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A Look Back at our Public Interest Design Predictions for 2013

For PublicInterestDesign.org’s third annual year in review series, we’re chronicling initiatives shaping the field of public interest design. As was the case in previous years, this is not an exercise in trend-spotting, but instead a meditation initiatives poised to advance a growing field at the intersection of design and social change.

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WATCH: A Message From the Future

Eat more cereal, take advantage of nature, and get up off your chair and dance like a lunatic.

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VIDEO: The Future Imperfect

Audio/visual remix auteurs Eclectic Method present a supercut of movie scenes that present a glimpse of the future.

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Sugata Mitra Wins $1 Million TED Prize for Innovative Education Project 'Hole in the Wall'

Sugata Mitra won $1 million at TED for his Hole in the Wall Experiment.

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You Don't Have to Reinvent the Wheel, Just Everything Else

A bike can be an instrument change, but we must be the fuel.

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Not Possible Foundation: How to Take on the Seemingly Impossible

The Not Impossible Foundation is a nonprofit organization that takes ideas thought to be impossible and works to make them a reality.

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Participation, Not Marginalization: Using People's Stories for Social Good

Filmmakers capitalize on the stories of the underprivileged, but the subjects make no profit. A solution: help them to tell their own stories.

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Present and Future of Design: From Digital Fabrication to Designing For Change

Nader Tehrani, head of the Department of Architecture at MIT, talks about the present and future of design.

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Foster Care Doesn't End at Age 18

I’ve seen the magic that happens when a teen in foster care knows someone believes in her or him.

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A New Approach to Making Films That Matter

As documentaries are becoming more popular, filmmakers and funders alike must use data and resources to make films that tackle important social issues

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Is the Crowd a Feasible Design Partner?

I’d like to suggest four attributes that we should dare more in collaborative design.

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American Dreamers: 56 Dreams for a Brighter Future

American Dreamers is a new and growing collection of dreams for the future.