Social Innovation Lab

In this hands-on course, hosted by the CMU Centre for Resilience, a transdisciplinary cohort of students will co-design and implement ideas proposed by community organizations and businesses. Students will work with mentors and faculty members in small teams. They will select a topic, draft a course of action, and produce a final product. The course is applied and competency-based, embracing a “problem-based learning” approach where students will share knowledge, peer support, and feedback on an ongoing basis.

Assignments

Project selection
Weekly reflection
Milestones and methods TBD

Texts

THEORY
Design Thinking For Social Innovation, Brown & Wyatt
Social Innovation Lab Guide, Wesley et al
Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation,
by Al Etmanski
Maximizing the Capacities of Advanced Education, Coro Strandberg

METHODS
Service Design Method Library (website)
Human Centred Design Method Library (website)
The Field Guide to Human-Cent ered Design , IDEO

2023 Organizational partners

Burrowing Owl Recovery: Marketing
Manitoba Selects Media Project
MB Assn of Rights & Liberties HR Planning
MB Org of Faculty Associations Campaign
CMU Press Book Promotion and Marketing
CMU Press Music Marketing
CMU Press Amazon/Indigo integration

Mentors (2023)
TBD