The Phyllis M. Taylor Center
for Social Innovation and Design Thinking
The Taylor Center cultivates a diverse network of changemakers who are working and learning together to create a more just and equitable society.
Our programs are grounded in the teaching, research, and practice of social innovation and design thinking.
Taylor Center News
Taylor Center Releases New Monograph: A Map of the Landscape of Social Innovation Theories
If you are curious to learn more about the field of ‘social innovation’ and make sense of divergent perspectives, arguments, paradigms, and language surrounding this theme, the Taylor Provocation #3 should be on your summer reading list. I definitely wish…
Reflecting on a Year as a Remote Design Thinking Graduate Assistant
The academic year 2020 - 2021 was an interesting challenge and experiment in working and building community remotely. The Taylor Center's 2020-2021 Graduate Assistants in Design Thinking for Social Impact learned many pros and cons of working remotely and running…
Art Museums and Social Change with Megan Flattley
Hello again! Megan Flattley, 2020-2021 Taylor Center Research and Scholarship Graduate Assistant and art historian here, in my previous blog posts I introduced my own research on art and social change, as well as the possible intersections between Social Innovation…
June Design Thinking Breakfast with Christina Harrington
Virtual EventCasual breakfast series to meet new folks, practice using design, design thinking, other designerly approaches to create social impact. Register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/june-design-thinking-breakfast-with-christina-harrington-tickets-155966890167. While she may be an engineer by trade, Dr. Christina Harrington identifies herself as a designer. She…
July Design Thinking Breakfast with Lee Kim
Virtual EventCasual breakfast series to meet new folks, practice using design, design thinking, other designerly approaches to create social impact. Register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/july-design-thinking-breakfast-with-lee-kim-tickets-153039335773 View materials after the workshop here: https://taylor.tulane.edu/design-thinking/breakfasts/lee-kim/. Lee Kim is a designer thinker, an engineer, a poet…
August Design Thinking Breakfast with Woodrow W. Winchester, III, PhD, CPEM
Virtual EventCasual breakfast series to meet new folks, practice using design, design thinking, other designerly approaches to create social impact. Register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-design-thinking-breakfast-with-woodrow-w-winchester-iii-phd-cpem-tickets-155971439775. View materials after the workshop here: https://taylor.tulane.edu/design-thinking/breakfasts/woodrow-winchester. Woodrow W. Winchester, III, PhD, CPEM is the Director of…