Taylor offers opportunities to Tulane faculty and staff members from any discipline and department to learn changemaking skills to bring to their research, scholarship, pedagogy, and career.
- Learn the basics of design thinking, explore social innovation and changemaking theory, and more.
Faculty and Staff Opportunities
Conversations in Social Innovation
Conversations in Social Innovation allow participants to connect their research with the pursuit of social innovations. Taylor aims to promote networking, explore pathways in social innovation research, and advance our social innovation research collaborations among the center, Tulane, local universities, and community partners.…
Design Justice Happy Hour
Join us for a free, casual happy hour with lightly facilitated discussion and snacks. This is an opportunity to meet likeminded changemakers and grow your network WHO SHOULD ATTEND DESIGN JUSTICE HAPPY HOUR? Anyone working in social justice, social…
Design Thinking 101
Each semester, The Taylor Center hosts interactive sessions that will introduce you to the tools and mindsets of design thinking (DT), a problem-solving approach anyone can use to make change in their community. Together we will practice: putting people at…
Design Thinking Breakfast
Our monthly Design Thinking Breakfast is a space to build community among those using design, design thinking, and related methods for social impact with some local flavor, particularly from the greater New Orleans area and the Gulf South. The goal…
Design Thinking Breakfast October 2020: Jacinda Walker
“Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” The October 23, 2020 design thinking breakfast featured Jacinda Walker of designExplorr. She challenged adults to think about designing for a user with similar tools she uses for introducing design thinking to students.…
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Taylor offers multiple programming opportunities for Tulane students, faculty and staff, and community members to learn the mindsets and methods of design thinking (human-centered design). A design thinking mindset puts people at the heart of understanding, experimenting and acting when…
Design Thinking Gumbo
An Introduction to Design Research Methods Design Thinking Gumbo is a series of one-hour workshops on a variety of methods that can be used in design research. Each workshop will introduce a method, share examples of its use in other…
Design Thinking Gumbo: Building Rapport in a Virtual World
February 23, 2021, 6 - 7 pm Building rapport in a virtual world gives you the tools to develop rapport and empathy quickly in a virtual and remote setting. The goal of this workshop was to learn not only general,…
Experiments in Design-Based Learning
The Experiments in Design-based Learning group is comprised of Tulane University faculty and staff members with teaching responsibilities, who are interested in using design thinking in their teaching or research. This group was born out of the Faculty Learning Communities…
Fast 48
The FAST 48 is a three day weekend training that teaches the basics of human-centered design for social impact. Participants learn via short cycles of individual and group practice, including direct work in the community. Participants can include graduate students,…
Professors in Social Entrepreneurship
Professorships at the Taylor Center provide faculty support for interdisciplinary endeavors in social innovation & social entrepreneurship. About the Social Entrepreneurship Professorships These professors teach courses, engage in research, and develop community programming in social innovation & social entrepreneurship. They…
Research and Scholarship
The Taylor Research and Scholarship team supports researchers working to advance knowledge and understanding of the fields of social innovation and changemaking. Our Work Our work consists of connecting and cultivating a community of changemakers at regular writing and research-themed social…
Reserve Taylor Space
Read on to learn more about our space and our reservation policies.Spaces Available Taylor Conference Room Conference room can accommodate 10-12 people. Design Thinking Classroom Design thinking classroom can accommodate 50-75 people. Who Can Reserve the Space SISE instructors, Taylor…
Social Innovation Research Fund
COVID-19 UPDATE March 13, 2020 1:20 p.m. : In response to the announcement from President Fitts, Taylor will follow recommendations outlined by the university. For the current funding process, Taylor will continue to review applications as normal but will not…
Virtual Workshop: Using design thinking to shape discussions around Coronavirus
How can global citizens engage in meaningful conversations around the coronavirus? Monday, April 20, 2020 at 6pm CST, attend our free workshop: "Using design thinking to shape discussions around COVID-19 in New Orleans." This virtual workshop will focus on the…
Questions?
- Interested in learning more about faculty and staff opportunities?
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