“On behalf of IAOIP, I just wanted to thank you again for joining us at Innova-Con, and sharing your awesome insights about teaching innovation! Your presentation showed how powerful these tools are for student interactions, and it was a lot of fun to hear you describe the process of leading your students toward greater insights!” Langdon Morris - Board Member, International Association of Innovation Professionals

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Design Thinking and the Business of Disruption

Business History Conference Presentation March 13, 2021

By re-examining how a company makes a profit, meets the needs of its customers, differentiates itself from other companies, and competes in the marketplace, thinkshift presented examples of how students utilizing the design thinking process can discover ways to transform a traditional capitalist system fraught with exploitative, unsustainable, and inequitable practices into an innovative, human-centered user experience.

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Virtual Workshop held October 24, 2020

How can higher education better serve black and brown students? thinkshift organized and facilitated this collaborative work session with educators, administrators and former students to develop a uniquely interactive conference experience for exploring this question in 2021.

Disrupting Design: How Business Students Discover New Business Models

Innova-Con 2019 Presentation

thinkshift presented new findings on Disruption and Design at the annual Innova-Con held in Washington DC.

Disruption: Preparing for Tomorrow

Conference Proceedings of Innova-Con 2019

Are you concerned about disruption, the displacement of existing social, political, cultural, environmental, and economic norms by significantly different new ways, new forces, and new demands? If you’re not, perhaps you should. thinkshift’s presentation on Disrupting Design is included in this collection of lectures on innovation from Innova-Con.

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Thinking Like a Designer

Studio in A School Presentation

thinkshift introduced the process of designing environments to middle school students in New York City.

"On behalf of us at Studio in a School, please accept my sincerest thank you for visiting our middle school Architecture and Design Residency at P.S. 180 in Harlem. Your visit has been one of the true highlights of this pilot program. By sharing your work and experiences with our students, you offered an invaluable perspective on how the skills the students are developing in our program are applied in real world contexts... It has been a genuine pleasure working with you on this project." Christopher Wisniewski - Executive Director