Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder about our first session in the Innovation North Speaker Series, happening next Monday, October 21, from 3-4 pm ET. We are excited to have Cameron Tonkinwise, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), as our first speaker. He will be presenting on Designing System Transitions, focusing on how design can drive system-level changes toward more sustainable and equitable futures.
Here is a brief abstract of his presentation:
This presentation will introduce the concepts and techniques that are part of the emerging practice of Transition Designing. Transitions are ways of understanding how our societies might make the changes necessary to become more equitably and diversely sustainable. A focus of the presentation will be the relation between Transition Design and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs must design organisations that will sustain and diversify new kinds of value creation. When entrepreneurs do this, they are establishing a version of the future (when those new values will be mainstream) in the present, something that is sometimes called 'prefigurative politics.'
If you haven't already, please register for the Zoom link here: https://ivey-uwo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdemqpzstHNxC37umsDo2HcCmxDHtNpWN#/registration
Tima Bansal
tbansal@ivey.ca