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Unfinished Business Lecture Series - Nathan Shedroff: Design is the Problem

Thursday, November 5, 2009 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

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ABOUT UNFINISHED BUSINESS

The Unfinished Lecture is a monthly event hosted by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD and sponsored by Torch Partnership. Part of the Unfinished Business initiative, the lectures are intended to generate an open conversation about strategic innovation in the business and design of commercial enterprises and public organizations.

DESIGN IS THE PROBLEM: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable


Design is ready to take it's rightful place as an important component of innovation and cultural change. It's no longer possible to develop successful solutions to cultural or climate problems without integrating people, ideas, and techniques from the Design, Business, and Sustainability domains. But, first, we have some reckoning to do with our past...


ABOUT THE SPEAKER


Nathan Shedroff Nathan Shedroff is the chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, CA. This program melds the unique principles that design offers business strategy with a vision of the future of business as sustainable, meaningful, and truly innovative—as well as profitable. www.designmba.org

He is one of the pioneers in Experience Design, an approach to design that encompasses multiple senses and requirements and explores common characteristics in all media that make experiences successful, as well as related fields, Interaction Design and Information Design. He speaks and teaches internationally and has written extensively on design and business issues, including, Experience Design 1 and maintains a website with resources on Experience Design at www.nathan.com/ed  He’s a serial entrepreneur, works in several media, and consults strategically for companies to build better, more meaningful experiences for their customers. He lives in San Francisco where the climate, culture, and industry make it easy to have an esoteric and amorphous title like Experience Strategist and actually make a living.
 
His latest book, Making Meaning, co-written with two members of Cheskin, a Silicon Valley-based strategy consultancy, explores how companies can specifically create products and services to evoke meaning in their audiences and customers. www.makingmeaning.org

He has three new books debuting in the beginning of 2009: Design is the Problem, about sustainable design; Experience Design 1.1, an update to his 2001 book; and Experience Design 1 Cards, a design tool based on his book that helps designers create more meaningful experiences.

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OCADU
100 McCaul Street
CENTRAL HALL
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada

Thursday, November 5, 2009 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)


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At Torch Innovation we think differently about how and what people learn.  We offer a series of lectures, workshop, and community events that focus and provide a different perspective on creativity, design, and innovation and provide attendees with practical skill that they can use in their teams and organizations.