DesignJam offers a series of workshops in different locations across Ontario. Check out some of our upcoming events below.

  • #CarbonJam: Our Climate Footprints

    Saturday Nov 19, 2016 10am–3pm OCAD University

    Our world is changing. Climate changing. Each of us will play a role to measure and manage our carbon footprints for a better tomorrow. This change also presents opportunity for impact through our work.

  • #NorthJam: Collective Discussion for Northern Ontario

    Thursday Aug 25, 2016 9am–4pm sLab, Generation Connection and NORDIK

    How might we re-­energize our economy through entrepreneurship and social innovation?

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  • Flourishing Enterprise Design

    Wednesday Mar 9, 2016 9am–5:30pm Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto

    How can we create & be part of enterprises that are financially rewarding, socially responsive, & environmentally regenerative: flourishing enterprises?

  • DesignJam Waterloo Region

    Monday Feb 1, 2016 12pm–6pm The Tannery, Kitchener, Ontario

    DesignJam Waterloo Region – a day-long innovation jamboree – guided more than a hundred design leaders & design learners, sharing ideas, tools & perspectives, to better understand & address a complex problem.

     

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  • Knowing Yourself

    Monday Jan 25, 2016 5:30pm–8:30pm OCAD University, Toronto

    What you bring to the table as an individual is really important. Knowing yourself allows you to act with confidence, to be a high-contributing member to your team, your workplace and to society.  

  • Live Drawing for Communication & Co-Creation

    Wednesday Oct 28, 2015 9:30am–4pm Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab)

    Sometimes words are not enough to fully engage in the important conversations of our lives. The aim of the afternoon session is to deepen live and real-time visual communication skills through drawing.

  • Flourishing Business Design: Stakeholder Co-Creation

    Tuesday Oct 27, 2015 5:30pm–9:30pm Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab)

    This workshop enables you to experience, in a simulation, the co-creation of the business model of a new enterprise, with the other stakeholders from inside and outside the organization (founder, employee, customer, community etc.), using a new visual studio approach to designing flourishing business.

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  • DesignJam Toronto: “TrafficJam”

    Saturday Mar 28, 2015 9am–5pm MaRS Discovery District, auditorium & atrium

    DesignJam "TrafficJam" is an all-day innovation jamboree – a curated open space guiding more than a hundred design leaders & design learners, sharing ideas, tools & perspectives, to better understand & address a complex problem. Nicknamed "TrafficJam," DesignJam Toronto gathers young leaders, mentors, teams and aspiring entrepreneurs to conceive innovative user experiences and activate ideas to improve mobility in the Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area.

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  • Knowing Yourself

    Thursday Mar 12, 2015 9am–1:30pm OCAD University, Toronto

    What you bring to the table as an individual is really important. Knowing yourself allows you to act with confidence, to be a high-contributing member to your team, your workplace and to society.  

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  • Visual Thinking, Visual Production

    Friday Feb 27, 2015 9am–12:30pm OCAD University, Toronto

    From napkin sketches and diagrams to photos, storyboards, and the all important slide deck, your visuals say a lot about you, your organization’s values, and how you communicate. In this practical workshop you’ll learn smart ways to work – with your eyes, your hands and your laptop – to improve and sharpen your ideas and your output.

  • Foresight Foundations

    Wednesday Feb 25, 2015 9:45am–4pm OCAD University, Toronto

    Ever wondered how to think like a futurist? It can be learned. We introduce basic premises, concepts, thinking skills & frameworks for rigorous imagining to help entrepreneurs, designers and changemakers to thrive in the face of uncertainty.

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