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Saturday, November 26, 2016

KI students on TEDxUW organizing team

Three KI students worked hard to helped make the TEDxUW 2016 event a success!

Danielle Cruz was the outreach manager, Anne Fillion was the participant experience manager, and Samir Reynolds was the livestream manager.

The theme this year, "The Interconnectedness of Things", was especially relevant to KI students because of their interdisciplinary and interconnected approach to problem-solving and learning.

Friday, September 30, 2016

KI alumni team up in design project competition

Alexandra Olarnyk, BKI '15, Adam Thorsteinson, BKI '14, and Rebecca Mendes from Waterloo's GBDA program, recently worked on a very cool project.

They entered a package design competition and their design was chosen into the top 40 of the best works, after a jury analyzed over 700 entries from 46 countries. It was displayed in Prague at the CZECHDESIGN Gallery.

The challenge was to design a cardboard package that can be used again after its initial use.

Monday, September 19, 2016

KI researchers awarded funding

Congratulations to Knowledge Integration faculty members on recent funding support for their research.

Rob Gorbet and the Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) have been awarded a $2,476,738 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant for their "Living architecture systems".

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Ed Jernigan celebrated for 40 years of dedication to Waterloo

Ed Jernigan, founding director of Knowledge Integration and former Chair of Systems Design Engineering, retires in 2016 after 40 years of dedication and inspiration to the University of Waterloo.

We honoured and thanked him at a reception on Wednesday, April 6. It was a wonderful opportunity for friends, colleagues, and current and former students to recognize the significance of Ed's impact.

photos from the Thank You Ed Jernigan event

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

KI students' design project helps connect Canadians

KI students in the Real World Problem Solving Course (INTEG 452) created Generation Eh to empower older immigrants to tell their stories online through youth and their words and photography.

Read more about this great project in the news article 'Generation Eh' tells story of Canadians old and new