d.studio week 12: Under One Roof — CityStudio event

Talking again about blocks to thinking — creatively and critically.  This time we reviewed emotional, cultural, environmental, intellectual and expressive blocks.  This studio was given over to working on the Climate Smart Projects and preparing for the CityStudio event at the Salt Building on Saturday March 31.

Week 12 was also a time for Florin and I to give the group some feedback that had been gleaned by iPEER.  iPEER is a program that is computer-based and allows team members to anonymously make comments and rank their team members in terms of a range of criteria.  It was a good opportunity for us to check in with each team and talk through some of the challenges and opportunities that have presented themselves throughout the group project.

As a partner course with the CityStudio http://citystudiovancouver.blogspot.ca/ the d.studio was invited to an event at the Salt Building on Saturday March 31.  We had a modest display of work from the Climate Smart project.  A huge thanks to Andreanne Doyon, our d.studio research assistant and to Steph Wilson, our student point person, for putting the display together and be there virtually all day — 11am-4pm.  Also a thanks to Mimi who stayed with the booth for a number of hours. The CityStudio this term is a “Semester in the City” from the Semester in Dialogue at SFU.  So there was a formal ‘dialogue’ from 1-3pm.  Mayor Robertson attended for a couple of hours, visiting students and finding out about their work that is helping make Vancouver the planet’s greenest city.

Here is a photo of Mimi and Andreanne engaging the passers-by…

And Week 13 is here.  On Wednesday April 4 from 2:30–5:30pm we’ll review the Climate Smart Project and we’ll all meet the CEO’s from the companies that the students have been working with.  Looking forward to it.

And a post-script:  the d.studio COMM 486J has been a pilot course for 2 years.  Last week it was approved by the Faculty Caucus to go to Senate.  The new number and name:  COMM 388:  Design Strategies for Business Innovation:  Studio Practice.

 

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