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Spencer Saunders serves as a Graduate Research Assistant at sLab, OCAD University, and holds an occasional instructor position qualifying as part-time faculty. An alumnus of OCAD University's Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI) MDes program, he maintains a multifaceted career spanning design, entrepreneurship, and systemic research.
His educational foundation includes a BFA in New Media from Ryerson University (2001). Professional experience features founding Communicate New Media, delivering web solutions for clients including Coca-Cola, Rogers, and GlaxoSmithKline.
Research centers on systemic design applications through projects like Synthesis Maps/Gigamaps for complex problem visualization, the Economic Futures for Ontario 2032 foresight initiative, and DEMO Publishing's interdisciplinary design theory. His work critically examines systemic design's ethical dimensions, emphasizing accountability frameworks and social justice integration.
Scholarly output trends reveal consistent focus on bridging design practice with systems thinking, particularly through analyzing unintended consequences of systemic interventions and advocating for data literacy in socio-technical contexts.
At sLab, Saunders contributes to pre-competitive innovation research environments focused on multi-sector collaboration for knowledge standardization and market development in systemic design fields.
