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Since 2020, C-SED has offered an annual book club providing discussion opportunities regarding the intersection of design and equity. This year, book club looked a little different.

Pictured Above is a Grant Sprint™ -- a novel method for drafting grant proposals in order to synthesize the ideas from the entire writing team. It’s a more collaborative, efficient, and fun way to write proposals. 

Traditionally, the Socially Engaged Design Process model is a tool referenced at all stages of a project, but Heidi and Tershia took a unique approach by using the model as a retroactive guide to organize their reflections and findings for the first five years of the CoE’s DEI Strategic Plan.

Innovation Salon, or a facilitated gathering of people with diverse backgrounds and expertise who have in-depth discussions about innovation in a particular area of interest.

Ryan Henyard believes that a better world is possible, and he’s doing his best to make that belief a reality.

Student teams from across the University of Michigan worked for several months to imagine a future world--and a future campus-- that is anti-racist and developed solutions through C-SED's Innovation in Action program.

I stumbled upon C-SED through book club. A short post in a newsletter caught my attention, “In what ways do design methodologies promote inequality? What are others in our field doing to address injustice? How might we leverage our own work toward justice?”