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Royal Roads Design Thinking

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Conference Agenda

NOTE: The following is from the 2022 event. Check back later to see details on our 2023 event.

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

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4:30pm-5:30pm

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

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8:30 am

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.

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9:55 AM

Break

Breathe, beverage, family, recharge

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11:30 AM

Lunch

Breathe, eat, reflect, fuel

Ledia Andrawes

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

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1:15 PM

Break

Breathe, beverage, family, recharge

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1:30 pm

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.

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3:00 PM

Break

Breathe, beverage, family, recharge

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3:15 pm

Keynote Speakers, Closing Reflections

Tania Anaissie

(Re)designing Design for Today’s World: Aligning our design practice to our liberation values
In design’s translation from the for-profit to social sectors it brought with it some harmful practices that no longer serve us. Come learn about an emergent field of practitioners who are redesigning design to serve as a powerful tool for liberation and explore how you could better align your own practice to your values.

 

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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5 PM

Conference Close

 

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