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March 5 – Conference Kick-Off – Design’s Strengths & Shadow

Design Thinking – What are the Critical Questions?

Supported by our graphic facilitator, we will kick off the conference through unearthing the key questions with which those of us leading design in the classroom and the workplace are grappling.

March 6 – Conference Learning

Conference Welcome, Keynote Speakers

Judy Mellett

As Director, Service Design & Strategy at TELUS Digital, Judy’s current focus centers on engaging in purposeful design and delivery of end-to-end service experiences that reinforces TELUS’ brand proposition and sustains customer loyalty.

George Aye

Understanding design’s relationship with power means rethinking what good design means

Conventional design has principles for what good is, from luminaries like Dieter Rams, but when the design work serves non-profit organizations instead of business organizations, we need a new way to evaluate what good is. Form and function aren’t going to cut it when you’re working with issues like recidivism, systemic racism, or the social determinants of health. Whether you’re a changemaker inside of a non-profit or a for-profit organization, designing change is hard to do, especially when the change involves people and their behaviors.

Break

Breathe, beverage, family, recharge

Concurrent Sessions 1

ROOM 1

Melissa Dobson and Joseph Varughese (20 minutes): Design Thinking as a Valuable Tool for Ideation and Iteration of Solutions to Clinical Challenges in Rehabilitation Medicine Project Based Learning

Joe Musicco (20 minutes): The Innovation Accelerator: Teaching Design Thinking to Non-Design Students

Rita Egizii (20 minutes): What is the Problem?  Design-Thinking from an Entrepreneurial Perspective

ROOM 2

Anjana Dattani and Angèle Beausoleil (20 minutes): Comic Book Business Case: An experiential learning activity to build your creative confidence

Ingrid Kajzermitchell (20 minutes): How to leverage Mural for Design Thinking in the virtual classroom

ROOM 3

Jacqueline Antalik and Winnie Ho (55 minutes): Reframing problems to inspire innovative solutions

ROOM 4

Malena Gonzalez (55 minutes): How might you be able to start incorporating Design Thinking into your curriculum?

Lunch

Breathe, eat, reflect, fuel

Ledia Andrawes

A new bottom line: It’s time to radically reframe the ‘Return on Design’ for social good

Concurrent Sessions 2

ROOM 1

Angele Beausoleil (55 minutes): Teaching design to non-designers: how one business school is transforming learners into leaders

ROOM 2

Stephen Bell (55 minutes): It Can Be Done: Delivering a Design Thinking Course in Asynchronous Online Model

ROOM 3

Diane Pruneau (20 minutes): Design thinking and solutions for a plastic problem

Charles Krusekopf (20 minutes):Design Your Life: How to join a network when you are an outsider?

Break

Breathe, beverage, family, recharge

Panel Discussion: How might design thinking be a force of good?

Panelists:  Ledia Andrawes, George Aye, Tania Anaissie

A conversation between three practitioners who embrace design thinking while critiquing some of the dominant approaches to its practice–and exploring new, more power-sensitive ways of approaching design thinking practice.

Break

Breathe, beverage, family, recharge

Keynote Speakers, Closing Reflections

Tania Anaissie

Doreen Arrowmaker

Looking Beyond the Surface

To adopt a design attitude in Design Thinking is to embrace challenges with a sense of confidence, optimism, acceptance of ambiguity, and persistence. The solutions to these challenges may appear to be impossible to solve. In tackling these challenges, one must start to dissect all the reasons and to start constructing with how.

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