This week I attended the OpenState event in Adelaide and ran a session exploring the relationship between design, policy and democracy. These are the slides I used to frame the conversation. The session was a bit of an experiment to test an idea that emerged from putting a few pieces of my professional life together […]
Place matters
I was the moderator for a one-day forum this week held by the newly re-established Institute of Public Administration Australia Queensland division about the important of place in tackling complex social disadvantage. These are my “headlines” from a day of energetic and wide-ranging conversations: 1 The thing that turns connected communities into flourishing places is […]
Social innovation’s future: just the right time to make an impact
I wrote this blog as reflection on the recent Wayfinder conference hosted by Nesta in London and run by the Social Innovation Exchange. The reflections are partly to report on some of the big themes of the two days, and partly to put forward a few thoughts of my own about where social innovation as […]
