Agenda

Biosphere 2 Check-In

Make your way to Biosphere 2, find your casita, and relax or explore.

Sunset welcome innovation reception.

After a quick round of introductions, we'll move on to start defining and mapping innovation in the residential building sector.

Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments.

Breakfast

Welcome & Overview

Innovation: Sorting it Out

The residential building industry is diffuse, complex, and can be slow to change. What characterizes attempts to prod innovation in the sector? We will work together to make sense of the programs, initiatives, people, and other forces spurring change.

Coffee and iced tea available.

Putting Things in Perspective

We will learn about a toolkit of easy-to-apply frameworks to reconsider success stories, sticking points, and barriers.

Taking Another Look at Innovation

Picking up on discussions from Wednesday evening, we'll talk about different ways of defining innovation — and what they mean for the residential building industry.

Lunch

System Mapping: An Overview

We'll learn about the origins and application of System Mapping, the method we'll use to grapple with the complexity of driving innovation in the residential building sector.

System Mapping: Divergent Perspectives

We'll work in groups to create System Maps of innovation from the divergent perspectives of the programs, initiatives, people, and other forces spurring change in the residential building sector. 

Affogato Break

Ice cream or coffee — why decide?

System Mapping: Convergent Perspectives

We'll work in groups to create System Maps of innovation that represent what could happen via new constellations of programs, initiatives, people, and other forces driving change in the residential building sector.

Networking Break

Continue a conversation in the living space in your casita, or explore one of the cooler biomes in Biosphere 2.

Dinner & Discussion

Breakfast

Reflection: What We've Learned

We'll follow up on the discussion about innovation and revisit the System Maps created on Thursday afternoon.

Group Discussion: Deciding on Next Steps

What are the three most important takeaways from our work? What are the next steps each of us can take individually and collectively in the next month to drive innovation forward?

Working Groups Lunch

Closing Reflections

 Carpools depart for TUS 

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