An ABSI Connect webinar with AnneMarie Dorland.
As changemakers, researchers and innovators, we have a unique opportunity to tackle existing problems in new ways. In this online workshop, we’ll use tools created in design studios around the world to “design our thinking” and to rewire our approach to creating collaborative and participatory social innovation work. Together we’ll explore how the key processes of ambiguity, failure and iteration go hand in hand to catalyze creativity and to support creative problem solving, and we’ll apply some of these processes to cases from our own experience. This online workshop will explore the foundational skills and mindsets of design thinking that changemakers, teams and leaders can put in place to make the world better — by design.
By the end of the online workshop, participants will be able to:
Apply evidence-based strategies that support the use of design thinking in change making work.
Identify some of the uses of design thinking in every day problem solving.
Describe the six key stages of a designed approach to thinking about wicked problems.
About the Presenter
AnneMarie Dorland is an Assistant Professor in the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University where she brings together her background as a graphic designer, brand strategist and qualitative researcher to develop innovative, creative and design-oriented undergraduate learning experiences. Her research explores creativity and creative problem solving practices such as designed approaches to thinking, and her scholarship is focused on using creative mental models to convert curiosity to learning in the classroom through mentorship and in partnership with students. Dorland is a contributor to several international publications on how we might design our thinking, and she is relentlessly optimistic about the ways that the practices of the design studio can help us create new and innovative ideas in marketing, branding and design work.