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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

KI student attends Arctic Youth Ambassador Caucus

Deanna Di Vito, third-year KI student, along with 50 other youth leaders (25 from the South, 25 from the North) participated in the Arctic Youth Ambassador Caucus in Iqaluit, Nunavut March 8-12 to learn more about Nunavut and to engage in round-tables with Northern youth on issues they face every day (e.g., food security, health care, climate change, access to education).

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

KI professor studies how social inequalities connect to creative economies

Allyson Stokes, Assistant Professor in Knowledge Integration, was quoted in an article in Glamour magazine about her research on workers in the arts and culture sector, examining how social inequalities connect to the development of creative economies. Her current project examines the experiences of filmmakers, fashion designers, and musicians in Austin, Texas.

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".