Designing Group Dynamics through Movement
From Terri Chan’s recent blog post on the Social Presencing Theatre workshop: In this post, we will explore ideas of presence and movement to further dialogue from only words, and the immense power...
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Exploring the Neuroscience of Peak Performance
Bodies, Brains & Peak Performance in the Workplace How do we reach a flow state and perform at our best? How might we enhance self-awareness of our capacity to perform at peak? Reaching peak...
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How do we Design with Dialogue? (Revisiting the MIT Dialogue Project)
April 2014 DwD – DwD as a core practice: How do we (actually) Design with Dialogue? Where can we find design in dialogue? How might we design more productive dialogue and how does dialogue shape...
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Facilitating Co-Creation – Design Patterns for Dialogue
How do we design dialogues? With 35 participants, July’s DwD explored the patterns for design for dialogue events, for clients, organizations, and communities. We explored the patterns and elements of...
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Michael Jones: Re-generating the Soul of the City
Placemaking Toronto with Michael Jones August’s DwD was led by Michael Jones with an exploration of placemaking in Toronto. Ideas from his latest book, The Soul of Place: Reimagining Leadership through...
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Action Methods and Dramatic Expression: Finding your Role in Community...
November 2014 DwD hosted over 25 participants. After introductions, Stephen Sillett cleared the space and everyone got on their feet and we positioned ourselves on a simple Spectrogram, an highly...
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The Co-evolution of Connected Citizens in Canadian Governance
Can we motivate civil society to form a collaborative approach to Canadian governance? How will governing – public decision making – be influenced through citizens evolving new digital and place-based...
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Creative Leadership for Climate Change
Creative Leadership for Climate Change at the Intersection of Art & Neuroscience By Kelly Okamura and Don Officer Except for a few stubborn holdouts most of us are convinced climate change is...
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Cultural Values & Social Change: The Common Cause Framework
How do cultural values shape environmental and social movements? How might deepening our understanding of cultural values and frames help us to co-create the solutions for a more equitable, sustainable...
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Innovative Learning in Canadian Higher Education
April’s DwD was convened by an graduate student-led panel, organized by Strategic Innovation Lab and Strategic Foresight & Innovation, responding to the question: What new ways of learning,...
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Co-Creating Civic Proposals for Systemic Change
How might we move or collective thinking and action beyond single-issue social action? Does it make sense to build our urban worlds and future societies by winning one political issue at a time? Can we...
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Acting in Networks of Influence
How we can ground our work concretely, by considering multiple stakeholders that may influence project outcomes? How do we get a handle on who, or what, influences the changes that occur in situations?...
View ArticleParticipatory Design Inquiry for Flourishing Fashion | DwD 04.13.16
How do we build trust in a complex multi-stakeholder relationship where the product is based on price? Apparel matters. We wear clothes throughout our life, yet little thought is given to modern...
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Designing Places & Spaces for New Learning
How might Youth Spaces in the education system support student goals and aspirations? What can we do better having learned from observing decades of Toronto’s alternative schools? How might we...
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Designing for Play – How to Play your Work
In the March DwD session with Farzad Sedghipour, we explored the importance of finding play in our work through a semi-structured facilitated workshop. Roughly 20 members of Toronto’s innovation...
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Deliberating on Values in Digital Democracy
The July DwD hosted a mixed group of designers, curious citizens and community activists to engage in the inquiry and workshop Exploring Values in Digital Democracy. The primary purpose of the workshop...
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Worldbuilding: A Workshop on Shared Futuring
The first of two foresight workshops presented by Strategic Foresight and Innovation students was held in September with Maheen Zaidi sharing a methodology being proposed for long-horizon transition...
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Decolonizing Futures through Storytelling | DwD 10.11.17
DwD presents a series of sessions this Autumn based on methods taught in OCADU’s Strategic Foresight and Innovation and now further explored in student research in narrative visioning practices. Pupul...
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Futures of Journalism: Truth, Power, and Media
The February DwD Future(s) of Journalism for . The conversation is structured to elicit progressive proposals to the problematics of three focal questions: How might we create insightful, enterprising,...
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Innovative Learning in Canadian Higher Education
April’s DwD was convened by an graduate student-led panel, organized by Strategic Innovation Lab and Strategic Foresight & Innovation, responding to the question: What new ways of learning,...
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