About the Series
Conceived and created by SiG, Inspiring Action for Social Impact is a national speakers’ series comprised of a mix of in-person and online public talks by international thought leaders, applied learning workshops and dialogue on practical strategies for social innovation in Canada. Led by the world’s leading social innovation thinkers and practitioners, the Inspiring Action for Social Impact Series will guide us through proven collaboration and co-creation approaches and strategies that are capable of generating practical solutions to Canada’s most pressing and complex social problems.
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Learn more about our 2012 speakers here!
May
Geoff Mulgan comes to Canada to present on Innovation and Austerity - Toronto
Geoff Mulgan is recognized internationally as a leading speaker on social innovation and its successful realization. Very familiar with the pinch of austere budgets in the UK, Geoff will discuss the opportunities society has to overcome the barriers that fiscal challenges present to innovation.
While in Canada, Geoff presented on several topics. As we await the final media resources, you can view the presentation he gave at MaRS on May 2nd here.
Following the 2008 global financial crisis Geoff laid out the challenges ahead during his 2009 TED Talk: “I think what connects the challenge for business, the challenge for government and the challenge for communities now, is both simple and difficult. We know our societies have to radically change. We know we can’t go back to where we were before. We know it’s only through experiment that we’ll discover exactly how to run a low carbon city, how to care for a much older population, how to deal with drug addiction – and so on.”
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Ezio Manzini on Creative Communities and Sustainable Qualities - Toronto
How social innovation is proposing new ideas of time, place, work and economy, AND, therefore, how social innovation is changing the world! Register here.
For more than two decades Ezio has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Most recently, his interests have focussed on social innovation, considered as a major driver of sustainable changes, and on what design can do to support it. In this perspective he started and currently coordinates, DESIS: an international network of schools of design and other design-related organisations specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability (http://www.desis-network.org ).
Throughout his professional life he has taught and carried out research in several design schools, parallel to this, he has also been director and vice-president of Domus Academy (in the 90s) and Chair Professor of Design under the Distinguished Scholars Scheme at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (in 2000).Currently, he is visiting lecturer at the Tohoku University (Japan), the Jiangnan University (China), the COPPE-UFRJ (Brazil). Currently he is Distinguished Visiting Professor, at Parsons, the New School for Design (USA).
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Take a look at our 2011 Series videos and presentations
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