At the Sauder School of Business, Former Dean Dan Muzyka recognizes the strategic value of design thinking for business - and starts to explore options to integrate it into the School's curriculum.
Over a glass of wine, Professor Moura Quayle and Dean Dan Muzyka sketch out a plan to bring design education to the Sauder School of Business. The [alpha] d.studio begins.
Senior Design Strategist Denise Withers starts to work with Moura on strategic and curriculum design projects.
The d.studio embarks on a research project with colleagues at the University of Sydney in Australia to blend sustainability and design studio pedagogies.
Moura and Denise test their Opportunity Design process in two-day MBA workshop.
Moura spends 6 months visiting global b-schools to research pedagogy and practice in design education for business.
Moura and Denise challenge a mixed MBA cohort with their revised design process. Lesson learned: MBA students prefer neat packages to wicked problems!
Moura and Denise recruit SALA Professor Ron Kellett to co-create the pilot BCom d.studio course with them.
The d.studio wins a UBC grant to develop studio-based pedagogy and a community of practice for design education.
Three students join the d.studio part-time for a year to help build the community of practice and design resources.
Ronna Chisholm, Sauder MBA Alumnus and President of Dossier Creative, interviews Moura about design and how it adds value to business.
Moura and Ron teach first session of the d.studio BCom course with TA and MBA student Miguel Guerrero.
Moura joins the MBA Core Team, to find ways to embed design and other thinking strategies into the Core curricula.
Moura leads development of the Campus City Collaborative with six post-secondary institutions. The initiative includes partnership with City of Vancouver through City Studio.
Moura starts working with BC CEOs through the Centre for CEO Leadership at Sauder to use design processes and strategies to tackle complex business problems.
The Sauder d.studio launches its new brand, website and online community of practice with BuddyPress. This has since evolved into the current version, which includes design blogs and resources.
In celebration of the pilot BCom course wrap, the d.studio team joins with 30+ business leaders at the Museum of Vancouver to form a community of practice to explore the use of design thinking in business.
The d.studio wins a second TLEF grant to continue developing resources around design-based pedagogy and practice.
d.studio researcher Sunil Mirpuri writes five case studies on the value of different thinking strategies to business.
Moura establishes relationship with the studio team at Copenhagen Business School to advance shared learning strategies.
With funding from the second TLEF grant, the d.studio hires its second part-time student team to continue development of resources, curricula and the community of practice.
The d.studio brings the Design Thinker simulation to Sauder to introduce 35 staff members to design thinking.
d.studio RA Andreanne Doyon joins the team. Her research projects include an investigation into studio-based pedagogy for design education.
New MBA students experience an introduction to their design education through the Design Thinker simulation.
The d.studio team works with industry designers and a senior faculty member to co-create new approaches to engaging Finance students.
The d.studio co-hosts a visit with Christian Bason, Director of Innovation at MindLab in Denmark. (MindLab leads globally in Public Sector Innovation).
Moura, Ron, Denise and Andreanne team up to teach a two-part workshop to the U40 members of the Urban Development Institute, who are keen to learn design strategies and tactics.
Comm486J partners with City Studio and Climate Smart. Student teams go through Climate Smart training and work with eight start-up CEO's to help them "green" their businesses, in support of the City's Greenest City Action Plan.
Just in time for the start of the second Studio BCom course, the new d.studio opens in HA338. The Vancouver Sun features the d.studio in a story about Sauder's new building.
The Sauder d.studio joins with leaders from the BC Advisory Council for Social Innovation to lead the development of a collaborative lab network.
The d.studio team begins work on two projects to bring design-embedded education and coaching to the Seniors Action Plan team at the BC Ministry of Health.
Copenhagen Business School professors Daved Barry and Stefan Meisek connect to the d.studio via the new touchscreen and high-definition cameras for a live classroom session.
Moura teaches design process to an MMOR class, building on their existing skill set in operations research.
Two visiting professors from Copenhagen Business School (Balder Onarheim and Morten de Friis-Olivarius) teach an MBA module in creativity and Nordic design approaches for business.
She spent 2 days in San Francisco at the Business + Design + Sustainability Education Summit at the California College of the Arts to explore teaching and curriculum challenges.
To support the Ministry of Health work, our Senior Design Strategist immersed herself in this conference hosted at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto.
The d.studio continued to strengthen ties with the emerging Solutions Lab at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto at an invitation only event for social innovation lab leaders.
Senior consultant Angele Beausoleil joins d.studio in a research and teaching role, as she starts grad studies with Moura as Supervisor.
The team met with Providence's internal team to share tips and techniques to inform their emerging in-house innovation project.
BCom Marketing Coop Student Janice Loh and MBA grad Chris Francis join the d.studio for 3 months.
Working with Executive Education and two recent PhD graduates, we set out to design a new online program rooted in user research.
Moura travels to Barcelona to represent Vancouver at the WCCP. They decide on next year's joint research project - innovation labs for urban sustainability.
Moura presents the d.studio's first published paper on studio based pedagogy at EGOS in Helsinki.
Moura spends time with Bryan Boyer of the HDL, exploring their methods and strategic design approach.
Photographer and administrator extraordinaire Julie Larsen joins the team for two days a week. Hooray!
d.studio works with senior team to co-create a new kind of RFP that tackles complex, cross-sector problems.
Moura and Denise spend the day with leading strategic designers at Case Western University to discuss action research, curriculum and the future of the discipline.
The road trip continues to Rhode Island. 32 storytellers share experiences of organizational and personal innovation at BiF8 - followed by a workshop with Business Model Canvas guru Alex Osterwalder.
Phaedra Burke joins the d.studio team as our Design Researcher. Her role includes literature reviews, grant proposals, observations, writing and supporting d.studio endeavours.
Moura spent 3 days in Barcelona attending the Smart City Expo World Congress talking about campus-city collaborations as citizen engagement strategies.
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