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.
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Living Labs
Living Labs: recommendations for enabling collective action on complex challenges
How can we create the islands of coherence, the vehicles for co-investment, and create the dojos for the kinds of practices we need to tackle collective action challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, or mental health?
Field Notes
On Relational Infrastructure
Exploring the role of relationships, trust and mutualistic approaches to change.
Work
Towards Net Zero and a return to 'Labs'
Exploring how to support net zero transitions, whilst also powering up Monash's work with living labs - a significant work transition for 2022 & beyond!
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.
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based Solutions - a 2022 scan
The promise of Nature-based Solutions are to address dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, whilst also supporting human health and wellbeing.
Work
Towards collective action for a safer climate
We know that the coming years are crucial for taking rapid collective action if we want to minimise the damage caused by our own actions. It feels important to me personally to bring my skills and experience to the table professionally, having spent the better part of 15 years exploring
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.
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.