d.studio week 2: start-up CEOs!
What is one of the best ways to learn about business? Doing it! Creating a business from the ground up. And the next best thing may be hearing from and getting to know people who are starting businesses. The d.studio students and I were in awe of the eight young entrepreneurs who visited (or skyped […]
New Members Join D.studio Team
The d.studio welcomes two new additions to its team: Florin Gheorghe and Veronique West. Florin Gheorghe is the Teaching Assistant for the d.studio course. He is in the first year of a Masters in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, and juggles interests in healthcare innovation, creativity, and international development. In his BASc, also at UBC, Florin […]
d.studio week 1
Launching the 2012 d.studio — COMM 486J for Sauder undergraduates. In catch-up mode — it is week 3 and here I am just blogging about Week 1. That’s what happens when you take 5 days out to go to Maui! This year it is exciting — we are occupying an actual studio space (albeit not […]
Lifestreams: Rethinking the Internet
It might be time to rethink the way we organize digital media. Yale professor, author and conservative social critic David Gelernter believes that the way the internet is currently structured is impractical and chaotic. To him, the shapeless multitude of loosely connected files which makes up the web runs counter to the natural way we […]
Profit By Design Conference at Emily Carr
Some of the leading brands and organizations from around the world will be coming to the heart of Vancouver to discuss creative-led innovation. Find out how design first strategies are profiting some of the foremost international businesses. From February 24th to 25th, Industry experts will present an exciting array of speakers, case-studies, panels, workshops and […]
Campus City Collaborative
Last night Mayor Gregor Robertson launched the Campus City Collaborative at the CityStudio — the hub of sustainability education that is burgeoning under the Cambie Street Bridge (in a great studio space). Energetic students from our six post secondary institutions in the City have been working on real projects to demonstrate what can be done […]
Innovate BC
On Friday November 25, 500 or so people gathered to talk about ‘Collective Impact through Social Innovation”
d.studio marker required
d.studio. Thinking Strategies. Co-creativity. COMM 486J will be offered again starting in January. It will run in the brand new d.studio space (HA 338) on Wednesdays from 2:30-5:30pm. Here is the job posting: Comm 486J d.studio Marker Job Posting Apparently application forms are available from the wall pocket beside the job posting board — I […]
Re-thinking undergraduate business education
The Copenhagen Round Table was an opportunity to reflect on the future of undergraduate business education. UBC Sauder School of Business and the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) have formed what we are calling a “strategic alliance” — in other words — beyond the generic Memorandum of Understanding towards something real and meaningful. So much so […]
Celebrate Learning Week at UBC
Time to focus on our core mandate — learning. It’s also a time when we display our Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant posters for people to see what we have been up to on the learning innovation side of things. Here is the Sauder Studio poster for this year — designed and executed by […]