U. Montana Innovation Factory presentation

Design is a term growing in frequency of use in public and private discourse for good reasons although the term is used to designate a diversity of activities that may or may not have anything in common with one another. Students, academics and the public are asking with some insistence; “what the hell is design?” This presentation will initiate a conversation that begins to answer that question.

Innovation factory presentation

https://www.montanabusinessevents.com/12/13/2019/12-13-the-design-way-with-harold-nelson/

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