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How to practice empathy daily

by Isabel Melo / January 28, 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutes You have probably heard many times about “empathizing” with someone. More than the simple fact of listening and putting oneself in the other’s place in the face of their vulnerable situation, a set of factors make up this type of interpersonal ability of having empathy, which is often intrinsic to the individual or worked on during their training. In its etymology (Greek origin), it refers to passion…

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(Transition) Design in times of change

by Olga T / October 8, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes Change… What happens when change occurs? We get asked to adapt and adjust our ways of doing things in order to accommodate the change. This diminishes the amount of struggle we go through and pushes us to innovate. Especially in Transtion Design. A major threat to innovation is to oversimplify design and its role in society. Margolin once said that “Somewhere along the line [design] became marginalized…

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5 start-up practices traditional companies should adopt in their daily work

by Isabel Melo / October 2, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes Adaptation and resilience to adapt to changes are some characteristics many people and organizations have had to work on internally, in the face of the chaos of the Covid-19 pandemic. Others, like start-ups, hadn’t so much trouble. More traditional companies had to migrate from the offline world to the online world in a matter of weeks and, it is true, that a good part was not prepared…