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DI Vision and Mission
Design Innovation Initiative’s VISION:
To be innovators, activators and cultivators who evolve strong, collaborative design innovation mindsets in students, researchers and communities across the world.
Design Innovation’s MISSION:
We bring together students, faculty, community and leading experts from diverse disciplines who are thoughtfully addressing technology and society through design to become creative, intersectional problem-solvers and fearless collaborators in the face of complex, messy problems.
The Design Innovation Team VALUES:
- Design Innovation as a collaborative mindset and ethos
- Student-centered learning and engagement through challenge-based innovation
- Empathy, respect and diversity
- Addressing human-centered/user-centered challenges
- Existing as an “shared by all/owned by none” initiative and ecosystem
- Exploring and activating the intersections between fields
- Breaking barriers and biases through cross-disciplinary communication (perspective taking)
- Fostering and curating cross-disciplinary teams to tackle challenges through their collective application of knowledge and skills
- Creating an environment in which students are intrinsically motivated and externally validated (by creating valuable solutions for others)
- Process: for articulating, reframing, deciding, activating and generating novel insights and solutions
- Building the propensity for individuals to seek temporary unity with others to create awareness, confidence, capacity and empowerment
- Making/Fixing/Exploring/Iterating/Thinking/Doing/Failing/Repeating