Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong? | MIT Technology Review
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An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong? | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At the time, Cornforth was a director at the Edible Schoolyard Project , a nonprofit that uses gardening and cooking in schools to teach and to provide nutritious food. She was there to meet with IDEO.org, a new social-impact spinoff of the design consulting firm, which was exploring how to reimagine school lunch, a mission that the Edible Schoolyard Project has been
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