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Papillon Enterprise: Creativity with a Conscience

By Humanities Watch|2017-04-27T17:44:09-04:00December 8th, 2016|2016, business, Central / South America, December, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, Fashion, health, Other Sites, People, Recommendations|0 Comments

"Papillon Enterprise is a socially & ecologically conscious business with a mission of stimulating the Haitian economy by exporting and marketing Haitian artisan goods. We are creating jobs for mothers & fathers who don’t want to have to abandon their children to an orphanage because they can’t feed them." h/t Rick Love [...]

How can we reintegrate knowledge in a simple and useful way? (Charles Eames)

How can we reintegrate knowledge in a simple and useful way? Forty years ago, a leading designer reflects on the challenges created by divisions in higher education. From the article: Unfortunately, universities today are becoming discontinuity headquarters, with each department avoiding communication with the others and with the rest of the world. Used as it [...]