urban innovation

How can we enable smart citizens to co-design better services in cities? In this interactive workshop, you will learn about how co-design can enable smart citizens’ capability for co-designing better public services. We will look at design as a tool for transition to a common community-building process.

This workshop is based on work done by Desis Lab Elisava to engage citizens of Barcelona in co-production processes (see here for more). The city of Barcelona faces challenges for achieving higher quality, more realistic and sustainable public services. The Municipality of Barcelona is committed to collaboration with citizens and local stakeholders to explore what citizen-led smart cities can look like, such as improving efficiency of services (read more here).

This workshop is intended to:

• Enable you to learn about new tools and processes used in fostering city building community processes in co-production with policy makers and citizens on the basis of a case study of Barcelona
• Highlight the work of Arianna Mazzeo and her team at DESIS Lab Elisava (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability at Elisava Design School in Barcelona) as co-designer and transitions facilitators
• Learn from participants in a mutual collaborative dialogue
   

Who should participate: This case study and workshop is for public sector innovators, design civil servants, policy makers, service designers, city builders, and lab practitioners (and any others who want to help make Toronto a better place).

Agenda

1. Case study: Who owns the smart city? Smart Citizens (25 mins)
2. Q&A/ discussion (15-20 mins)
3. Demo/ Hands on – co-creation piece (approx. 45 mins) (Please bring a smartphone to capture your work!)

Organized by Futures of Social Innovation research group, sLab
Hosted by MaRS Solutions Lab and OCAD University's sLab

About Arianna Mazzeo

Professor of Design for Social and Digital Innovation at Elisava Design School and Engineering, Arianna is Leader of DESIS Lab ELISAVA-DESIS Network. She is also Director of the Masterlab in Service Design for Place and Community Building (http://www.elisava.net/en/studies/masterlab-service-design-place-and-community-building), the Research Group and Collective CAMBIO and co-leading TIME (Teaching Innovation through Experiments group), dedicated to the transition from old to new design education scenarios and training professors, practitionnaires, designers, artists, makers interesting in researching through creativity and design. She is also curator-maker of creative formats for festivals ( Open Design Festival Capetown, South Africa; Armenia Art Fair-Design Conversations), collaborating with museums outreach programs( V&A Digital Design Weekend), Fablabs network and emergent design and performing arts hubs( Marseille Living lab) to foster multidisciplinarity, peer to peer learning and collaboration. She had worked in Cameroon, Turkey, Armenia and South Africa for Local Govern on civic-coproduction programs for the future creative scenario of community building, participation, and collaboration and civic commons- community building using creativity format as platform of social and digital innovation. She works and collaborates regularly with UNIFEM, UNESCO, EESC-European Economic and Social Committee, United Nations, Victoria and Albert Museum, Xschool, GSMA, Open Design Festival Cape Town, and European Network of Culture and Creativity.

"How might we diversify our economic foundation, support young people in transition, build and foster diversity and revitalize downtown areas in Northern Ontario cities?"

A Collective Discussion for Northern Ontario is a unique event for 50 people at two locations, downtown Sault Ste. Marie and downtown Toronto, to explore economic development and social innovation in Northern Ontario, through Design Thinking processes. The speakers will be simulcast to both locations, and the workshops will be co-facilitated locally together with north / south shared reporting. 

• See image album from this event
• Visit #NorthJam: Collective Discussion for Northern Ontario at https://DesignJam.ocadu.ca 

Speakers 

• Andre Morriseau, Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB)
• Rebecca Commanda, Northern Ontario entrepreneur
• Dr. Gayle Broad, NORDIK Institute, Algoma University
• Ashleigh Sauvé, Northern Ontario entrepreneur

Agenda:

9:00 AM      Registration, light refreshments & networking

9:30 AM      Welcome and Introduction   

9:40 AM       Lightning Talk: Andre Morriseau, Setting the Context

9:50 AM       Lightning Talk: A First Hand Experience as an entrepreneur
                    in Northern Ontario: Rebecca Commanda

10:00 AM     Questions and Reflections

10:10 AM     Design Thinking Interactive Activity: Stakeholders and Empathy Maps

12:10 PM     LUNCH will be served

1:00 PM       Welcome back      

1:05 PM       Northern Communities in Transition: Dr. Gayle Broad

1:15 PM       A First Hand Experience as a Social Entrepreneur in Northern Ontario: Ashleigh Sauvé

1:25 PM       Questions and Reflections

1:45 PM       Design Thinking Interactive Activity: Crowd Clover

3:30 PM       Planning Session:
                     INTERSECTION in North Ontario:
                     Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation Conference
                     to be held in Sault Ste. Marie in summer, 2017

 4:30 PM       CLOSE

This gathering, which is the precursor to a larger conference in Summer 2017, will be led by OCAD University and Algoma University in a unique partnership between Northern and Southern Ontario institutions, bringing together in depth knowledge of entrepreneurship and social innovation from the North and Design Thinking processes from the South.

