Our Collaborators

We gratefully acknowledge the foundation of excellence provided by the faculty and staff of OCAD University. Their renowned expertise in art, design, and innovative practice is a continuous source of professional insight that helps us achieve our project goals. Below are several of the groups and research labs we collaborate with.

Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI)

This program trains strategists in design thinking and foresight to navigate complex challenges, manage organizational change, and develop sustainable, innovative solutions that positively shape the future.

Digital Futures (DIGF)

Digital Futures focuses on leveraging digital technology as a catalyst for societal change. Graduates are skilled in creative computation, digital prototyping, and critical theory to build new realities across media, arts, and enterprise.

Design for Health (DHEA)

The Design for Health program equips students with comprehensive design methodologies to create ethical and sustainable service, system, and product solutions for urgent challenges across the healthcare sector, from chronic disease to health equity.

Inclusive Design (INCD)

Inclusive Design practitioners use technology and design principles to break down societal barriers, ensuring that policies, services, and products are usable and accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or background.

Health Design Studio

The studio uses an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach to tackle critical healthcare challenges, focusing on design for patient safety and high-sensitivity topics like opiates management and end-of-life communication.

Super Ordinary Lab

The lab analyzes near-to-market or just-in-market technologies to understand their social significance and potential for meaningful innovation through ethnographic methods and broad trend tracking.

SLab (Strategic Innovation Lab)

SLab is a centre for systemic design research, social innovation, and participatory foresight, bringing together scholarly practitioners to envision and plan possible futures.

Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC)

The lab analyzes near-to-market or just-in-market technologies to understand their social significance and potential for meaningful innovation through ethnographic methods and broad trend tracking.

Interactive Futures Lab (IFL)

This interdisciplinary group focuses on the design and use of technologies to create meaningful physical and tangible user experiences, including applications in robotics and human-computer interaction.