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Stanford d.school Proves You Really Can Design a Space for Innovation BY   LINDA TISCHLER Mon Apr 26, 2010 "Space matters." That's the mantra at the  Stanford d.school , where students and staffers have spent six years figuring out how to tweak an environment to make it a more fertile breeding ground for ideas. Now they're going to find out if those ideas work. The boxes were unpacked in late March, in time for the start of the university's third quarter. But the official ribbon-cutting on the 40K square foot new building (which houses both the d.school and all other design programs at Stanford) isn't until May 7.  Fast Company  got a sneak preview, and we'll be giving you a guided tour (along with photos, videos and critiques of the space from the students themselves) in the days ahead. We'll go behind the scenes to show how every nook, cranny, and fungible wall system has been smartly designed to maximize collaboration. The school, which is offi...

Kids in Argentina learn to grow their own food By  Brian Byrnes , CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS Community efforts have reclaimed lots filled with garbage into urban gardens Children's hunger and undernourishment are big problems in Argentina Organizations hope that by teaching children about farming, they can have access to nutritious food BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN)  -- On his knees in the soggy soil, 9-year-old Alexis Ocampo digs deep into the earth, his small gardening rake separating dirt from rocks. "Look, I found a worm!" he shrieks. Towering above is Andrea Girardini, calmly instructing Alexis and the half-dozen other children working to clear spots for new crops. "We can put a squash plant here, and some lettuce over there," says Girardini, a director of Semillas al Viento, a community organization that teaches neighborhood kids practical skills that help them put food on the table. "The children come here and learn how to farm and how to cultivate the...