Living Labs
Inspiration from the Horizon
Inspiration from the EU Horizon Fund showing us what's possible when you mainstream applied, trans-disciplinary, ambitious research projects.
Design
Codesign for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
How does Codesign relate to the Sustainable Development Goals? My talk for MIG2024 explored Codesign, Complexity and the SDGs.
Systems Practice
Making Systems & Portfolios Physical with UNDP Innovation
Together with UNDP Innovation we explored how to make complex ideas, systems and portfolios, tangible.
Experimentation
Furthering Experimentation Practice - Part II: Process & Pathways
A rigorous experimentation approach (experiment-to-learn) will most likely outperform planning-based approaches (analyse-to-predict) where the challenge is dynamic and ever changing (i.e. any complex social and environmental challenge). This post explores how to do experimentation for change.
Experimentation
Furthering Experimentation Practice - Part I
Lately I've been thinking about the capabilities, process and frameworks needed for effective change work, as a continuation of a theme which has run through my work for 10+ years now - experimentation.
Field Notes
Capabilities for living labs and impact ecosystems - Part 1
What are the core capabilities needed for living labs and impact ecosystems? Field notes on a capability model.
Living Labs
Living Labs: recommendations for enabling collective action on complex challenges
How can we create the islands of coherence, the vehicles for co-investment, and create the dojos for the kinds of practices we need to tackle collective action challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, or mental health?
Field Notes
On Relational Infrastructure
Exploring the role of relationships, trust and mutualistic approaches to change.
Work
Towards Net Zero and a return to 'Labs'
Exploring how to support net zero transitions, whilst also powering up Monash's work with living labs - a significant work transition for 2022 & beyond!
Systems Change
Challenge-led or Mission-oriented? Exploring collective action approaches to transition, transformation and systems change
What is this 'Mission-oriented Innovation' everyone is talking about? Fieldnotes from a 2 day deep dive workshop into challenge-led approaches.
Systems Practice
On the idea of developing a 'Landscape of Intervention' for systems change work
It is the interplay of intention and emergence which, dancing together, enables us to influence the future of the system towards a desired state.
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based Solutions - a 2022 scan
The promise of Nature-based Solutions are to address dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, whilst also supporting human health and wellbeing.