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29 September 2009
A call for "design thinking": Tim Brown on TED.com
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking." (Recorded at TEDGlobal, July 2009, Oxford, UK.Duration: 16:50)
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