Design Meets

🎙️ Meet Dr. Mark Nowaczynski, Clinical Director of House Calls

Dr. Nowaczynski is the Clinical Director of House Calls, an interprofessional program providing ongoing comprehensive home-based primary care to frail, marginalized, and house-bound seniors whose needs cannot be met by typical office-based primary care delivery due to a combination of medical, social, and cognitive frailty.

Using photography to raise awareness and advocate for change, his work has been profiled in national print, radio, and television media as well as in the Gemini Award winning National Film Board of Canada documentary film ‘House Calls’. A solo exhibit of his photographs, ‘House Calls with my Camera’, opened at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2010 and remained on display for over a year. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

February 11, join us alongside Dr. Nowaczynski as we explore the ways in which love might become a more intentional design principle for the futures we create.
🔗 Tickets available at the link in bio

As AI accelerates into our organizations, creative tools, and frameworks, we need to ask ourselves: what assumptions about human-centered design are being challenged by AI? What new skills, practices, or mindsets might we need next?

Our next event, in partnership with , gathers industry leaders Alex Ryan, Kem-Laurin Lubin, Patrick Bach, and Stefanie Hutka alongside moderators Emma Jo Aiken-Klar and Michael Anton Dila to discuss and reflect on how AI is changing our work— and to build a collective picture of what human-centred design looks like in the age of AI.

Join the conversation!
🎟️ Tickets available at the link in our bio

Last week’s event with Andrew McLuhan served less as a keynote and more as an excavation site. Every few minutes, he’d unearth another gem of media theory, brush it off, and invite us to sit with it a while.

It left us inspired, stumped, and hesitantly hopeful. It was a conversation that sparked more questions than answers… which is exactly the point.

🔗 Read the full event recap at the link in our bio.

💡What was your key takeaway?

Less than a week away! 📣

This Monday, join us at , alongside Andrew McLuhan, as we unpack the ideas of Marshall McLuhan— what they mean, their profound impact, and how we can revisit them through a modern lens as agents of empowerment and change.

🔗 Tickets available at the link in bio