“Contact light.” — The actual first words spoken from the surface of the Moon, by Buzz Aldrin on 20 July 1969 when Apollo 11 landed.
The future is bright.
That’s the conclusion I came to after teaching a Design Management course for the Creative Design Entrepreneurship degree at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine. It’s a progressive move on the part of UWI and I was honoured to be a part of the brave but challenging movement to elevate and promote the value and benefits of design through education at the region's titan of tertiary education...
...This group of students passionately pursued their assigned projects as I sought to develop their vision and process thinking. By the end of the course, their thought approach was not about purely theoretical academic exercises but served as the foundation for innovative approaches and solution development: the kind of thinking that, when put into practice, can fuel regional progress and economic development...