Challenge-led Innovation
Over the last eighteen months, a large chunk of my work has revolved around a humming central theme: Electrification. It's been less about wires and currents, and more so about the architecture and meshwork of resilience. As I look back on 2025 to where we stand now in
Community Resilience
At the end of 2024 we were delighted to receive word that two of MRAG's grant applications to AusNet's Energy Resilience Community Fund had been approved - both to drive community resilience in Millgrove, Victoria.
relational infrastructure
What makes up Relational infrastructure when we zoom in? What are the qualities and attributes that might help us explain how we build it, nurture it and best invest in it - and indeed, what we can expect in return?
intention
What is resonance in all its forms, and how might we focus on cultivating our ability to identify it, orient to it, feel it within ourselves and cast our own signals for others to receive?
Annual Reflection
Reflections on a year of anti-patterning, shifting to a trip around the sun with the intention to 'coalesce' life, work and interests and grow together into the future.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is disrupting the university monopoly. We can't "hire our way" out of this transition, and trying to control emergence is a losing battle. Are sandboxes our best option to prototype a future University operating model?
Living Labs
Living Labs come in many shapes and forms. This post aims to tease out some of the different forms to better understand their strengths and focuses to advance how we build and sustain Labs over time.
What makes up Relational infrastructure when we zoom in? What are the qualities and attributes that might help us explain how we build it, nurture it and best invest in it - and indeed, what we can expect in return?
What is resonance in all its forms, and how might we focus on cultivating our ability to identify it, orient to it, feel it within ourselves and cast our own signals for others to receive?
AI is disrupting the university monopoly. We can't "hire our way" out of this transition, and trying to control emergence is a losing battle. Are sandboxes our best option to prototype a future University operating model?
University Living Labs are a relational infrastructure to orchestrate and catalyse portfolios of impact-oriented initiatives in collaboration with societal partners.
Exploring practices for working in and with complexity to regenerate place, people and planet
About a decade ago, I heard the term "Trojan Mouse" as a way to speak about small experiments or safe-to-fail tests. Ever since I've been thinking about what their role is in systems change.
Living Labs are evolving over time, geography and in response to the challenges and opportunities for collective action. This post introduces Three Generations of evolution.
In October, I was fortunate enough to join forces with leading lights in the University Living Labs space at the Open Living Lab Days 2025 conference in Andorra.
University Living Labs are a relational infrastructure to orchestrate and catalyse portfolios of impact-oriented initiatives in collaboration with societal partners.
Open Living Lab Days 2025, a conference for Living Lab practitioners from around the world is upon us, and I'm in Andorra to explore three lines of enquiry.
Can we really be Place-based if we only pay attention to the People who live there?
The lichen-ous current state of my work and community life, and what's coming for the rest of the year.
What value does an innovation orchestrator create, and what are the future aspects we need to address to increase their effectiveness?
Regional innovation doesn't just happen. Exploring the role of orchestration in regional innovation ecosystems - beyond the Lab.
Funding and frameworks for a world in transition - session recording, reflections and exploration
Join us for a timely exploration of difference types of finance, funding and investment suitable for tackling complex challenges faced by communities in Australia and Canada.
Most people have never experienced a social innovation lab, so how do we talk to these people about what they do and why they're useful?