The latest from our projects…
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.
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.
Family by Family is on the search for an awesome start-up team. Applications due 29 July. Help us spread the word!
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.
The Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, and Victoria Seadon, age 13, helped us officially launch Family by Family last night! Watch our new Family by Family doco, see the new Family by Family website, and hear us on the radio!
Our Australian Radical Redesign team is 1yr old. We’re growing and hiring people to help us get bigger. If you’ve got a background in design, policy, business or community this could be your opportunity to work with us.
We’ve finished prototyping Family by Family and moved into the build stage. Whilst we’re running numbers and building the business case why not download our latest project paper and tell us what else you’d like to know about Family by Family.
What happens when you meet with an applied academic, realist evaluator, business analyst, and social return on investment consultant?
How does context shape social innovation? The LIFE programme is a new approach to family crisis in the UK, much as Family by Family is a new approach to preventing family crisis in Australia. There’s lots to learn from each other.
A trip to Port Arthur to see the ‘separate’ prison made me wonder whether our family project rightly balances the interests of our different user groups. This week, we started to shift the balance.
It took a while to get there, but finally we have some promotional materials that are helping us get across the key messages of Family by Family.
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