21 Toys Founder Ilana Ben-Ari on EMPATHY

As part of our program at Future Design School we teach our students todeeply understand what it means to put themselves in someone else’s shoes — or to practice EMPATHY as core concept of design.

Why I joined FDS…

In August 2001, I found myself putting together Ikea furniture in my new apartment in Boston. I was getting ready to start my Master’s of Technology in Education at Harvard. I had made a life decision to leave Accenture where I was a change management consultant, to dedicate my career to…

We’re building a school!

We have set out to build the school that we wish we could have attended.

A school that focused on facilitating creativity, encouraged entrepreneurship, enabled experimentation and cultivated a culture of innovation…

Thank you to RightSleeve for our AMAZING FDS T-shirts!

Advice to Parents from RightSleeve Founder Catherine Graham

Every Young Innovator who attends our programs has been given a t-shirt designed by Catherine Graham’s (@cath_graham) team at RightSleeve. We are so…

We’re headed to London!

It’s official: FDS is headed to London for one very special week this summer.

We’ll be running a camp fostering creativity and entrepreneurship for youth entering Grades 6–8 at the Pierre L. Morrisette Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Ivey Business School…