Vancouver Design Nerds Jam!
On April 29th, Vancouver Design Nerds are teaming up with the Biomimicry Group, Cascadia Green Building Council and their Emerging Green Builders to bring you one AWESOMELY inspiring Jam. Register and join the fun here.
If the 4th graders can achieve this, what can business students accomplish?
I do not usually watch the TED Talk videos. However, in my spare time, I browse the World Wide Web for new ideas and by accident, I stumbled upon the talk of John Hunter on the World Peace Game. Teacher and musician John Hunter is the inventor of the mentioned World Peace Game. „The game […]
A Global Rethink
It has become a habit to comb through my Monocle each month to see what might be of interest to people who don’t buy Monocle or follow it on-line. We all are in “over-load” in terms of what we can possibly digest in terms of news, information and perspectives. So here are a series of […]
Open IDEO winners announced: How to increase the number of registered marrow donors?
OpenIDEO recently announced 10 winning concepts for its challenge: How might we increase the number of registered marrow donors to help save more lives? You can read more about the winning concepts here. And stay tuned for more: in the next few weeks they will be launching a new challenge phase called Realisation, which will enable […]
All about stories…
Had a great lunch last week in North Melbourne with Shawn Callahan of Anecdote. We met at the Auction Room which is a relatively new neighbourhood restaurant in the area where Anecdote’s offices are now located. I was able to walk from the Spot Building (where my office has been for the last two weeks […]
Melbourne Conversations Part 2
Melbourne and Vancouver share the spotlight for liveable cities — but we also share some real challenges around transportation, affordable housing, growth strategies and so on. It is easy to have downtown Vancouver or downtown Melbourne as your point of reference re: livability. But the challenges are no doubt in our metro regions. The first […]
d.studio marketing blitz
What happens when you put two talented Sauder undergrads to work on marketing the d.studio for next spring’s sessions? Wow. Selena Shannon and Ryan Yu took on the task of making the sauder community aware of design thinking and of the Spring 2012 d.studio offering. Their marketing plan looked like this: week one: presence @Sauder Digital […]
Melbourne Conversations
Someone at The Economist thinks that Vancouver and Melbourne are doing something right. We vie for top spot in the livability rankings. Should we really hold our heads high as the world’s most liveable cities? I was on a panel in Melbourne this week entitled “Employment, Mobility and Living in a Growing City” […]