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<span style="font-size:medium;">Benjamin Riddle<br/>[[File:HeadshotWww.furman.jpgedu|thumbFurman University]] Innovation Fellow<br/>Design Maverick, [[Www.futurepartners.is|Headshot.jpgFuture Partners]]</span>

Benjamin Riddle<brspan style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">University Innovation Fellow,</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben works with student leaders across the United States to equip undergraduates with tools and skills needed to compete in the economy of the future. Through his work at</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;Furman University</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Ben partners with students, faculty, administrators and alumni to create new initiatives that use design thinking as a tool for engaged learning and creative problem solving. Recently, Ben has represented the Furman and the Fellows at the </span>[[Wwwhttp://dschool.furmanstanford.edu|Furman University/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">d.school</span>]] Innovation Fellow<brspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the </span>[http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/d_school/home.html?L=1 <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HPI School of Design MaverickThinking</span>]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the </span>[http://continuinged.uml.edu/deshpande/ <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deshpande Symposium</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education and at the </span>[Wwwhttp://www.futurepartnersnae.is|Future Partners]edu/ <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Academy of Engineering</span>]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span>

<brspan style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89f4c759-d11c-10de-f132-8ffa967bc712"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From grassroots groups to global agencies, Ben brings diverse networks together to engage in projects that bridge cultural divides. &nbsp;In recent years, Ben has worked with </span>[http://www.futurepartners.is <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Future Partners</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and <br/span>[http://www.projectmlab.com <span style="color: rgb(8434, 8134, 7534); fonttext-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Project M</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-familyspace: 'Droid Sans'pre-wrap;">to foster sustainable development in the rural South, Helveticaand has launched </span>[http://104good.com/ <span style="color: rgb(34, Arial34, sans34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap; font">10-4 Good City</span>]<span style="vertical-sizealign: 13pxbaseline; linewhite-heightspace: 19pxpre-wrap;">Benjamin Riddle is , a Duke Scholar at Furman University where he works with the Office network of the President to explore design thinking social entrepreneurs that share resources, connections and social entrepreneurship as strategies for engaged learningideas across cities. Ben has represented Furman at also worked with the HPI School of Design Thinking’s d</span>[http://www.instituteforchildsuccess.convestivalorg/ <span style="color: rgb(34, and brought Cannon Design34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Institute of Child Success</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to explore ways that human centered design can be used to improve the Associated Colleges health and wellbeing of children and families in the Southearly childhood system. In recent months, and two Furman departments together to create Design for Social Change, an interdisciplinary course that serves as a model for reinvigorating the liberal arts through designBen was featured in </span>[http://www. He has also launched POP Studio – a social design studio for public works projectswhitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/07/celebrating-campus-leaders-during-national-entrepreneurship-month <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">White House Office of Science & Technology</span>]&nbsp;<br/span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blog, <br/span>[http://designgood.com/ben-riddle/ <span style="color: rgb(8417, 8185, 75204); fonttext-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor: 'Droid Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sanstransparent;">Design Good</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-serifalign: baseline; fontwhite-sizespace: 13pxpre-wrap; linebackground-heightcolor: 19pxtransparent;">From TEDx events and </span>[http://www.fastcompany.com/3033263/innovation-agents/how-to community celebrations, fashion shows -say-no-to multi-million dollar fundraising campaigns, Ben creates events and experiences that connect networks to create shared value. He has worked with Greenville Forwarda-stanford-admission <span style="color: rgb(17, TEDxGreenville85, and is the founding curator of TEDxFurmanU. Ben is currently working with the TED Breaker Project’s global team 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Fast Company</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for his efforts to explore “The Future of Stuff” at drive place-based change in the Stanford d.schoolSoutheast.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style= "font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font colorspan id="#54514bdocs-internal-guid-89f4c759-d11c-10de-f132-8ffa967bc712" face><span style="Droid Sansvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the course of his academic career, HelveticaBen has studied Sustainable Development at </span>[http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/ <span style="color: rgb(34, Arial34, sans34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freie Universitat Berlin</span>]&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;" size>and Furman University, where he serves as a Duke Scholar and Research Fellow at the </span>[http://www.furman.edu/academics/shicenter/Pages/default.aspx <span style="2color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shi Center for Sustainabilit</span>]<span style="linevertical-align: baseline; white-heightspace: 19pxpre-wrap;">Related Linksy. Ben is currently active in Greenvile, South Carolina, where he is a project facilitator for Victory Village, a mixed-income community that is built upon service, stewardship and sustainability.</span></span></span></span><div></fontdiv> =Related Links =

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