Design Science: Global Solutions Lab

Posted by on April 23, 2012

Design Science: Global Solutions Lab

Where you develop solutions to critical global and local problems
2012: DESIGNING THE WORLD TO WORK FOR EVERYONE

Who attends?
College and high school students, as well as teachers and young professionals from around the world.

Focus
This year’s Lab will focus on greening and transforming cities and their slums.

What you learn, do, get
– Be briefed by United Nations experts on global problems and opportunities.
– Develop solutions to the world’s critical problems. Learn about critical problems that impact the live’s of
everyone in the world, as well as the opportunities associated with these problems and what we can do to change the current situation.
– Learn and use Design Science—a problem-solving and strategic design and planning methodology, developed by Buckminster Fuller and other scientists and designers, that will be of use to you for the rest of your life. You will work collaboratively to develop a solution to meet one or more of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.
– Present your work at the UN to a team of UN, corporate and foundation leaders. Your work will be published in a book after the Lab’s conclusion and distributed to the UN and others around the world.
– You will receive a CD ROM packed with over $1,000 worth of the latest books and reports from the UN and dozens of other international agencies on the state of the world, energy, food, water, population,
education, health, climate, the global economy and other topics.
– Work very hard and have fun doing it.

To register
Further details & registration info at http://www.designsciencelab.com where you can also download the book from last year’s Lab.

About us
The Design Science: Global Solutions Lab is a joint program of BigPictureSmallWorld and Global Education Motivators. The Lab is directed by Medard Gabel.

SUMMARY
2012 Design Science: Global Solutions Lab
When: June 17–25, 2012
Where: The UN, New York, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA.
What: 1. be briefed by expert UN staff
2. develop designs and solutions
3. present these at the UN

Cost: Lab tuition $950. Discount for early registration. Partial scholarships available in special circumstances.

Sponsors: BigPictureSmallWorld and Global Education Motivators
Contact: 610.566.0156
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