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Capturing Waynism
A memorial project collecting unfinished works and alumni memories from Wayne Chang's lectures, and advancing research in work-integrated learning inside innovation practice.
Wayne Chang’s teaching wove rigorous theory with lived practice in innovation and work-integrated learning. Capturing Waynism is a knowledge succession project preserving Wayne’s intellectual legacy — his philosophy, methodology, and impact on over 1,000 students and 700+ documented ventures at University of Waterloo’s Conrad Business School.
The Book
Capturing Waynism: A Dozen Years of Championing Venturists documents Wayne’s approach to entrepreneurship education through interviews, alumni reflections, and archival research. The manuscript collects perspectives from former students now leading programmes across health tech, public sector labs, civic design, and venture creation.
Living Archive (R.O.M.A.™)
Wayne’s intellectual network is being visualized as an interactive constellation within the Regenerative Organizational Memory Archive, an ontological mesh representing students, ventures, concepts, and relationships across cohort years. This public art installation makes visible the invisible web of tacit knowledge that would otherwise be lost.
Call for Alumni Contribution
Wayne’s alumni are invited to contribute through structured interviews and reflection journals. A curatorial circle works with families and institutions to respect privacy while preserving insight. Student reflection essays may be included as dedications if there is sufficient interest.
Research Integration
The project advances research in knowledge succession, institutional memory, and work-integrated learning inside innovation practice. It serves as the primary use-case for the Perceptiosphere knowledge architecture — demonstrating how one person’s legacy can become navigable, inheritable, and alive.
Contributors include former students, colleagues, and the broader Conrad entrepreneurship community. The project funds small grants for continuing inquiry explicitly tied to themes from Wayne’s archive.