In 1981, a curiously profound experience took place in a converted monastery in New Hampshire. Psychologist Ellen Langer brought together eight men in their 70s to embody their earlier selves in an setting designed to evoke the year 1959. For five days, the men treated 1959 as their present. Before…
From February 2015
Thicket turns one!
This month marks Thicket’s one year anniversary! As many of you know, I launched Thicket one year ago believing that design could facilitate social change, and systemic scale was possible. In February of last year, I started inviting like-minded individuals to collaborate to bring these ideas into reality. By summer, we…
Thicket Labs featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review
Read our new article published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. “Cracking the Black Box of Human Reasoning” explains why we combine big data tools suited to working with complex systems data with participatory design tools in our work.