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Jason Trew

Design management professor

Education

  • Ph.D., history, Auburn University
  • M.A., humanities, California State University - Dominguez Hills
  • B.S., foreign area studies, Legal Studies, United States Air Force Academy

Credentials

  • Professor of design management, 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Instructor pilot and chief of standardization and evaluation, combat systems officer training, 2010–11, Pensacola Naval Air Station
  • Assistant professor, 2018–23, Air University

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Air Officer Instructor of the Year, Education and Training Command, 2011
  • Military Educator of the Year, Air Command and Staff College, 2014
  • Graduation Marshall, College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, 2018
  • U.S. Air Force nominee, Gibb Wilson Winner for Contributions to Aerospace Education, 2019
  • Women, Peace, and Security Student Research and Writing Award, National Defense University, 2019

Publications and presentations

Peer-reviewed publications and book reviews

  • Review of Svedin, L., & Trew, J. Shooting for the Stars: Collaborative Design for Space, 2021.
  • Review of The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, The Strategy Bridge, 2020.
  • Review of "Fiction Can Show What Innovation Really Looks Like.," proceedings (US Naval Institute), 2019.
  • "Rescuing Icarus: The Problems and Possibilities of "Air-Mindedness," Air and Space Power Journal, Summer 2019.
  • Review of Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport, CSAF Reading List, 2018.
  • Review of Narrating the Exit from Afghanistan by Steven R. Corman, ed., Humanities and Social Sciences Online, 2014.
  • Review of Warfare Welfare: The Not-So-Hidden Costs of America's Permanent War Economy by Marcus Raskin, ed., Air Power History, Summer 2013, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p53-54, 2013.

Other publications

  • "Playing with Splinters, or Three Thoughts on Play that are Driving Me Mad," Medium, 2022.
  • "Designfulness: What if Design Thinking isn't ultimately about Designing?" and "Undisciplined by Design," Medium, 2022.
  • The Icarus Solution: The Lure and Logic of Airmindedness. Air University Press, 2022.
  • "Symbolism, Serendipity, and Strategic Wisdom: The Origin Story of a New Set of Wings," Over the Horizon, 2022.
  • Featured "Thought Provocateur" for FutureCast, Headquarters Air Force Futures and Foresight Center, 2022.
  • Contributing author/editor for "U.S. Space Force: Leadership and Innovation Primer," Grant, J., and Fumier, M. 2020.
  • "Metis: Strategic Sense for a Wicked World," Agile Government: Emerging Perspectives in Public Management, 2020.
  • "Forget the Frozen Middle," Over the Horizon, 2018.
  • "#Rescuelcarus: A Manifesto for Heroic Innovation," Over the Horizon, 2018.
  • "Introducing The Icarus Institute: The USAF Center for Strategic Design Thinking," Medium, 2018.
  • "Stop Spreading the Millennial Innovation Myth," Medium, 2018.
  • Alternative Futures section, 2016 US Air Force Strategic Environment Assessment, 2016.
  • "Can Strategy be Playful?" PAX Sims, 2016.

Presentations and speaking engagements

  • "SCAD Extra: LEGO Serious Play," presented at Savannah College of Art and Design, 2023.
  • "Undisciplined by Design: Innovation in Government," presented to Senior Fellows, 2022.
  • "Research Roundtable," presented by Air University Teaching and Learning Center, 2022.
  • "Designfulness," presented to Design Thinking Zeal, 2022.
  • "Undisciplined by Design," presented at Savannah College of Art and Design Mentor Talks, 2022.
  • "Playful Innovators," pPresented to NASA Convergent Aeronautics Solutions' Foresights Guest Speaker, 2022.
  • "Project Management and Design," presented to Arizona State University Project Management Summit, 2022.
  • "Play and Innovation," presented to Federal Innovators, 2022.
  • "Design in the Department of the Air Force," presented to Agitare, 2022.
  • "Introduction to Design and Innovation," presented to Air Force Academy Center for Character and Leadership Development, 2022.
  • "Military Design," presented to faculty of Joint Special Operations University, National Defense University, and Ecole de Guerre (French War College), 2021.
  • "Shooting for the Stars: Designing Concepts for Space Force PME," presented at Air University Teaching and Learning Center forum on Joint PME Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021.
  • "Serious Play," keynote speaker at Air Force Personnel Center's "Innovation Summit," 2021.
  • EducationPanel member. EPIC International Summit on Creativity, 2021.
  • "Where's your Whetstone?: Sharpening your Mind," presented to Global Strike Command Senior Enlisted Leader Summit, 2021.
  • Strategic Design Workshop: 413th Flying Training Group, 2021.
  • "Enhancing innovation and performance through the power of play," presentation Panel to Agitare, 2021.