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?
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.
Complexity
Responding across the system
We need to address the complexity gap in climate responses.
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.
Field Notes
On Relational Infrastructure
Exploring the role of relationships, trust and mutualistic approaches to change.
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.
Narrative Change
Exploring the weaving of Narrative Change & Systems Change
Beyond storytelling as communication about what has happened, toward creating meaning and collective action for intentional change in our world.
Luminary Inquiry
Communicating Systems Change - 5 of the best Resources, Reports & Articles
5 of the best resources, reports and articles about communication for systems change that I have found.
Luminary Inquiry
Exploring how systems change practitioners use communications in their work
This post is a summary of a workshop with systems change practitioners exploring how they relate to communications as a function of their work.
Luminary Inquiry
On Communicating Systems Change: an inquiry takes shape
> Halting climate change. Eradicating disease. Lifting up the arts. Ending poverty. At their core, foundations and nonprofits are in the business of developing and advancing big, bold ideas. If you want your ideas to take hold, you need to communicate and communicate well. It’s not an option anymore—
Complexity
5 Learnings From 15 Years
I remember the feeling as the humid air hit me as I stepped off the plane in Kota Kinabalu, and the rush of excitment as I knew this was the start of a new adventure that I had no idea where it would take me. This new chapter started 15