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 […]
d.studio week 11: prototyping a revised B.Comm.
The students in the d.studio never cease to amaze me. I feel energized by their presence. Week 11 was going to be a “studio-time” for their projects but an opportunity arose for them to help the Sauder Business School in its process of imagining a revised Bachelor of Commerce Program. The committee working on this […]
d.studio week 10: improv hits the studio
Sometimes it is time to wing it. To improvise. And get the energy flowing. This week in the studio Florin, our intrepid teaching assistant, took on the role of “improv” innovator. He even got a bit academic: Why improv? When participants are able to break free from cognitive, emotional, and behavioural bounds of socially […]
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 […]
A visit to MindLab: the essence of innovation
I was lucky enough to spend 90 minutes visiting Christian Bason, Director of Innovation, at MindLab on a frosty day in Copenhagen last week. Through the Sauder d.studio, Professor Moura Quayle and I have been invited to help shape a proposal for a new social innovation “change lab” in British Columbia with the B.C. Advisory Council […]
d.studio week 6: Climate Smart Business
What business has worked with 550 small and medium size businesses, 49,000 employees and saved 416,000 tonnes of C02? Answer: Climate Smart. https://climatesmartbusiness.com/ This week in the d.studio students were taken through a “short-form” of the training session that Climate Smart Businesses receive when they sign-up for the program that helps them lighten their footprints and […]
d.studio week 5: Ask.Try.Do
It was time to review the process: Ask.Try.Do. And, importantly, experience it in a short time. So we spent the afternoon designing the experience of the visitor to the Sauder Building Opening Celebration on March 1. In a way it was the perfect opportunity to put Ask.Try.Do into action on a problem that was close […]
d.studio week 4: the CEOs return…
What do Paul Lambert, Eesmyal Santos-Brault, Winnie Lai, Lindsay Watt, Colin Doylend, Amelia Ufford, Steve Rio and Octav Druta have in common? They are all CEOs of exciting new companies. And they generously shared their time and expertise with students from the Sauder d.studio. The idea of the project was to provide the students with […]
d.studio week 3: Eye Phone
Warm-ups are critical in the d.studio — students are coming from accounting classes or operations classes where their analytical, convergent thinking skills are in high gear. I want them to transition to a balanced environment. In week 2, students did a free write. And this week they were plunged into drawing — but not “artistic, […]