All posts tagged Ingenuity:
COMMON Hoops from COMMON Hoops on Vimeo.
Common Hoops...bringing young people together to design and construct basketball backboards from salvaged materials. The creative expression empowers kids, the construction creates jobs, and the installation creates pride in the community.
Got Hoops & Ideas?!
via KEEN Footwear
Play is serious business & PLAY is serious in business!
Why PLAY Matters: Learn More - HERE
RECESS is Back & Necessary in business! - Got PLAY?!
Custom katalytic footwear is highlighted in this artistry-focused episode. BUA, Mags & Macatawa Bank provide the creative goods that will prompt you to gaze, gawk & giggle!
Got KICKS?!
Gotta love the web! My daily Google search for the phrase “business innovation” sent an email alert for this innovation gathering that’s happening in Providence, RI this week…
The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) shares “proof of concept” at BIF-5
The BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit, co-hosted by Bruce Nussbaum and Bill Taylor, will bring together today’s most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers to discuss innovation success through personal storytelling. Over two days you will hear twenty five stories about creating change and directly connect with pioneers who created environments and opportunities where transformative innovation emerged.
Learn more about The Business Innovation Factory (BIF)
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All of the inventions are ingenious & have the capacity to improve the human condition but…I’m kinda partial to invention #14!
DIY Soccer Balls
Soccer—or “football”—is a sport played all over the world, and the ball being kicked can range from top-quality World Cup balls, to handmade plastic or cloth ones. Some DIY soccer ball designs have been leveraged into viable business enterprises creating jobs for stitchers through local production. All DIY soccer balls represent a design achievement in bringing the sport to children who otherwise wouldn’t have access to it. Liza Forester and Marti Guixe focused on the creation of a sustainable enterprise in the development of the conceptual project, Let’s Kick It, which provides women and orphan girls afflicted by AIDS with patterns to stitch fabric soccer balls that are then stuffed with plastic bags and sold. Make your own DIY balls using football tape and recycle plastic bags as seen in the photo above.
Got Ideas?!
Malcolm Gladwell shares his unique “forensic” writing style once again in his latest magazine piece for The New Yorker.
His latest “social forensic case” delves into just how “Davids” aka Underdogs (KC note: I just couldn’t resist using this image from one of my favorite childhood cartoons!) can defeat the “Goliaths” of the world with a bit of rule breaking, great effort, cleverness, a dash of the unexpected, and ingenuity.
For me, a story that can stitch together a compelling read using disparate tales of an low-skilled, girl’s youth hoops team’s rise to dominance + a Biblical tale of a “rule breaker” (aka David v. Goliath) + Rick Pitino as a freshman “bench warmer” at UMass + Julius “the Doctor….Errrrrving!” and create a painstakingly detailed, highly insightful, cleverly “penned”, joyfully unexpected reading experience for the “David-in-all-of-us” ... is gonna be a post on my blog!
Well shared, Malcolm…well shared!
Enjoy the read + break some rules!
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