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
Spring 2021 Speakers for Tulane’s Social Venture Accelerator
This year's Changemaker Institute (CI) welcomed an incredible array of changemakers and entrepreneurs who offered their unique perspective on social entrepreneurship and skillsets needed to start and launch a business with impact. The structure of each workshop varied and speakers covered…
Taylor Your Life Spring 2021 Report
View the Spring 2021 Report Taylor Your Life is a changemaking career development lab that teaches undergraduate students how to approach their future with the mindset and toolkit of a designer. Taylor Your Life (TYL) is a 2 credit 14-week social…
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…
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Latest Past Events
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…
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…
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…