Schedule
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
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
8:30 am
Conference Welcome, Keynote Speakers
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.
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.
9:55 AM
Break
Breathe, beverage, family, recharge
10:15 am
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?
11:30 AM
Lunch
Breathe, eat, reflect, fuel
A new bottom line: It’s time to radically reframe the ‘Return on Design’ for social good
12:00 pm
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?
1:15 PM
Break
Breathe, beverage, family, recharge
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.
3:00 PM
Break
Breathe, beverage, family, recharge
3:15 pm
Keynote Speakers, Closing Reflections
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.
5 PM
Conference Close
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