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 […]
Prof. Larry Leifer: Dancing with Ambiguity
Prof. Larry Leifer, Stanford University Dancing with Ambiguity: Embracing the Tension between Innovation and Decision-making in the Design Process Abstract: Over the past thirty years, a powerful methodology for innovation has emerged. It integrates human, business and technical factors in problem forming, solving and design: “Design-Thinking.” This human-centric philosophy integrates expertise from the design, social, […]
Christian Bason: The MindLab Approach
Christian Bason: The MindLab Approach How to Co-Create for Innovation Ever thought government could be run better and be more innovative? Then join us for a discussion on innovation in the public sector with Christian Bason. Christian is Director of MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also the author of three […]
the new sauder studio team
As UBC settles into the new school year, a new team is beginning their work with the studio. This post will introduce you to the new team members. Andréanne Doyon is the studio’s fulltime Research Assistant. She has a MA in Urban Planning and a BA in Sociology and Asian Studies from UBC as well […]
Testing out thinking techniques…
Convergent. Divergent. Analytical. Integrative. Critical Thinking. Design Thinking. It is one thing to talk about these Thinking Strategies in the abstract and even to outline a process in two-dimensional form. It is another to get right down and try out both the processes and the techniques that can support them. One of my design challenges […]
Ideas resource to check out
Check out this interesting website: 99%. It provides insights on productivity, organization and leadership. “It is not about ideas. It is about making ideas happen.”