9:10

Hear from our Conference Team and more from Scout management!

11:15

How can we design more equitable cities? In this session, we’ll consider the practice of community-engaged design and how involving people in architecture and urban planning processes can create more inclusive and resilient places. In this moderated panel discussion, Boston-based practitioners will share and reflect on their experiences leading projects and initiatives in private firms, academic and nonprofit organizations, and the public sector that involve and enable people to shape physical development, public policy, and social change in their communities with design.

11:15

826 Boston’s Youth Literary Advisory Board (YLAB) represents students from all six of 826 Boston Writers’ Rooms. YLAB members apply and are selected in the fall and receive paid stipends for their work during the school year as artist-leaders and peer editors. The students meet weekly, and their work culminates every year in a final project. Past projects have included a podcast and a professionally printed book.

1:15

Kelley Shaw-Wade of Pinkergreen shares her story of growing a business over the past twenty years. She provides her perspective on how certain milestones and everyday best practices have continued to push Pinkergreen out of its comfort zone and to learn to amplify its own voice. Kelley shares her knowledge on the healthy diet of listening, trust, risk, and tenderness that has nurtured Pinkergreen into the strategic, thoughtful firm it is today.

3:30

A discussion about incorporating person values and experiences in the classroom setting. What does the future of higher education look like?

3:30

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a facilitation and discussion methodology developed for art museums that we adapted for the professional world. VTS was co-created by Philip Yenawine, a founding consultant to Hailey Group, and Abigail Housen, a cognitive psychologist. They designed VTS for museums and schools and achieved global impact.Peer reviewed research shows that engagement with VTS improves observation, communication, and listening skills; hones empathic capacities and reflective practices that promote self awareness about one’s own thinking patterns, assumptions and biases; helps both leaders and teams navigate ambiguity and uncertainty, and supports understanding across difference and inclusivity.