participatory Pattern Workshops Resource Kit

Resource KitThis document describes the methodology that has emerged from a series of workshops we have facilitated over several years. These workshops brought together practitioners from a wide range of fields and engaged them in intense conversations about issues regarding technology and education. Such conversations are rooted in participants’ personal experiences, driven by the problems they have overcome, and aimed at collaborative articulation of their design knowledge; knowledge of how to get things done. We call these workshops Collaborative Reflection Workshops. Our process goes beyond a single workshop. Over the years, we have identified a structure of three consecutive workshops; a Design Narratives Workshop, a Pattern Mining Workshop and a Design scenarios Workshop. Together, these form what we call the Participatory Patterns Workshops framework. If you are about to participate in such a workshop, this document will tell you what to expect and how to maximise your benefits from the event. If you would like to run such a workshop (or series of workshops) yourself, this document should give you a good starting point for their design. You will still need to adapt the framework for your own needs and circumstances, and we will be happy to assist you in doing that. Everything presented here is a reflection of work in progress. If you find this document useful, please check for new versions. If you find some mistakes or gaps, please let us know. If you run a workshop, please share your experience and insight with us

31st Annual African American Commencement, 2013

31st Annual African American Commencement Black Grad: Living the Legacy. The 2013 African American Commencement ceremony was held on Sunday, May 26, 2013 in the Morris Dailey Auditorium at San Jose State University.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/blackgrad/1005/thumbnail.jp

31st Annual African American Commencement, 2013

31st Annual African American Commencement Black Grad: Living the Legacy. The 2013 African American Commencement ceremony was held on Sunday, May 26, 2013 in the Morris Dailey Auditorium at San Jose State University.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/blackgrad/1005/thumbnail.jp

The Cowl - v.83 - n.6 - Oct 18, 2018

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 83 - No. 6 - October 18, 2018. 24 pages

New Spectacles for Juliette: Values and Ethics for Creative Business

This is the third book in an on-going series published by Nottingham Creative Network which was established in 2006 as a re-incarnation of Creative Collaborations which was established in 2003. Both incarnations offer(ed) professional and business development advice, support, training and networking opportunities made relevant for the specific and sometimes non-standard ways that creative businesses operate and exchange. This series of books occupies a cross-over space between broad conceptual debates, creativity itself, ideas for creative business and concrete advice for professional development. The first in this series is entitled Fish, Horses and Other Animals; Professional and Business Development for the Creative Ecology and tries to offer some ideas about understanding and engaging with informal creative business networks. The second, Soul Food, and Music: Research and Innovation for Creative Business explores ways to consolidate research for creative business and use it for thinking about innovation. As you will see, this third book continues the theme of professional and business development for the specifics of creative business by introducing questions of values and ethics into our broader on-going discussion