The question that never goes away: Are we increasing inequality?
The first in a series of posts about why the value set underpinning ‘social design’ work matters. ‘Ethical’ values of equality & fairness are fundamentally different to ‘managerial’ values of innovation & empathy.
A few of our hunches turned out to be not quite right or a little too right this week. How do you encourage divestment? How do you teach? How do you spread? As always, more iterations required.
We’ve been building civil servant’s capacity to meet & hang out with people. We’re finding it harder to build organisational capacity to support & use what we learn.
What does great living look like for people in caring roles & relationships? Our new report tells the story of the Look and Listen phase of the Caring Project, and lays out 7 opportunities for improving outcomes.
It’s been a year with a lot of disruption – but has it been a year of change? A few reflections from last year’s work in Australia, and a few musings for 2012.
Check out what we’ve been up to over the last six months: www.tacsi.org.au/our-projects/design/
We designed LOOPS to develop young people and their communities through shared and surprising experiences. See LOOPS on film for the first time.
An article for Stanford Social Innovation Review comparing what we learnt about social problem solving our tour of North America and how it compares to what’s happening in Australia.
Meet our new radical redesign team at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation. They are the product of our prototype recruitment process!
If you could improve outcomes for one group of older people who would it be? We posed the question in June. Now we can announce we’re focusing our Ageing project on caring relationships – on the caring and cared for.
TACSI gave the keynote address at the ‘How Public Design?’ conference in Denmark, organised by Mindlab as part of Copenhagen Design Week 2011. Hear Brenton and Carolyn talk about Radical Redesign and Family by Family.
Beverly Head, writing in Government Technology Review, contrasts the approach used to create Family by Family with more usual approaches to IT development taken by governement.
How do we know we’re getting results? We take measurement pretty seriously – which is why we don’t always measure everything stakeholders want to know in the way they want to know it. As July’s edition of Wired shows, measurement can shape behaviour.
Family by Family is on the search for an awesome start-up team. Applications due 29 July. Help us spread the word!
Visits with design schools, social innovation orgs, and interesting people in Austin, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Montreal, New York City, San Francisco, Oakland and Canberra has sparked all sorts of (disordered) thoughts. Read our first reflections on the differences between social problem solving in the US, Canada, and Australia – and what we’re inspired by…
Read the first paper from our new project and help us choose a focus for the next 12 months of our work at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation.
Earlier this week the 7pm Project ran a feature on Family by Family in Australia. Thanks to all the families that took part in the filming and to all the families from across Australia who left messages on our Facebook page.
Ge-together phone groups are now live as part of Southwark Circle. You can sign up for your first phone group for free.
The Family by Family “Doco” (as we say in Australia) is now online. Hear the families and professionals we worked with introduce Family by Family and go behind the scenes to hear about the approach behind the project. Available in 10, 16 and 25 minute versions for your viewing pleasure.