Paper submission for the Strategic Design and Management in the New Economies course

Topic: What is the role of creative professionals in the New Economies?

Purpose: Integral to the MS-SDM degree is gaining a broad contextual knowledge of the 21st Century business environment and the changing role and agency of design in this context. Equally important is the application of specific tools for the identification of a field for intervention, the framing of a “problem space” and the systematic and iterative application of research and problem-solving-through-prototyping. These processes will ultimately be combined with  business modeling and the consideration of new forms of value amidst significant societal shifts. 

Here is a glimpse of what I'm doing at Parsons for my Master in Strategic Design and Management. This is for a class focusing on economies, and for somebody who was trained strictly in design and had no interest in the economy, this class has been one of the most challenging classes I've ever taken (a close second to that art history class I took in collage and failed, long story).