Workshops
DesignJam offers a series of workshops in different locations across Ontario. Check out some of our upcoming events below.
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#CarbonJam: Our Climate Footprints
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.
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#NorthJam: Collective Discussion for Northern Ontario
How might we re-energize our economy through entrepreneurship and social innovation?
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Flourishing Enterprise Design
How can we create & be part of enterprises that are financially rewarding, socially responsive, & environmentally regenerative: flourishing enterprises?
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DesignJam Waterloo Region
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
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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Live Drawing for Communication & Co-Creation
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.
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Flourishing Business Design: Stakeholder Co-Creation
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”
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
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
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.
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Foresight Foundations
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.