Speaker: Dr. Sander van der Leeuw
Title: Invention and innovation: the long term
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 – 2-4pm
Location: DC 1302

A video of Dr. van der Leeuw’s talk is available below or on our Vimeo page.

Abstract

In the last twenty years, researchers have come to […]

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Kirsten Robinson

On August 30, 2011 By

Kirsten Robinson is an award-winning systems design engineer and designer. She worked on Governor General Award winning architect Phillip Beesley’s Hylozoic Soil team to create responsive architectures that were shown across Canada and at the Venice Biennial. As an engineer, she has worked in robotics and electrical engineering creating ethanol from waste cellulose, […]

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In her doctoral research, with the Department of Environment and Resource Studies (ERS), Perin Ruttonsha applies concepts from complex systems, social-ecological resilience, social innovation, and biomimicrymdiscourses, in examining processes and opportunities for the long-term, adaptive transformation of human settlements along sustainability pathways. She is especially interested in relational dynamics, social-eco-technological regime shifts, […]

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Speaker: Paul Thagard, Professor of Philosophy, with cross appointment to Psychology and Computer Science, Director of the Cognitive Science Program and University Research Chair at University of Waterloo
Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013, 2-4pm
Title: Creative Cognition in Social Innovation
Category: Seminar

Abstract:
Human creativity operates in […]

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Speaker: Monica Cojocaru
Title: Objective and subjective factors: modelling consumer behaviour from individual to population scale
Date: Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Category: Seminar

Dr. Monica Cojocaru, Associate Professor of Mathematics (University of Guelph), discusses her current research on the dynamic modeling approaches to population behavior incorporating both objective and subjective decision factors. […]

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