I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
A structured design approach can heighten the hit rate in the fuzzy front end of innovation processes in public and private sectors. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this way, the… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena to unprecedented… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists -… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share
