Maryline Passini

design thinking

Building a Design Thinking Culture

Popularized by Tim Brown, Design Thinking is a method of innovation that uses the designer's tools to design the most perfect response to customer expectations. Today, although its detractors are numerous, the concept is gradually spreading to new territories, to the nerve centre of organisations and

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agriculture

Bicitractor: the open source agricultural bicycle-tractor

Here is a beautiful project "BICITRACTOR" developed by Farmingsoul which tracts the future of "market gardening" agriculture in a sustainable sense at the heart of the new open models (business models of the open economy that opens to the Common Goods) and a true economy of sharing which, I hope, will create another value far from the collaborative economy.

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biodiversity

Doctor bees detect diseases

Doctor bees detecting diseases will be the heroines of the Hypervital exhibition at the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial, via Susana Soares, designer. Scientists have proven that the classic bees - Apis mellifera - have an extraordinary sense of smell. It is even easy to train bees to

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innovative health

Self-healing with nanogels

An MIT innovation in personalized health: nanogels (genial assembly lattices) that deliver the right dose and can be self-administered. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of hydrogel for medical use. This gel is designed to deliver the right dose of

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innovation

The voice is... Vocalys!

J.A.R.V.I.S, the artificial intelligence in Iron Man, has now become a reality. 16 students from Epitech worked for two years on the interconnection between human sciences and programming. The resulting technology, Vocalys, allows remote control of software and objects connected by voice, in the language

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social innovations

Europe Tomorrow: the new continent of social and environmental innovation

They are three young social entrepreneurs, Malo, Florian and Boris, with the aim of re-enchanting our "old continent" in order to give it a new youth. After starting in France, they realized that many solutions already existed in our territories. Whether they are positive, collaborative, social, etc., they are not only positive, but they also have a positive impact on the environment.

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innovative health

Self-healing with nanogels

An MIT innovation in personalized health: nanogels (genial assembly lattices) that deliver the right dose and can be self-administered. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of hydrogel for medical use. This gel is designed to deliver the right dose of

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innovation

Graphene "Flagship": the material of tomorrow?

The ten-year roadmap of the European graphene research programme "Flagship as tomorrow's material? In an open access paper published on 24 February in the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Nanoscale, more than 60 academics and industrialists unveiled the 10-year roadmap of the European graphene research programme "Flagship material of tomorrow?

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agriculture

Agriculture on the move: towards agrotech

As you know, this is currently the Salon de l'agriculture and SIMA (agricultural machinery) - the opportunity to check whether agriculture is on the move according to the theme of Salon 2015. Agriculture on the move to eat better...to preserve the planet...and to innovate! says the claim. And in terms of innovation,

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Sponsor a tree for the Climate in Davos

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The World Economic Forum in Davos is known as the meeting place for world leaders. This year it will bring together more than 40 heads of state and government and 2,500 business and opinion leaders. Pur Projet will be present and will launch a new application for planting trees.

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