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.
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
Design
Exploring Regenerative Design Methods
I was recently invited to work with Swinburne University’s Masters of Design Strategy & Innovation students, to deliver a participatory toolkit session using organic materials to scaffold their reflection on Design Leadership research thus far.
Strategic Design
Design as Strategy?
Exploring the landscape of emerging Strategic Design practice As I’ve journeyed deeper into my Masters of Design [https://www.samrye.xyz/masters/], I’ve explored a vast landscape of practice which focuses on how to intervene in complex challenges from the fuzzy front end of design (Sanders & Stappers
The Relational Field
The Relational Field
Musings on the importance of the quality of relationships in the context of social labs and social innovation programs TLDR; * Building community is an end in itself, and one of the best factors to increase the health and resilience of systems. * Building relationships shouldn't be left to '