Students, social entrepreneurs, designers and stakeholders participated in the first regional DesignJam in Waterloo to get involved in social causes. Read the full story in Waterloo University's site.
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.
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.