Let’s celebrate the sustainable power of fixing your stuff this #RepairDay! 🧰 Repair keeps products alive longer, saving resources and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Celebrate today by giving your stuff a second life! 🎉 #Sustainability #CircularEconomy

A beginner's mindset can break through conventional problem solving! Public Health - Seattle & King County executives engage in high energy cycles of design thinking driven by design justice principles with the Global Innovation and Design Lab in three workshops over two days.

We’re excited to have Sanjay Vuppugandla join the IIGE as our new Web Developer! Sanjay is a UW alum and passionate software engineer with an interest in Web Development. He is excited to apply design principles to enhance the IIGE website. Welcome to the team Sanjay!

GID Lab Interns close out a project-filled quarter with a UX research project on the NextGen Civic Leader Corps, a tri-campus initiative empowering UW Tacoma students to make a global impact—these findings will help take it to new heights! The Volcker Alliance

Excited to share the Fall 2024 edition of IDEATE! Dive into stories of students in experiential learning, the GID Lab tackling global issues, and more. Explore here: bit.ly/3ZDgJOB #InnovationandDesign #IIGE #GIDLab #DesignThinking #IDEATE

Disrupting schemas produces wild and inspiring ideas! Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and its Leadership Advisory Team ideated core principles to disburse community reinvestment funds. The GID Lab team can't wait to facilitate ideas to action in Workshop #2 next year!

Here’s to another year of amazing workshops! Huge gratitude to all our wonderful clients of 2024, wishing our GID Lab community every success in 2025!

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Jaleesa Trapp to the Innovation & Design minor as a new faculty member! Dr. Trapp, an MIT Media Lab alum and Tacoma native, brings expertise in community-centered design, STEM and computing education, equity, and social justice.

Meet our Winter 2025 Interns! 🎉 We're excited to welcome: ✨ Cathy – Major: Writing Studies, Minor: Innovation & Design ✨ Hugo – Major: Urban Design ✨ Yesuf – Major: Marketing & Business, Minor: Innovation & Design Stay tuned for their amazing work!

Always inspiring to wrap up design thinking sessions with collaborative, community centered solutions! Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and Local Advisory Team members built visionary and practical prototypes to disburse Washington State Community Reinvestment Project funds.

We’re delighted to welcome Saralyn Smith (she/they) as Managing Director of the Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement at UW Tacoma! 🎉 With 15+ years in higher ed, Saralyn excels in program design, fostering partnerships, and creating inclusive, engaging content.

We were thrilled to to host Dr. Alexis Hope in our Design Studio class with Dr. Jaleesa Trapp! She shared invaluable insights on design values and her work behind the "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" project at the MIT Media Lab. Truly an inspiring session!

This week in Design Studio, we had the pleasure of hosting Sasha Costanza-Chock for a talk + Q&A on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. An insightful discussion on UX vs. business goals, accessibility, community partnerships & impact!

What an incredible Shared Futures event! 🎉 The energy was electric as students and South Sound professionals came together to perfect elevator pitches, and build valuable connections. Students are walking away with invaluable career insights to fuel their futures! 🚀

The Winter 2025 edition of IDEATE is here! Discover GID Lab workshops creating design & career opportunities for UW Tacoma students, Huskies on the Hill with NextGen Civic Leaders, and welcoming Dr. Jaleesa Trapp to the faculty! Explore here: bit.ly/Winter2025_IDE… #IIGE #IDEATE

Meet our Spring 2025 interns! 🌟 We're thrilled to welcome four amazing students to the team this term at the Global Innovation and Design Lab: ✨ Káren Bedoya Álvarez ✨ Primitivo Bambao ✨ Jack Cheung ✨ Hanifah Sen Stay tuned to see what they'll do this Spring!

Celebrating our wonderful Winter and Spring GID Lab clients First 5 FUNdamentals, UW CoLab for Community & Behavioral Health Policy, and Institute of Black Justice and the learning opportunities provided for our interns. We are excited for projects already lining up in Summer!

We are excited to announce our Spring 2025 edition of IDEATE is published! Read about the IIGE's annual Global Engagement Conference, the GID Lab record of workshops, a student winning a Student Civic Leader Award, and more! Check out more here: bit.ly/IDEATE_Spring2…

🎉 Welcome Alyce McNeil as our new Interim Managing Director of the Institute for Innovation & Global Engagement! With 17+ years in PR & community leadership, Alyce brings deep expertise in data, student success & engagement. Thrilled to have her on the team!

Meet our 2025-26 GlD Lab Interns! 🌟 ✨ Jessica Sellers – Information Technology major with a minor in Innovation & Design ✨ Mahmadkaif Ghanchi – Information Technology major ✨ Simrat Chhokar – Information Technology major with a minor in Business Administration