From Silos to Synergy
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Portland Design Thinkers is excited to announce an evening with Todd Harple - From Silos to Synergy: An Anthropologist's Journey in Bridging Methodologies for Collaborative Design
Design Thinking as we know it today is largely a product of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Championed by Stanford’s d.school and with significant contributions and commoditization from design firms, Design Thinking became popular as a way to apply a design approach to business and innovation. It was in this milieu in 2006 that I began working at Intel as an Anthropologist.
Over the course of two decades, I’ve adapted my own toolkit of methods to suit the audiences, challenges, resources, and desired outcomes of specific projects. With experience and time, I’ve moved from rejecting Design Thinking to embracing it, to relegating elements of it to a part of a multi- (or anti-disciplinary) collaborative toolkit. This talk will illustrate with examples from my own work in consumer electronics, fashion, fitness, health and sports how my approach to collaborative design has evolved.
-Todd Harple
From Silos to Synergy