Earlier this month we had the pleasure of once more running our flagship design bootcamp, Design Jam. Over two big days, our participants took on the ambitious challenge of using the design thinking skills and tolls they were learning to create real solutions for real social impact problems. This time…

In a world where Marvel and its caped crusaders have overtaken Star Wars, Harry Potter and James Bond to become the biggest pop culture franchise of all time, heroes are everywhere we look. We’re collectively enchanted with the familiar story of an exceptional hero (usually a man, almost always white)…

All of us look for purpose in the work we do — we want to feel that our efforts make a difference in some way, by making somebody’s life easier or making the world a better place. But when we think about becoming a ‘social innovator’, we can put ourselves…

At Skills of the Modern Age, we believe design thinking is a crucial skill set that can help us tackle some of the world’s most important problems; that’s why design skills are at the heart of almost all our learning programs. One of our flagship design skills programs, the Design…

During Britain’s colonial occupation of India, the British government ran into a problem with cobras in Delhi. The population of the venomous snakes was rising, and the government was looking for ways to reduce their numbers. Hoping to enlist the local population in their containment efforts, the government announced a…

It’s been a huge few months. As the COVID-19 pandemic descended, businesses all over the world were thrown a collective curveball and forced to rapidly adapt to a very new way of working. …

Over the last three weeks, the Skills of the Modern Age team has been lucky enough to travel across Australia sharing our love of hands-on, fast-paced design and innovation learning. In Brisbane we ran a trio of short immersive workshops we called ‘Design Dashes’; co-hosted an exciting industry panel event…

At Skills of the Modern age, our mission is to get people, organisations and communities ready for and excited about the future of work. That means we do a lot of capacity-building work in organisations big and small, training adults in the essential design and innovation skills they need —…

November’s EDfutures Community Night (our second-to-last for the year!) was facilitated by Kendall Clifton-Short from The Purpose:fully. This event was all about values in education; what we think we value, the values we embody in our actions, the education system our values have produced, and the values we would need…