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Leo Burnett + Experience Institute: Building a Culture of Creativity
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Redesigning the Workplace: A Class with Bandwidth Labs
Every workshop is rooted in a key problem in which the participants are going to address. In this case, we decided to focus on redesigning the way we work. For Bandwidth, it was a problem that was just far enough outside of their everyday jobs that it would push them to think differently, yet close enough to their world where they could see and feel the necessity for new ideas.
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Defining “Storyteller”
Effective and meaningful storytelling doesn’t begin with heaps of creativity, and it doesn’t always lead to such gratifying reactions from an audience. Instead, it begins when someone’s willing to keep quiet long enough to listen to the world around them.
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Meet the Good Life Project: Vitality, Connection, and Contribution
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The Art of Storytelling
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Road-Tripping Solo
To begin my last Ei term, I drove from Austin, Texas to Santa Monica, California through the Southwest desert lands. It’s interesting what happens when you willingly spend over 7 hours alone, confined in a moving vehicle, driving through the desert with nowhere to go but forward.
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3 Creative Ways to Document Your Experiences
A lot of learning happens through reflection on the things you've done. For me, this reflection starts with careful documentation, whether written, verbal, or visual.
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Stanford 2025: Time Traveling for Better Design
This discusses a project called @Stanford––a collaborative, interactive effort that worked to frame how d.school students might benefit from immersive learning experiences in new contexts. That’s exactly what we’re exploring through Experience Institute: the intersection between experience and education.
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Year Here: Community Building Across Oceans
Community building is important to Ei as an organization that’s determined to change a well-established landscape: higher education. As we’ve faced challenges and created new solutions throughout our first year, we’ve discovered that we’re not alone. There are other individuals and organizations like us, dedicated to making changes and doing good. Meet: YearHere.
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Misfits are Perfect Fits
Since leaving the monastery, I see a different man in the mirror. He’s a man that has been transformed at a depth of soul that fear’s afraid to visit, so love resides instead. Now, I live in Fargo, North Dakota. I have been here for one week. This is a reflection on the contrasts and similarities between my two disparate experiences.
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Reflection is Learning
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Meetup #3 Complete! Next Stop? September’s EXPo
A few highlights from our third Meetup.
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meet-earnestMeet Earnest: A New Funding Option for Ei Students
There’s a saying: necessity is the mother of invention.
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Meetup 3: A Glimpse
Experience Institute students hit the ground running for two weeks of intensive workshops, meetings and projects before they depart again for their final round of apprenticeships and experiences.
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Ei introduces UX
Starting in September, UX design will become one of our core competencies.
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