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What are the strategies of the Media Lab in order to have Global impact? I´m working in a similar lab but I guess we do not have all the impact that we should have

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2014/10/02/antidisciplinar.html

An extension of my question is: How the culture around you influences "square minds", "followers" opposites to "creativity" and "innovation"? US is well- known as a culture that encourage the individual success and innovation. Also US has has a particular market that promotes changes in services and products. However, a country as my homeland is different. People hate changes and complain a lot when something is new. Hence, I found that academic people in the universities there tend to be very conservative although they have the chance and resources to investigate cutting-edge topics (that is why I migrated). How the change can be made to convert this conservative culture in something that improves the very bad national situation? Furthermore how all the developing countries can contribute to improve the world and not expect that developed countries came with solutions for them all the time?

Hi, another question. In the third world many engineers and scientist are trained in order to have a very "square" mind", on another hand, industrial designers, architects and artist continue doing the old school stuff. How we can mix both people in order to provide creative technological solutions? What are the requirements for a new curricula mixing both things?