Prototyping for change, Week 9

2 months, 6 weavers, 12 recruitment experiences, 7 potential networks, and 3 meet & chats later – and we’ve got a long way to go to answer the questions: How do we actually prompt change for friends & families in caring situations? And how do we engage people in that change process? There’s much more to prototype…

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.

A focus on caring relationships

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.

Ageing: Our new project in Australia

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.

Get-together phone groups go live as part of Southwark Circle

Ge-together phone groups are now live as part of Southwark Circle. You can sign up for your first phone group for free.

Southwark Circle held up as exemplar of the decade that redefined design

New York Times say Participle social enterprise shows what design has achieved in the 90′s

Cognitive Egg Scramble

Teaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education. Instead, continued brain development and a richer form of learning may require that you “bump up against people and ideas” that are different.

Lonely this Christmas

The Guardian feature Get together, a social enterprise designed to reduce loneliness amongst older people.

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