Check out what we’ve been up to over the last six months: www.tacsi.org.au/our-projects/design/
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.
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.
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.
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.
The past three weeks have been packed with meeting new people and learning new things – at the Global Service Jam, the Reos Partners Learning Festival, and even our own InWithFor retreat in Clayton Bay. Here’s what I’ve made of it all…
When Christian Bason of Mindlab came to Australia he was impressed with what his saw.
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.
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.
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.
The latest photos from our family thriving project in South Australia.
Is spending the week pinning posters to a tree too banal for a highly trained social worker? We were out and about this week getting ready for our Family Festival, raising the question: what does event management have to do with social innovation?
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.
Our family project team has grown from two to three! Carolyn joins us this week. Her role is an innovation (and therefore an experiment): a way for us to get better at building the capacity of people within services and systems to do different.
This week we’ve been recruiting families to take part in the first stage of our family project…
We’re now working in, with, for and between families in South Australia to enable more to thrive. The aim is to co-create some sort of cross-community platform, not another service or program. That means we’re looking for ways to support existing organizations and institutions to do different, rather than just doing it ourselves. Do you have ideas for how to do that? We’d love to hear.
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