How Simple Ideas Lead to Discovery
How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discovery: Right away I was intrigued with the idea that simplicity was the answer to my problems. After having issues trying to determine my team’s direction for project 4, I thought this talk might foreshadow the direction my thinking needed to go in. By the end of the talk […]
Reflection 4: A Team is more than the Sum of its Parts
Over my past four years at Sauder it seems like I am constantly working in 3-6 teams at a time. Every class has a huge group project due at the end of term where each member of the team receives the same grade. To say the least it is very stressful especially when you are […]
Reflection 4: Team Personas
So far the teamwork and dynamics that I’ve learned the most from was when we were brainstorming ideas for the Sauder open house. We went through the entire design process and came up with several ideas. I knew in my head that some of these ideas were not going to work but part of being […]
Design Thinking: Outside of the d.studio
Hi guys, As some of you touched on, people always ask say, “Whoa, that classroom look cool! What do you do?” There is no exact or obvious answer, because we- d.studio students- do a lot of different activities in and outside of the classroom. After listing out activities such as listening to entrepreneurs, working with […]
Open House Idea Generation
Last week in the studio, we were given the opportunity to work in small teams to come up with ideas on how to showcase the d.Studio in the upcoming Sauder Open House. We were very enthusiastic and jumped right in! However, after reading Beckman and Barry’s innovation process, I feel that our group, or at […]
Top Business Schools Offer Creative New Programs
Two of the world’s leading business schools, Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Boston’s Harvard Business School, are really expanding their horizons. They are offering exciting, outside-the-box alternatives to traditional approaches to business education. Both are providing opportunities for students to experience learning which is more team-oriented, more hands-on and more focused on new ideas […]
d.studio week 9: Daved Barry visits from Copenhagen Business School
Sauder has a strategic alliance with the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). This means that we go way beyond the typical Memorandum of Understanding which can often (not always) just mean that institution x will cooperate with institution y and send a few students or faculty members on exchange. The strategic alliance has both business schools […]
d.studio week 8: six thinking hats + conditions for creativity
Playing catch up. Week 8 (almost two weeks ago!) followed the reading break week — which of course necessitated getting us all back in gear. One of the challenges of having the studio only once a week is momentum and the feeling that you have to pack a lot into 3 hours. On the other […]
Reflection 3: Understanding of the design process
The design process is not something that is simple and easy to understand. There are numerous different models and process to follow but evidently they all end up some what the same. The design process involves steps, steps that require thinking, time, effort and determination. As Schon’s Reflection-in-Action, or Beckman’s integration of the learning process […]
Designers. Are we our own worst enemies?
The good folks behind Profit By Design generously invited me to attend their conference at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD) last weekend, in my emerging role as the “something or other” at the Sauder d.studio.** The two-day event featured a series of presentations and panels focused mainly on product and industrial design. […]