This September, Taylor Center team members gathered around their computers to participate in the first-ever virtual International Social Innovation Research Conference 2020 (ISIRC). ISIRC is an annual conference for scholars from around the…
“What kind of research needs to be done before brainstorming? How to incorporate many voices? How to get unstuck in brainstorming/design thinking?” “How to combine ideas with teammates and talk…
By: Julia Lang and Cozette Boyake The 2020 Taylor Center Changemaker Institute Curriculum is now available for free online for anyone interested in learning more about our work. The Changemaker Institute is…
A college student sits in an Applied Math class waiting for the lecture to begin. As the professor introduces the three guests who were expected to talk about design thinking,…
For months now, individuals have sat at sewing machines for thousands of hours, making masks to protect people from the spread of COVID-19. These sewists joined artists, scientists, medical professionals,…
By Samantha Fleurinor, Taylor Center Senior Program Coordinator
Written by Tran Nguyen-Phuong, Taylor Center 2019-2020 Design Thinking Student Fellow and Erica Casareno, Taylor Center 2019-2020 Communications Student Fellow. Uncertainty is an unavoidable element of life. The COVID-19 pandemic has…
In a world changing in response to COVID-10, many of us find ourselves having completely restructured our lives and are in the midst of exploring entirely new ways to work,…
On Friday, May 15, 2020, I led a session on (re)framing practices in design thinking for the monthly Design Thinking the New Orleans Way virtual breakfast series. The purpose was…
Written by Tran Nguyen-Phong, Taylor Center 2019-2020 Design Thinking Student Fellow. Albert Einstein was right when he stated that “you can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was…