sLab is a centre for participatory foresight, systemic design, and social innovation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are design, business and policy professionals, educators and facilitators, a community of scholarly practitioners and co-creative change makers working to envision possible futures together. More about sLab
Lesley-Ann Noel, our distinguished Dean of Design, shared thoughts & critical perspectives in this warm welcome to attendees. “Welcome to Problematique Dialogue 2026….I want to begin by acknowledging sLab for their care, intellectual leadership, & sustained commitment…What you’ll be participating in over the next few days is not a typical academic event, & that distinction matters”…Read Dean Noel’s Address
The first Problematique Dialogue, applying the Banathy Conversation Method, was convened as a five-day immersive in-person event, May 10-15, 2026. In anticipation of published proceedings, and plans for a subsequent annual event… Continue
We’re inviting past and present collaborators to join us in reinvigorating sLab with a series of events. As a first step in shaping a call for collaborative regeneration through systemic design, we begin with an inquiring gaze in the rearview mirror.
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.
How might the mining industry play a key role in a just and peaceful transition toward a low-carbon future? sLab collaborated with International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to design a futures workshop investigating pathways to possible futures, with stakeholders from industry and civil society.
Southern Ontario is seeing increasing urbanization & with it a host of changes, challenges & opportunities. By 2050, what kinds of knowledge & services do we envision to support our communities in the face of this? View research findings from our expert panel on Southern Ontario urbanization.
Advancing systemic design: the integrative practice & theory of visualizing, designing & governing diverse socio-technical systems
Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab)
OCAD University
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5T 1W1
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