Strategic Foresight and Innovation Team Finalist in Cities of Tomorrow Competition

 

Friday, September 18, 2015 - 4:00am

A team composed of graduate students from the Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI) has been selected as finalists in the Financial Infrastructure category of Cities of Tomorrow competition. The competition was created by the Large Urban Mayor’s Caucus of Ontario to provide an opportunity for Ontario students to enter the policy making process with proposals for improving Ontario’s urban centres. Octavio Juarez,

Team member Octavio Juarez says of the proposal developped for the competition: "This has helped us put into practice many of the tools and methodologies of the SFI program in an urban-oriented setting, nurture the spirit of collaboration between cohorts (full-time and part-time) and also serves as the launching of our group-collective based on foresight methods Citizen Foresight.

The Citizen Foresight team will present their ideas in the Cities of Tomorrow showcase on October 27-29, 2015 at the Toronto Congress Centre.

Citizen Foresight Team Members:
Christina Doyle
Eman El-Fayomi
Bergur Ebbi
Octavio Juarez
Michael Schaus

Cities of Tomorrow
http://www.citiesoftomorrow.ca/finalists-peoples-choice-award-announced/

Citizen Foresight
http://citizenforesight.net/

Strategic Foresight and Innovation Graduate Program
http://www.ocadu.ca/sfi

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Friday, September 18, 2015 - 4:00am

A team composed of graduate students from the Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI) has been selected as finalists in the Financial Infrastructure category of Cities of Tomorrow competition. The competition was created by the Large Urban Mayor’s Caucus of Ontario to provide an opportunity for Ontario students to enter the policy making process with proposals for improving Ontario’s urban centres. Octavio Juarez,

Team member Octavio Juarez says of the proposal developped for the competition: "This has helped us put into practice many of the tools and methodologies of the SFI program in an urban-oriented setting, nurture the spirit of collaboration between cohorts (full-time and part-time) and also serves as the launching of our group-collective based on foresight methods Citizen Foresight.

The Citizen Foresight team will present their ideas in the Cities of Tomorrow showcase on October 27-29, 2015 at the Toronto Congress Centre.

Citizen Foresight Team Members:
Christina Doyle
Eman El-Fayomi
Bergur Ebbi
Octavio Juarez
Michael Schaus

Cities of Tomorrow
http://www.citiesoftomorrow.ca/finalists-peoples-choice-award-announced/

Citizen Foresight
http://citizenforesight.net/

Strategic Foresight and Innovation Graduate Program
http://www.ocadu.ca/sfi

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