Links to to sources that I find interesting:

Videos from TED

Audio podcasts

Networks and conferences

Academic journals

Videos from TED

Below are some of my favourite TED Talks:

Art, aesthetics, imagination

• Isabel Allende: Tales of passion.
• Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new.
• Andrew Bird: One-man orchestra of the imagination.
• Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication.
• Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists.
• The LXD: Legion of Extraordinary Dancers.
• Miwa Matreyek: Glorious visions.
• Scott McCloud: Understanding comics.
• C.K. Williams: Poetry of youth and age.
• Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shiny eyes.

Creativity, design, innovation

• Paola Antonelli: Design and the elastic mind.
• Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!
• Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play.
• Tim Brown urges designers to think big.
• Jonathan Drori: Why we don't understand as much as we think we do.
• Elizabeth Gilbert: A different way to think about creative genius.
• Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional.
• Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff.

Society, change, education

• Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish.
• Dave Eggers: Once upon a school.
• John Hunter on the World Peace Game.
• Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School.
• Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
• Shimon Schocken's rides of hope
• Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better
• Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do.

Well-being, happiness, relations

• Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability.
• Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days.
• Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed.
• Bruce Feiler: The council of dads.
• Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman: Let's talk parenting taboos.
• Carl Honore: Slowing down in a world built for speed.
• Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?
• Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion.

Politics, economics, philosophy

• Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story.
• John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer.
• Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and conservatives.
• Rev. Tom Honey: How could God have allowed the tsunami?
• Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world.
• Raghava KK: Shake up your story.
• Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise
• Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom.

Audio podcasts

Below are some of my favourite audio podcasts

From Philosophy Bites:

• John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life.
• Roger Crisp on Virtue.
• Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love.
• Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics.
• Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics.

From Four Thought:

• Ed Smith argues that too much professionalism is not a winner.
• Hilary Cottam unfolds her vision for redesigning the welfare state.

Networks and conferences

• EASST, the European Assocation for the Study of Science and Technology.
• EGOS, the European Group for Organization Studies.
• SDN, the Service Design Network.
• ACM Special Interest Group Computer Human Interaction, its Dutch chapter Chi Nederland, and the ACM Library.
• SCOS, the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism.
• SPT, the Society for Philosophy and Technology.
• EURAM, the European Academy of Management.
• Kreanet, a network of professionals active in the field of creativity.

Academic journals

• CoDesign, 'is inclusive, encompassing collaborative, co-operative, concurrent, human-centred, participatory, socio-technical and community design among others'. A paper of mine: Tensions in human-centred design.
• Creativity and Innovation Management, 'fills a crucial gap in management literature between the theory and practice of organizing imagination and innovation'.
• International Journal of Design, 'provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures and encourages research on the impact of cultural factors on design theory and practice'.
  A paper that I co-authored: Benefits of co-design in service design projects.
• Design Issues, 'provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design'.
• Design Philosophy Papers, 'comes with a passion to communicate, share and argue for a much greater recognition of importance of design as a force in the contemporary world'.
• Design Studies, 'understanding of design from comparisons across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural design and planning, computer artefacts and systems design'.
• Ethics and Information Technology, 'a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the dialogue between moral philosophy and the field of information and communication technology (ICT)'.
• International Journal of Innovation Management, 'a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing the many challenges of managing innovation, rather than a narrow focus on a single aspect such as technology, R&D or new product development'.
  A paper that I co-authored: Three approaches to take the user perspective into account during new product design.
• Organization, 'The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society'.
• Organization Studies, 'an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the studies of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies'.
• R&D Management: 'address the interests of both practising managers and academic researchers in R&D and innovation management'.
• Science and Engineering Ethics, 'a multi-disciplinary journal that explores ethical issues of direct concern to scientists and engineers'.
• Journal of Service Research, 'features articles by the world's leading service experts, from both academia and the business world'.
• Science, Technology, & Human Values, 'on the development and dynamics of science and technology, including their relationship to politics, society and culture'.
• Techné, on research in philosophy and technology.

Last updated: 22 Nov 2011.