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Routine Commitment

Public Swimming Pools | Munich

Topic: Routines

By Vicky Arndt, IDEO

Routines help us experience the benefit of things that require effort. As we all know, sports can be exhausting and the effort required to workout can be immense, especially in the morning prior to trekking…

Product Purification

At Home | Munich

Topic: Routines

By Fabian Nehne, IDEO

I like things clean and pure. For me, life with less visual clutter is life with less stress. As a college student, I realized that I could peel off packaging labels for a more calming visual scene. Soon,…

Morning Coffee

Train Station | London

Topic: Routines

By Ingrid Baron, IDEO

The routine of morning coffee is nearly universal. For me, it was a habit that I long took for granted. But when I moved from the city to the country, my life ¬– all my former routines – became disrupted.…

Next Month's Topic & Assignment:

Refresh

Such far-reaching issues as obesity, sustainability, and consumption have us all thinking about where we are heading as a global community. We are at a critical point in time as we establish collective practices for our future. Believing that social change is the collective outcome of millions of individual behavior changes over time, we felt this was a good time to explore individual pattern making and pattern breaking. In this exploration, we hope to further understand how personally inspiring experiences alter our hard-wired behaviors.

This month we’ll look to the world for examples of experiences that provided the inspiration necessary to shift an individual's existing pattern structure. We're talking about things—people, experiences, environments, and services—that motivate us to change. Inspiration that has enough influence to not only affect behaviors today, but well into the future.

Bring anything to mind? We look forward to hearing from you!

Beginnings

Aging

WNYC – The Brian Lehrer Show

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