People
Jen Recknagel
Senior Design Lead & Director of Innovation and Design, NORC Innovation Centre
My Favourite Slogan/Quote:
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What’s close to my heart?
New music. Practicing yoga. Hanging with my nephews.
What book is on my nightstand?
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
How did I get here?
Being curious, staying open and approaching collaboration authentically keeps it all interesting! It seems many dots connect at OpenLab. As a Documentary Producer, I had the opportunity to travel to exotic destinations and into intimate circles. And although I loved this work, I felt a calling to expand my tool set. This led to the world of strategic design, where I’ve found a home for working at the intersection of human need and societal drivers, for impact storytelling, and for applying a systems thinking approach to complex social problems. With a deep family lineage in health care, it seems a natural fit to be working with the transdisciplinary team at OpenLab. It’s all about finding the right tool for the job.
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