Alumni Weekend at UBC – Little Entrepreneurs: Kids. Business. Ideas
Do you feel that you have a little Steve Jobs or Bill Gates at home? When we are young, we dream of being firefighters, doctors or lawyers. Very few of us dream of being business owners or entrepreneurs. The Sauder School’s d.studio creates new kinds of leaders who will shape the future of the business [...]
Read moreCreative Business Thinking Week 2: the brain again
This week we began the session with play dough. The idea is that we do a creative warm-up each week — designed by one of the student teams. This team made their own colourful and scented play dough. We all had floods of memories around the feel and scent especially. A fun start to the [...]
Read moreCreative Business Thinking: a nordic approach — Week 1
Balder and Morten have arrived! Hurrah. The idea to invite two creative and talented PhD fellows from the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) to teach at Sauder emerged last spring during my 2month stay at CBS. Balder Onarheim (a industrial designer on the left below) and Morten de Friis-Olivarius (a neuroscientist on the right below) [...]
Read moreRe-inventing life in the swamp
[originally posted here] To borrow a delightful phrase from Soren Hansen and Henning Sejer-Jakobsen, one of the chief benefits of change labs for social innovation is that they allow us to lift our change process – “away from the swamp of everyday activities — routine, fear of failure, prejudice, bureaucracy and rules.” Instead, change labs offer [...]
Read mored.studio week 13: final climate smart review
Sauder commerce undergrads never cease to amaze me with their talent, commitment and creativity. At least the ones that choose to be part of the d.studio exhibit these traits. Last Wednesday was the final studio where we invited the CEOs of the 5 business that the students worked with during the major project of term [...]
Read moreDesign + Business
The d.studio brings design education, expertise and experience to students and organizations across private, public and social sectors.
The studio is led by seasoned designer and educator Moura Quayle, who specializes in designing and transforming organizations and learning environments, with the support of a passionate team of fellow educators and UBC students.









