People

sLab (Strategic Innovation Lab) is an extraordinary community of design researchers, practitioners, business professionals, teachers and students who are passionate about envisioning possible futures, together. Below are many of the people who make up this community.

Greg Van Alstyne Co-founding Director, sLab Assoc. Professor, Faculty of Design Co‑founder, DEMO Publishing Director Emeritus, IwB	Peter Jones Director of Research, sLab Associate Professor, School of Graduate Studies Co-founder, Systemic Design Association	Peter Scott Senior Research Associate, sLab Instructor, Faculty of Arts & Science Alumnus, SFI Program
Tania De Gasperis sLab Research Affiliate Alumna, Strategic Foresight & Innovation	Kaveh Ashourinia sLab Research Affiliate Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Co-founder, Quantization Podcast Founder, Typodiversity	Ignacio Giménez Rebollo sLab Research Advisor Design Lead, KoboToolbox.org
Gregorio Magarelli sLab UX and Strategy Assistant Alumnus, Strategic Foresight and Innovation	Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez sLab Research Associate	Shreya Chopra sLab Research Affiliate Alumna, Strategic Foresight & Innovation
David Ing Adjunct Professor, SGS Steward, sLab Fellow, Creative Systemic Research Platform Institute Co-founder, Systems Thinking Ontario Past-President, International Society for the Systems Sciences	Zaid Khan Steward, sLab Researcher, Creative Systemic Research Platform Institute Alumnus, SFI Program

Lenore Richards (director emeritus) Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Design Director Emeritus, Strategic Foresight & Innovation Program Co-founder, sLab	Jeremy Bowes Founder, SystemCity Group Professor, SFI Program; Professor, Environmental Design
Nabil Harfoush Convener, SSBMG, sLab Assistant Professor, SFI	Helen Kerr Professor, SFI Professor, Faculty of Design
Suzanne Stein Associate Professor, SFI / Digital Futures Director, Super Ordinary Lab	Kate Sellen Founder, Envision Health Group, sLab Director, Health Design Studio Assistant Professor, Design for Health Program Canada Research Chair, Health Design
Robert Logan Co-founder & Chief Scientist, sLab Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Toronto	Lisanne Binhammer Undergraduate RA, sLab
Trevor Haldenby Graduate RA, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program	Richard Hunt Assistant Professor, Faculty of Design
Petri Tanninen Graduate RA, sLab	Zan Chandler Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program
Oksana Kachur Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program	Evi K. Hui Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab
Daniel Kim Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab	Gabe Sawhney Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program
Antony Upward, CMC Visiting Prof, Halmstad University, Sweden Flourishing Enterprise Designer Cofounder, Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group Cofounder, Flourishing Enterprise Institute Principal, Edward James Consulting Ltd	Garry Ing Co-founder, DEMO research group, sLab sLab Research Associate OCAD University alumnus
Phouphet Sihavong Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program	Uma Maharaj Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Graduate Program
Karl Schroeder Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program	Madeline Ashby Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program
Pedro Castro Graduate Research Assistant, sLab	Nicholas Kalimin Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab
Jonathan Veale Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program	Rob Tilley Graduate Research Assistant Alumnus, SFI Program
Richard Norman Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program	Josina Vink Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program
Jazeen Hollings Program Designer, sLab DesignJam Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab	Alexander Appugliesi Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab
Ghazaleh Etezal Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab	Spencer Saunders Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program
Naseer Roopani Graduate Research Assistant, sLab	Chris Lange Undergraduate Research Assistant
Andrew Jenkins Instructor, OCAD U Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences	Jonathan Resnick Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program
Peg Lahn Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program	Medina Abdelkader Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program
Stephen Davies Senior Researcher, sLab Co-founder, DesignJam	Stuart Candy Assistant Professor, SFI Program Co-founder, Situation Lab
Jacqueline To Service Designer, sLab DesignJam Alumna, SFI Program	Angith Mohan Service Coordinator, sLab DesignJam
Kelly Kornet Graduate Research Assistant. sLab Alumna, SFI Program	Zoe Worsnip Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab
Goran Matic Alumnus, SFI MDes program sLab Research Affiliate	Farzad Sedgipour Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumnus, SFI Program
Patrick Robinson Operations Director, DesignJam	George Wang Community Manager, DesignJam
Christine McGlade Senior Partner, Analytical Engine Interactive Inc. MDes Candidate, SFI, 2017 Co-founder, Futures of Social Innovation Research Group	Ned Rava Co-founder, Futures of Social Innovation Research Group sLab Research Advisor
Leah Zaidi Consultant Co-founder, Futures of Social Innovation Research Group	Adrienne Pacini Graduate Research Assistant, sLab Alumna, SFI Program
Chris Chopik sLab Research Affiliate Alumnus, SFI Program	Carl Skelton sLab Research Advisor Director, Gotham Innovation Greenhouse, NY
Michele Mastroeni Graduate Program Director, Strategic Foresight & Innovation	Mathura Mahendren Candidate, MDes in SFI
Priyasha Singh Undergraduate Research Assistant, sLab OCAD U Alumna, BDes in Environmental Design	Riley McCullogh Candidate, MDes in Strategic Foresight & Innovation

