Design Strategy MBA Students, Linda Yaven, Faculty invite you to

Teach Us Something in 7 Minutes

Saturday, April 2, 2011.

7 - 9pm

Byers Auditorium (Genentech Hall)
at UCSF Mission Bay Campus
.
See Map to 600 16th Street San Francisco, CA

Upcoming event: F&P@Work
Presented by the MBA in Design Strategy program.
Saturday, April 9, 2011.
7-9 pm.
Timken Lecture Hall at CCA San Francisco Campus
Directions to 1111 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107.

Fun investigations into corporate culture by MBA in Design Strategy students, who perform scenarios for their Leadership by Design course.

As one of 19 teams that participated March 25-26 in the Rotman Business Design Challenge, a University of Toronto Rotman School of Management business and design competition, California College of the Arts had two teams representing its unique MBA in Design Strategy program, one of which placed third overall.

Rotman invited premiere B+D schools from across North America to apply business design principles and insights to develop solutions for its cosponsor, Mayo Clinic, the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice in the world.

Connect with Zoom
CCA's winning team, composed of three first-year and one second-year students, created Zoom, a health education and socialization platform for women aged 65-75 who live alone. Using educational modules to teach current tools such as Facebook, Skype, and Meetup Groups, the platform facilitates online and real-world interactions between these women and their network of family, friends, and care providers.

Zoom promotes better health outcomes within particular social groups by enabling them to share information and experiences about healthy aging, while ultimately paving the way for a future of online health solutions like telemedicine. Zoom provides aging women with the tools to achieve what they seek: a sense of belonging through improved connections with loved ones and the support to lead an autonomous life at home.

The winning team members included: Eric Persha, Olivia Nava, Anna Acquistapace, and Alvin Cheung. All are first-year students in the DMBA program except for Anna.

The second DMBA team members included: Dave Reinhardt, Shira Kates, Sadia Harper, and Lindsay Wolff-Loggson.

One of the DMBA program's new faculty members has a new article on Core77 about Sustainability 3.0:

As social, economic and ecological conditions continue to worsen and with the increasing sophistication and connectivity of information technology and social media, design for sustainability is now moving towards a new qualitatively different area of exploration: designing to build adaptive capacity. Its been almost 10 years since McDonough and Braungart's ground-breaking book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things set the standard for sustainable design: toxic-free closed loop material cycles, use of renewable energy in manufacturing, post-consumer separation of biological and technical materials and service and flow takeback programs by manufacturers. more...