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Peter Schoonmaker is Designing for the Future

impactmania — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:04:13 +0000

I want to design from the future, and for the students to design with their heads in 2050. What would it be like to time travel back to 2018, 2020, 2025 from that future to anticipate the needs and understand resources trends, so that we can all live well together long into the future.

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Tomáš Sedláček: An Economic System Aligned with our Moral Feelings

impactmania — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:58:32 +0000

Tomáš Sedláček, economist and university lecturer, is known for the bestseller Economics of Good and Evil, published by the Oxford University Press (2011). He provides insight to why people voted for Trump, our changing civilization, and why work will be leisure.

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Amir Abo-Shaeer: Project-Based Education for the Future

impactmania — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:58:32 +0000

Amir Abo-Shaeer, Founder of Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy and the first high school MacArthur Fellow teacher, discusses how DPEA prepares students for careers that don't exist today.

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Marcello Palazzi: Civic & Economic Development

impactmania — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 13:46:29 +0000

Marcello Palazzi: Civic & Economic Development BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG Marcello Palazzi, Stanford University Fellow; Co-Founder of B-Corp Europe; and Co-Founder of Progressio Foundation, spoke about his longstanding work in pursuit of “civic and entrepreneurial” solutions. Palazzi also offered the keynote presentation at the launch of Impact X, Paksy Plackis-Cheng’s book that continued as impactmania. Is there a [...]

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UCSB’s Materials Research Laboratory Science Symposium

impactmania — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:41:10 +0000

UCSB’s Materials Research Laboratory Science Symposium BY CHELSEA CATANIA On February 2-3 at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) held the annual Materials Research Outreach Program (MROP) Symposium. MROP was founded in 1999 to showcase research conducted at the MRL to industrial and venture partners. Prof. Ram Seshadri, co-director [...]

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Prediction Technology: Helping to Prevent or Solve Problems

impactmania — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:41:10 +0000

Prediction Technology: Helping to Prevent or Solve Problems Any good business should be solving a problem. If they were able to anticipate events before they would occur, they could do a better job of solving problems. We are providing tools to help them do that. Sean D. Young, Phd, is a behavioral psychologist and assistant [...]

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