Research highlights

Synthesis Maps | Gigamaps

Large-scale information maps relevant to complex problem areas selected by Systemic Design students in OCAD University's SFI MDes program

Systemic Design Association

Advancing systemic design: the integrative practice & theory of visualizing, designing & governing diverse socio-technical systems

Economic Futures for Ontario 2032

An Ontarian-centred foresight project investigating divergent, future economic prospects through our needs & wants, behaviours, cultures & expectations, now through 2032.

Design Emergence Media Organization (DEMO)

DEMO Publishing presents new genres and formats of interdisciplinary design and media theory and practice

Systemic Design and Its Discontents: Designing with Emergence and Accountability

This paper from RSD7 explains the power of systemic design to bring positive change & unintended consequences. We argue for alloying systemic design with ethics, social justice & data literacy. Read the paper.

What is "precompetitive innovation"?

Pre-competitive purposes / innovation / research / collaboration refers to early stage, multi-sector, “market development” efforts that aim to open up space and capacity for cooperation & competition by developing knowledge, expectations, standards.

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People

Greg Van Alstyne

Peter Jones

Peter Scott

Tania De Gasperis

Kaveh Ashourinia

Ignacio Giménez Rebollo

Gregorio Magarelli

Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez

Shreya Chopra

David Ing

Zaid Khan

Lenore Richards (director emeritus)

Jeremy Bowes

Nabil Harfoush

Helen Kerr

Suzanne Stein

Kate Sellen

Robert Logan

Lisanne Binhammer

Trevor Haldenby

Richard Hunt

Petri Tanninen

Zan Chandler

Oksana Kachur

Evi K. Hui

Daniel Kim

Gabe Sawhney

Antony Upward, CMC

Garry Ing

Phouphet Sihavong

Uma Maharaj

Karl Schroeder

Madeline Ashby

Pedro Castro

Nicholas Kalimin

Jonathan Veale

Rob Tilley

Richard Norman

Josina Vink

Jazeen Hollings

Alexander Appugliesi

Ghazaleh Etezal

Spencer Saunders

Naseer Roopani

Chris Lange

Andrew Jenkins

Jonathan Resnick

Peg Lahn

Medina Abdelkader

Stephen Davies

Stuart Candy

Jacqueline To

Angith Mohan

Kelly Kornet

Zoe Worsnip

Goran Matic

Farzad Sedgipour

Patrick Robinson

George Wang

Christine McGlade

Ned Rava

Leah Zaidi

Adrienne Pacini

Chris Chopik

Carl Skelton

Michele Mastroeni

Mathura Mahendren

Priyasha Singh

Riley McCullogh

Research highlights