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Visualized: WEF Design Council

May 18, 2012 by VisionArc

The World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils comprises 88 separate issue and region focused working groups. These groups bring together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders to develop and implement solutions to big picture challenges ranging from climate change to employment. Recently, the Global Agenda Council on Design and Innovation asked VisionArc […]

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VisionArc Brief 2010-2011

December 1, 2011 by VisionArc

Now that 2011 is just about on its way out, we wanted to take a moment to look back on some of our projects, preoccupations and ongoing initiatives- to take stock, as it were- of where VisionArc has been in the last 12 months or so, and where we hope to be going in 2012. […]

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Teiden Kensaku

July 15, 2011 by VisionArc

In the Spring of 2011 VisionArc partnered with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design to brainstorm and develop energy monitoring concepts in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Japan is the only developed country in the world where household energy consumption exceeds industrial and business use. In […]

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Design and Global Challenges

February 25, 2011 by VisionArc

In October, 2010 VisionArc collaborated with the World Economic Forum and Harvard University Graduate School of Design on a prototype for extending the Forums global dialogue format into the realm of design education and research. For the World Economic Forum at Harvard: Design and Global Challenges, a day-long event hosted within the Graduate School of […]

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