Sarah Jane Wilson (co-author)
Conservation International, October, 2022

Sarah Jane Wilson (co-author)

Conservation International, October, 2022 

Sarah Jane Wilson (co-author)
Conservation International, October, 2022

Scott Francisco and Sarah Jane Wilson (co-authors)
Nature Sustainability, May 7, 2022

People do not behave the way models assume and information is not sufficient to change minds. Environmental policies that do not take these realities into account fail. Strategy games can help develop better policies. We will change the choices we make when we change the way we make choices.

Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 29 October 2020

Published in REVOLVE Magazine Spring edition 2019

Scott Francisco (co-author)
Original Publication: Conservation Biology, July 7, 2017

Scott Francisco
Original Publication: LinkedIn, June 21, 2017

Scott Francisco
Original Publication: Office Insight, September 2011, pg 15

Scott Francisco
Original Publication: Contract Design Magazine, June 2011, pg 72

The design and consulting industry have become addicted to “picking up slack” ... eliminating inefficiencies that can be “measurably reduced”. But the best business thinkers today believe that slack is essential to innovation and a sustainable economy. Can the design industry get past our dead-end obsession with short-term efficiency and begin nurturing some "slack" before it’s too late?

Ernest Beck
IIDA Journal, Spring 2011, pg 25

Scott Francisco
Original Publication: Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Vol 10, 2 Nov 2010

Innovation outputs may appear prolific and encouraging today - but will this last?  This paper proposes that certain cognitive and cultural attributes vital to innovation, creativity, risk-taking and complex problem-solving skills, are themselves at risk... The conflict between innovation 'products' and 'process' is the Innovation Paradox.

Scott Francisco
Office Insight, 2 Nov 2009

Brad Powell
Office Insight, 12 Oct 2009

Scott Francisco
DEGW Insights, 2008

Scott Francisco
American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 50 Number 7 March 2007

Scott Francisco
Educause - Learning Spaces: Chapter 27  2006

Scott Francisco
SMArchS Thesis: M.I.T., August 2005
A study was carried out to explore methods for improving the understanding and practice of design as a means of self-discovery, intersubjective dialogue and cultural development. Using MIT as a laboratory and case study...

Courtney Humphries
MIT Technology Review
The cafe is the brainchild of architecture graduate student Scott Francisco, who wanted to bring the concepts of open-source software–in which programmers share and build on each other’s ideas–to food service on campus.

Scott Francisco
M.I.T. (SMArchS, Faculty Colloquium: Frontiers in Architecture and Engineering)
Harvard (Anthropology 104, Language and Culture), Jan 2004

This paper began with a question raised about the notorious and inevitable relationship between
Architects and Engineers: How do these professions work together in the overlapping worlds of
building and design, and more importantly, how should they?

It seemed at first that ‘answers’ would have to be constructed in a form other than an academic
paper. A novel, for instance, or a TV program (say a follow-up to Law and Order called Form and
Function.) Maybe a morning radio talk-show, or an advice column in the New York Times––a
place where the two professions could confront one another and vent their frustrations and hopes in
glorious public anonymity––gossip on the airwaves, or in print. The self-help book might also have
been a workable genre, perhaps: “Architects are from Jupiter, Engineers are from Voyager-II”.
Surely I could have written, directed or produced any one of these instead of a paper. After all,
don’t we each have our fantasies of stepping out of ourselves, and the parts we are asked to
play? But in the end we must all return to our prescribed roles, and tow the line of ‘professional
expectations’, as I will shortly as an ‘academic’. Or do we?

Scott Francisco
2004, Advanced Seminar in City Form, MIT

Scott Francisco
Pinup MIT, 2004

Scott Francisco
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - Proceedings, 2002
M.I.T. NotToScale, 2003

Scott Francisco
The Toronto Star, page J5 April 29, 1989