SIDELAB

The SIDELab is a group of educators, students, consultants, public servants, designers and artists who are interested in understanding the intersections of Systems Thinking, Integrative Thinking, Design Thinking and Evaluative Thinking. We meet biweekly to explore what we call SIDE Thinking... We began the meetings by inviting subject matter experts to deliver beginner workshops on each approach, culminating with a session in which we discussed all three topics. After these introductory sessions we then hosted more in-depth sessions alternating from focusing on one topic, to focusing on all three topics. We discussed their strengths, similarities, differences, drawbacks, what confused us, key themes, common themes, potential uses, what we found useful or useless, and much more. Each week, we all left with more questions than answers, but that was the beauty of the lab. We would leave our room in the Rotman building feeling curious about the possibilities.

Also known as: The SIDELab