Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes

Jens Martin Skibsted

Profession : Designer

Birth : June 28, 1970

Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such.

Jens Martin Skibsted

The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.

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Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.

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A structured design approach can heighten the hit rate in the fuzzy front end of innovation processes in public and private sectors.

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Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

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Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.

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Obviously, not all migration relates to global warming, but the correlation is higher than most would think.

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Growth is not the end-all-goal of politics, but it is one of the most compelling deliverables.

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When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive.

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Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena to unprecedented heights. As digital devices permeate every aspect of our lives, it has boosted the way in which information can distort truth.

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A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

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From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.

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I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

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The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

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Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists - conform to old-school utilitarian principles - consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that they believe brings about the greatest positive impact.

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