Expert "Lightning Talks" will set the context, describing entrepreneurship and social innovation in Northern Ontario and proposing why is it important as an engine economic development as well as for social change. The interactive sessions facilitate connections and conversations, bringing clarity to the topic, surfacing existing initiatives, nurturing potential partnerships and strengthening collective commitment to entrepreneurship and social innovation in Northern Ontario.

The results of this conference will shape a larger conference called INTERSECTION in North Ontario: Entrepreneurship and Social innovation. This will be a larger, two-day event in the city of Sault Ste. Marie, which will build on the August conference and develop further conversations and connections across Northern Ontario.

Andre Morriseau (Ojibway) is Director of Awards and Communications for the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) and an enthusiastic advocate and ambassador for Aboriginal arts, culture and public affairs. A member of Fort William First Nation (Thunder Bay) where he maintains a home, Mr. Morriseau is based in Toronto. As former host of UrbaNative at CIUT, and Nation to Nation on Aboriginal Voices Radio, he shared countless stories of Indigenous peoples' experiences. Andre also worked for National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF, now Indspire) and Chiefs of Ontario (COO). He has served on boards including Ontario Arts Council (OAC), ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Native American Journalist's Association (NAJA) and Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Mr. Morriseau is recipient of City of Toronto Aboriginal Affairs Award and Jer’s Vision Canada’s Youth Role Model of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.

Rebecca Commanda  “Wayna Booozhoo, GichitwaaNagamon Kwe Ndizhnikaas, Genaabaajing ndonjibaa, Makwa ndoodem, Odawa minawaa Algonquin Kwe endow. Hello, My spirit name is Sacred Song Woman. My home community is Serpent River First Nation. I am part of the bear clan. I am a woman from the Odawa and Algonquin Nation. My English name is Rebecca Ursula Mary Commanda.” Rebecca is a recent graduate that received an Honours in Sociology and a minor Anishinaabemowin Program at Algoma University and Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig. She was part of Shingwauk Anishinaabe Students Association (SASA) for three years and during her time on SASA the goal was to ease the transition of Anishinaabe, Metis and Inuit students to Sault Ste. Marie by creating a community!

Gayle Broad has been a life-long agent of change in Northern Ontario, working with low-income people, women, First Nations and others to create a society that is more just and equitable. For the past 15 years, Gayle has actively supported the development of a new generation of social innovators through teaching and mentoring students both within the classroom and the community, as an Associate Professor of Community Economic and Social Development (CESD) at Algoma University, and as the Director of NORDIK Institute, a community-based research institute.

Ashleigh Sauvé  As a student and community activist, Ashleigh Sauvé consistently worked towards social, environmental and economic justice, so it was not surprising that when her non-profit employer was forced to close its doors, she would seek new and innovative ways to continue that work. Determined to stay in her home town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ashleigh decided to create her own job, bringing her extensive community networks into the creation of her social enterprise, Shabby Motley Handcraft. For the past 3 years, ‘Shabby’ has become acafé well-used by crafters – especially knitters - and community activists, and a progressive employer that engages staff in all facets of business planning, marketing and service innovation. Ashleigh stays true to her principles of encouraging the local economy, promoting environmentally friendly products and most recently starting a new business, Cordelia’s Plant Based Foods – a vegan take out!

Attendance is free with a refundable $30 deposit 

Registration is first come, first served to a maximum of 50 at each location. To register requires a $30 credit card deposit. ALL ATTENDEES ARE WELCOME. If this deposit is a barrier to your participation, please contact us: intersection.conference@gmail.com

If you are unable to attend after registering for any reason let us know at least 24 hours in advance. Failure to do so will result in the loss of your deposit. A post-workshop survey must be completed within four (4) days of the event for deposit to be refunded. The deposit is to avoid no-shows – it is a proven way to ensure attendance or timely cancellation.

Questions? Please contact Generation Connection at intersection.conference@gmail.com

Citizen Centred Innovation: International Certificate Course. This program provides intensive executive-level training on methods and techniques to address complex social problems in a multidisciplinary way. The workshops focus on urban food waste as an example of a complex social problem to address. The methods and techniques are transferable to other complex social, environmental and business challenges.