Futures
Participatory Futures in the age of COVID-19
This article is a summary of a rather boisterous twitter thread which invited examples of participatory futures & collective visioning, for a COVID-19 era of social distancing.
Collaboration Cafe
Resource: Collaboration Cafe - Open Source
A Facilitator's Workshop Guide for supporting people to work together. Back in 2012 I got together with some friends from Enspiral to develop a monthly event to get people working together more. I was having 10s of conversations with people in Wellington about their projects, and kept found
Disaster Response
Recover
This post is my early explorations of Australian Bushfire Recovery with Conservation Volunteers Australia. We are coordinating a nationwide environmental volunteering response for bushfire recovery.
Climate Adaptation
Exploring Climate Adaptation in the Yarra Ranges
As the patterns build, I slowly allow myself to admit a rising terror about the changing climate here in Australia. All image rights are Bureau of Meterology> Based on preliminary analysis, yesterday, Australia recorded its hottest day on record. The nationally-averaged maximum daytime temp was 41.9 °C exceeding
Complexity
Fieldnotes - Towards Complexity 101
Why are systems thinking and complexity so... complex? In this post I share one activity and 6 resources to help you to be more comfortable in the complexity of our world.
Platform Design
Paying Attention to Signals
This is a fieldnote which attempts to articulate four ingredients which are mixing around in my head, all converging to inform the development of a platform to support environmental conservation groups.
Conservation
Ending Well
Volunteer Impact is closing down after 6 years of exploring through entrepreneurial and academic paths, and being reborn with Conservation Volunteers.
Experimentation
Free Resource: Experimentation Field Guide
I'm delighted to announce the release of the Field Guide to Experimentation which I developed for Monash University's School of Art Design & Architecture ( MADA [https://www.monash.edu/mada]). Read the Experimentation Field Guide at mada.gitbook.io [https://mada.gitbook.io/experimentation-field-guide/] The field
Strategic Design
What is Strategic Design practice?
Strategic Design practice is made up of a wide range of activities, methods and tools, and is much less well articulated than the likes of Service Design. This post draws on my original post from my Masters research project [https://www.samrye.xyz/masters/], which used Systemic & Strategic Design
Environment
Return to the Fray
At the turn of the year I felt a strong call to return to work on biodiversity & climate. I'm delighted to say that at the end of the month, I will be rejoining Conservation Volunteers [https://conservationvolunteers.com.au/] (Australasia's largest conservation volunteering organisation), as
Systems Change
Towards Targeted Systems Change
Modelling and communicating how to shift systems As I’ve written about in the recent past, [https://medium.com/mdes-environmental-social-impact] I focused my recently completed Masters of Design focused on a domain I’m particularly passionate about — environmental issues. This post aims to uncover some of the research, thinking and
Philanthropy
Learnings about Environmental Philanthropy
Recently I’ve been looking into finding a new home for my skills and experience. One of the organisations I've been speaking to is a leader in the philanthropy sector in Australia.