Inclusive children´s book for Hispanic Markets – Support us!

Adelia Cook, one of three books of the Adelia Collection – Help little Adelia reach all the kids around the world!

 

 

I am launching a project in  Catarse ( brazilian crowdfunding site) about an inclusive children’s book developed with an innovative Braille print created by author and graphic designer Wanda Gomes from Brazil. This Braille print developed by her is unique in the world and brings a whole new experience for children with visual impairment or not; it allows textures, reliefs and even scents to be printed!

 

 The collection is called Adélia and is already in Portuguese with 9 thousand copies distributed.

 

The funding is to print 500 copies in Spanish for dissemination in Book Fairs in México, Argentina  and Colombia with the Spanish publishers who have already requested the collection and also the american hispanic market.

 

 A very important project for the education and inclusion of children with visual impairment.

 

The project also seeks investors to cover or exceed the total value for a larger print run and distribution.

 

 Access the project at: https://www.catarse.me/adeliacozinheira/

(Google Translator at the bottom of the site)

 

Portuguese Article in Draft Project: http://projetodraft.com/imagine-criar-livros-com-sistema-braile-com-texturas-aromas-e-sensacoes-este-e-o-proposito-da-wg/

 

Spanish article at:

http://formaciongrafica.net/magazine/la-columna-de/marcio-dupont/diseno-editorial-inclusivo

 

Blind girl feeling the textures of the book with her face.

 

 

Thanks in advance for your support, sharing and network! Help little Adelia to reach all the kids of the world!

Predatory scholarly open-access publishers

From PHD Designer Ken Friedman:

“It was with shock and sadness that I learned today that Jeffrey Beall’s list of predatory publishers is no longer.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics

This is unfortunate for the field — Jeffrey Beall performed a great and valuable service. Given the problems in so many fields with the avalanche of crank journals and predatory publishers, I understand his decision, but I lament it.

For every research field — including our own — it is time to discuss the ways that people can determine on their own whether a journal is predatory or a conference is bogus. Open access publishing by serious publishers under the same conditions as paywall publishing offers a useful approach for some journals, but the flood of problem journals and predatory publishers is causing untold damage and destruction.

Many of us have used Beall’s list every day. We sent students and colleagues to the list for up-to-date advice. This leaves a massive gap in the field, and Beall’s work will be irreplaceable. I cannot imagine anyone with the capacity to replace Beall’s list — and I cannot imagine, given the repeated attacks on his good name and his character, that anyone will dare to step up.

Since reading this news, I have been sitting here, stunned. I feel the way I felt when the Taliban blew up the great Buddhist monuments.

A global mob of barbarians and pirates found a way to use the university system to open a cash flow spigot, turning earnest young researchers into suckers, and flooding the world with garbage publications. Beall created a solution, at least for those who did not wish to benefit from the corrupt predatory system. Over the past three or four years, the number of enterprises in this corrupt business has quadrupled. To me, this was a monumental effort. In the history of mankind, it may not be remembered in the same way that we remember destroyed monuments and looted archeological treasures. But for those concerned with the integrity of research publishing, Beall’s List was a high point at a low moment in history.”

Big brands – big design mistakes at Museum of Failure

A new museum dedicated to cataloguing design and innovation failures opens in Sweden this week, with exhibits ranging from a Donald Trump board game to a range of microwave meals from toothpaste brand Colgate.

Visit the museum at: DESIGNWEEK

This Human Book – – How to Be the Person Designing for Other People

This Human was published by BIS to critical acclaim in April. The author is Dr. Melis Senova, a pioneer in human-centered design. She was a featured speaker at SXSW this year where she discussed her book and the motivations behind its creation. Her presentation set record attendance and her books sold out. This Human focuses on people who are determined to have impact with their work and what it means to be human in this time of rapid change and shift.

She is the founder of her own global strategic design consultancy, Huddle, and a highly-regarded and enterprising thought leader. Her vast business experience, underpinned by a Ph.D. in Human Factors (human-centered design), sees her focused on reshaping the super systems of the future. This reshaping is essential to ensure we address the complex challenges facing humanity and the planet.

Dr. Senova believes we can change our realities by changing our minds. Based in Australia, Dr. Senova is also the founder of Huddle Labs, a research capability innovating the definition of value in a post-capitalist society; Huddle Academy, a school focused on building creative problem solving capabilities for individuals and organizations; and Huddle Foundation, a platform that curates the connection between designers, philanthropists and social enterprises. Huddle has worked with global institutions including ING Bank, Suncorp, and Bupa as well as the New South Wales and Victorian governments to implement value-based systems for people and build the next generation of organizations and government.

World Design Summit – Call for Proposals

What are the innovative design ideas and actions that could bring

about better futures?

How can design in all its facets respond to issues as a

transformational agent that supports cultural, political, economic,

environmental and everyday societal needs?

SUBMIT YOUR DESIGN PROPOSAL – DEADLINE JUNE 4

Design Investigations

Structuring Analysis for Innovation

Obsolete

With the rise of technology and the real-time pressures of an online, global economy,

humans will have to be very clever – and very careful – not to be left behind by the future.From the perspective of those in charge, human labor is losing its value, and people are becoming a liability.

This documentary reveals the real motivation behind the secretive effort to reduce the population and bring resource use into strict, centralized control.

Could it be that the biggest threat we face isn’t just automation and robots destroying jobs, but the larger sense that humans could become obsolete altogether?

Watch Obsolete at https://youtu.be/jPmUGq25KBk

More Future at:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_transhumanism.htm#Multimedia

Open letter to the Design Community: Stand Up for Democracy

1. There is no need to point out that we are now in difficult and
dangerous times. For many years we were living in a world that, despite its problems, has been nevertheless engaged in a democratization process whereby human rights, fundamental freedoms and opportunities for personal development were increasing. Today, this whole picture has changed. Attacks on democracy are active in several countries, including the ones where
democracy seemed to be unshakable.

2. In these new times, the design community (practitioners, researchers, theorists, students, journalists, publishers and curators who are professionally involved in design- related activities) should stand up, speak out and act. To do that we do not have to share the same idea of what democracy is. It is enough to recognize the strong convergence between democracy and design.