Social Labs
The Future of Labs - Part 4: The Language of Labs
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?
Social Innovation
The Future of Labs - Part 3: Report & Explorations
The Future of Labs 2024 Gathering Report is out! Find out more about what happened and the recommendations for social (innovation) labs from 65+ practitioners who gathered in Canada to explore the future of lab practice.
systemic investing
On Systemic Investing
Systemic investing is a promising complement to impact investing - moving from single point impact funding to a coherent portfolio logic to fund connected systems change initiatives and ecosystems.
Social Innovation
The Future of Labs - Part 2: Reflections
As our understanding of complex challenges advances and there is global exploration of the ways of seeing, being, doing which enable us to respond effectively - is there still a role for the Lab in the landscape of change approaches?
Social Innovation
The Future of Labs - Part 1: Foundations
What is the role of the "Lab" in the current landscape of approaches to change? What are the core practices and structures to make Labs effective? Where are the potential overlaps, differences and opportunities of connecting to other approaches which are evolving around the world?
Social Innovation
Hello Canada
Exploring the beating heart of social innovation in Canada in 2024, and exploring the Future of Labs.
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.
Work
Transition: Conservation to Regeneration
My new role is focused on support the Regenerating Australia program, which includes a short film by Damon Gameau, a community visioning workshop resource, an online network, $2m Challenge Fund, and a series of Local Learning Labs - which is what I've been brought in to design.
Complexity
The 'so what' of complexity - Part I
It's been the best part of 10 years I've been exploring and writing about complexity now - it's about time to capture some of the main learnings about the implications, rather than the substance.
Research
Fieldnotes: Ethics In Lab Team Research
The Lab environment, it may be their first exposure to engaging in collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and prototyping, thus we have a responsibility to make part of our container setting about exploring ethical considerations.
Program Design
On Sustaining Impact
This article is a plea to stop pouring so much resource into solely “getting ideas started” and then making them pitch for funding.
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 '