Love-ins, lobster, and racing cars

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.

Ah-ha: How our definition of family thriving changed

We’ve been busy writing, revising, and visualising our report of the first phase of the Family Thriving Project (we’re on iteration 11 so far!) and trying some new ways to enable practitioners and policymakers to learn and experiment with us. One of our biggest learnings has been about how to define and measure family thriving.

Whole family co-design

Our family learning festival was a success. Not everything worked. We engaged parents and we engaged kids, but we didn’t always engage families. Co-design in and with families is hard work. We have a few hunches as to why…

Ode to honey chicken

Chinese has been the take-away of choice for the families we’ve shared dinner with this week. We’re starting to see some key themes, and find some new words to describe what we’re doing.

What I learned this week

This week, we climbed out of our studio, out of our meetings, out of our cars, and out of our contexts. We had lunches, dinners and coffees with families. Just being with people is always transformational. And it’s been no exception this time around.

Unintentionally exporting social problems

Can the naming of a problem in one culture change how that problem is experienced in another culture? What does this mean for those of us who work on social innovation across cultures?

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