By Lindsay Cole, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the Zero Emissions Innovation Centre of Metro Vancouver Welcome to the Climate Justice Field School (CJFS) learning out loud space. This is where CJFS collaborators reflect on what we’ve been doing and learning in our…

By Lindsay Cole, Lily Raphael, Maggie Low, Mumbi Maina, and Kyla Pascal Opening Innovations that aim to work at the root causes of complex challenges must look beyond the dominant paradigms, systems, and structures (e.g. New Public Management, colonialism, capitalism, racism) that created and hold these challenges in place. This is…

By Lindsay Cole, Angie Tangaere, Penny Hagen + Aimee Hadrup Opening In our previous blog we gathered up our shared insights about transformative learning and scaling deep from working across two different public sector innovation (PSI) labs, the Solutions Lab in the City of Vancouver and The Auckland Co-Design Lab in…

By Lindsay Cole, Manager of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab Welcome to Learning out Loud! This is where CFIL collaborators reflect on what we’ve been learning and trying in this experimental space. …

By Lindsay Cole, Manager of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab Welcome to Learning out Loud! This is where CFIL collaborators reflect on what we’ve been learning and trying in this experimental space. …

By Lindsay Cole, Manager of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab Welcome to Learning out Loud! This is where CFIL collaborators reflect on what we’ve been learning and trying in this experimental space. …

by Lindsay Cole + Penny Hagen Opening We have been in a dialogue and writing process together over the last year or so, exploring some of the ways that the two labs that we work with — the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab, and the Auckland Co-Design Lab — have been…

By Lindsay Cole + Lily Raphael — Opening We have been reflecting and writing up the story of the second iteration of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab (SLab), our shared site of practice between the summer of 2018 and the 2021/22 winter. Through holding a developmental evaluation approach, we have continually acted, reflected, learned, and tried again…

Public sector innovation practitioners need to think much more about what to cultivate within ourselves, and what to nurture around us, in order to create stronger leadership and enabling conditions for transformative and emergent innovation. Opening This article follows a powerful research question about the transformative potential of Public Sector Innovation…