Futures
Lighting the fire
What elements need to come together to help us orient for the futures we face, the futures we want to bring about?
Living Labs
Podcast Episode - Living Labs on Future Learning Design
When Tim Logan from Future Learning Design Podcast reached out to say he read our Living Labs report and wanted to record an episode, we rallied the troops and sparked a conversation.
Community Resilience
Resilience & Recovery Hubs - Models from around the world
What makes a Resilience & Recovery Hub? This fieldnote focuses on the influences, reflections and learnings which shaped our thinking in Millgrove.
Challenge-led Innovation
Electrification: reflections on resilience, adaptation & opportunities ⚡
Over the last eighteen months, a large chunk of my work has revolved around a humming central theme: Electrification. It's been less about wires and currents, and more so about the architecture and meshwork of resilience. As I look back on 2025 to where we stand now in
Community Resilience
Advancing community resilience through Millgrove Resilience & Recovery Hub
At the end of 2024 we were delighted to receive word that two of MRAG's grant applications to AusNet's Energy Resilience Community Fund had been approved - both to drive community resilience in Millgrove, Victoria.
relational infrastructure
The Meshwork of Relational Infrastructure
What makes up Relational infrastructure when we zoom in? What are the qualities and attributes that might help us explain how we build it, nurture it and best invest in it - and indeed, what we can expect in return?
intention
On Resonance
What is resonance in all its forms, and how might we focus on cultivating our ability to identify it, orient to it, feel it within ourselves and cast our own signals for others to receive?
Annual Reflection
Coalesce: Learnings from 2025
Reflections on a year of anti-patterning, shifting to a trip around the sun with the intention to 'coalesce' life, work and interests and grow together into the future.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Exploring the impacts of AI on Knowledge, Universities & Labs
AI is disrupting the university monopoly. We can't "hire our way" out of this transition, and trying to control emergence is a losing battle. Are sandboxes our best option to prototype a future University operating model?
Living Labs
Bloopers: Living Labs Report - Part 2: Typology of Living Labs
Living Labs come in many shapes and forms. This post aims to tease out some of the different forms to better understand their strengths and focuses to advance how we build and sustain Labs over time.
Complexity
Trojan Mouse. Trojan Mice!
About a decade ago, I heard the term "Trojan Mouse" as a way to speak about small experiments or safe-to-fail tests. Ever since I've been thinking about what their role is in systems change.
Living Labs
Bloopers: Living Labs Report - Part 1: Generations
Living Labs are evolving over time, geography and in response to the challenges and opportunities for collective action. This post introduces Three Generations of evolution.