Last night I was part of a diverse gathering of people who made their way from as far away as Barcelona to attend the launch of OCAD's new Strategic Innovation Lab (sLAB). Those in attendance included art students, senior OCAD leadership, MaRS representatives, government officials, business leaders and others who were interested in how social innovation might bring about good for others. In addition to hearing about the sLAB vision from Lenore Richards (Executive Director) and Bob Logan (Chief Scientist), participants were given a chance to be part of a workshop facilitated by Dave Gray of Xplane that enabled us to explore as a group what our vision for the future of sLAB might be.
I was part of a group that reflected visually on collaboration, leading to an exploration of 'it takes a village to raise an idea' complete with drawings. The survival or death of ideas is something that Randall Collins explores in his Sociology of Philosophies. This was a less onerous exploration and did not occupy the thousand-plus pages that Collins exploration covers.
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