Dr. Monique Fuchs

MITdesignX, part of the Morningside Academy for Design, is dedicated to design innovation and entrepreneurship. Ventures exist at the intersection of design, business, science and technology. We turn ideas into action. Teaching venture incubation classes and bootcamps as well as mentoring startup and innovation teams in on-campus cohorts and in programs in Reykjavik, Iceland; Venice, Italy; Dubai, UAE; and at the Luma Foundation in Arles, France.

Providing guidance and advice to emerging founders across all disciplines at Harvard on their ventures: From idea testing, problem definition, value proposition to storytelling, business model development, partner explorations and market positioning. Judging also the President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) where ventures propel their ideas forward with an opportunity to win a share of $510,000 in non-dilutive funding. The 2022 challenge focuses on "The Future is Human".

Partnering with Leaders + Organizations to Build their Innovation Capability, Design new Initiatives/Ventures, Future Exploration, Coaching through Transformations

At the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence’s Design Lab we leverage decades of multidisciplinary MIT research and the expertise of MIT’s faculty and staff. Harnessing human potential and Group IQ in new ways to form collectively intelligent systems - superminds - of people and machines together tackling the most complex problems we are facing today and in more intelligent and innovative ways than ever before creating our futures.

FutureSight* Collective is a forward-thinking advisory and consulting agency. Working collaboratively with a network of thought leaders we produce insights and investigate trends of how we will live and work shaping our collective futures. Provoking ideas and challenging the status quo jumpstarts new opportunities at the edge of disciplines and as a result we curate connections across industries and sectors to inspire organizations to innovate beyond the boundaries of their current offerings.

Turning COVID-19 into an innovation opportunity, Futurelab set out to develop future-proof competencies among students and to actively contribute to thought leadership across a variety of industries leading with the question: “Post-COVID-19: How will we Live and Work in the Future?”

Co-founded and heading Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center and establishing Wentworth's innovation agenda for the future. Within only 2 years nearly 500 students opted into this extra-curricular offering and 200 interdisciplinary ideas were generated. BostInno 50onFire finalist in the Education category after only one year since launch.

Co-founded the College Think Tank Boston with the City of Boston bringing together students across disciplines and from different colleges/universities to participate in a one-day design thinking event to solve the City's real problems and to make their ideas Boston's reality. CityStart Boston was an iteration and extension of CTTB and included a three week bootcamp to move teams from inception to launch.