Greg Van Alstyne

Greg Van Alstyne is Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), and Director of Research at Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab), Toronto. He is a design educator and consultant with 20 years experience in communications and creative direction.

He holds a Master of Science in Integrated Digital Media from Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Greg's current research centres on causes and effects of innovation stemming from the relationship between design and emergence in complex systems, and he is co-PI on a project to investigate the future of the book. Prior to his OCAD appointment, as inaugural director of the Institute without Boundaries, Greg oversaw the student team that conceived, designed and produced the multi-faceted Massive Change project. His work as creative director with venerable interaction design firm IconNicholson NY includes collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and IDEO on Prada's New York Epicenter Store, and he was formerly the founding head of the Department of New Media at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.