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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. 

Innovation in Action (IiA) at the University of Michigan is a campus-wide program giving student groups the opportunity, the tools, the people, and the room to take on the world’s biggest challenges.

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.

C-SED wouldn’t exist without the people behind it helping our collaboration space come to life. As the 2021-2022 school year comes to an end, we want to showcase our graduating students.

As a first-generation college student Ally Sierra, C-SED’s Design Consultant, has found her own way through both her undergraduate and graduate experiences without the generational knowledge most other students are prepared with.

Ally Sierra, C-SED's Design Consultant and superuser, speaks on her experience as a Summer Studio intern last summer.

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.

4 projects across 3 countries — working with partners to prioritize design challenges.