d.studio week 13: the finale
The d.studio Community of Practice was launched on Wednesday December 1 — just after the 24 students in the d.studio course presented their final projects to their clients. The event was in the Museum of Vancouver. As a side-note it was amazing how many people don’t know where the Museum of Vancouver is — or what […]
d.studio week 12: 3-d design thinking
This week was essentially the last d.studio class of 2010. Evaluations were completed. And each team presented their storyboards for the presentation next week. As I said mid-way through: “Ron and I failed to explain storyboards well enough.” Most of the presentations were indeed that — skeletal presentations of what is to come next week. […]
d.studio Week 8: reflections and lift-off
In some ways this feels like the start of the real studio. Probably because I am used to a format that has students working each studio day in studio mode — working in groups or individually on their projects. We began last Wednesday’s class with some reflections. The students had completed an “early term feedback” […]
d.studio week 7: launching 4 real-world projects
The rehearsal is over. It is show-time. The studio this week was buzzing with anticipation: the clients were coming. In the days previous to the Wednesday studio, students were requested to review short summaries of projects from a variety of sponsors or clients from a range of sectors from financial services to energy to health. […]
The students speak…Part 2
And here are some more quotes from d-studio student blogs… Emma: I was so glad that Elsie and I were first. We love talking and we work together like we are one person so the presentation aspect of the assignment was probably the easiest for us. It was awesome that we finished on time as […]
d-studio week 6: the students speak part 1…
We invited several guest critics to view the projects that the students prepared — a new or revised business model pitch and a headline/press release. The critics were: Ronna Chisholm: Business Direction, Dossier Creative; Don Chisholm: Creative Direction, Dossier Creative; Kara Pecknold: Olive Life Group; Professor Darren Dahl: Marketing, UBC Sauder School of Business; Professor […]
d-studio week 5: trying out the design thinker
So much fun to see people engaged in learning. This time it was the undergraduate commerce students’ turn to try out the design thinker simulation. In case this is your first time on this blog Design Thinker:Experience Innovation is a 3.5 hour workshop which is the product of a collaboration between Experience Point (HQ in […]
d-studio week 4: integration in action
Integration and collaboration are indeed possible to learn in an environment where students are encouraged to connect the dots amongst the various disciplines and pieces of information and insight that they accumulate over terms and years. But we seem to have trouble setting up these types of environments for our students. There are always demands […]
d-studio week 3: What did you say? What did you hear?
Can hardly believe we have had week 3 of the B.Com d-studio. Week 3’s theme was around the critique — a common activity in any design studio. We had our usual warm-up time — this week it was around drawing insights, an exercise taken from Betty Edward’s book: “Drawing on the Artist Within”. […]
MBAs as Design Thinkers
As part of the orientation for the full-time MBAs at the UBC Sauder School of Business the students and faculty participated in the Design Thinker Workshop. Design Thinker:Experience Innovation is a 3.5 hour workshop which is the product of a collaboration between Experience Point (HQ in Toronto) and IDEO, a global innovation and design firm […]