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Design Innovation Initiative VISION:

To be a global leader in cultivating collaborative mindsets that empower individuals to address society’s most complex challenges with creativity and purpose.

Design Innovation Initiative MISSION:

We unite diverse teams to explore the intersections of art, science, technology, and society, inspiring innovative solutions that lead to meaningful, positive change.

Design Innovation Initiative VALUES:
 

1. Collaboration as a Mindset and Ethos: We embrace an ethos of collaborative innovation where ideas, resources, and efforts come together across disciplines, transcending barriers and biases.
2. Empathy, Respect, and Diversity: Human-centered design and the incorporation of diverse perspectives are at the core of our work, ensuring inclusive solutions that address real-world challenges.
3. Student-Centered Engagement: We prioritize learning through hands-on, challenge-based innovation, empowering students as leaders and problem-solvers.
4. Interdisciplinary Exploration: By activating intersections between fields, we create opportunities for dynamic collaboration that generate novel insights and solutions.
5. Accessible Resources and Ecosystem: We are a "Shared by all. Owned by all." initiative, ensuring equitable access to makerspaces, resource labs, and tools that enable creation and discovery.
6. Dynamic Problem-Solving Processes: From framing challenges to testing and iterating solutions, our approach encourages curiosity, resilience, and the courage to learn through failure.
7. Building Networks and Teams: We cultivate interdisciplinary networks and partnerships that bring together collective expertise to address complex, human-centered problems.
8. Empowering Temporary Unity: We inspire individuals to collaborate across boundaries, building awareness, confidence, and capacity to make meaningful change.
9. Continuous Innovation: Through making, fixing, exploring, iterating, and refining, we embrace the iterative nature of innovation as a journey, not a destination.