Stories from the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab

Reflections from Moura Quayle, Lily Raphael and Lindsay Cole

Opening

This blog is part of a series that tells stories from the second iteration of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab (SLab) 2.0, which ran from July 2018 — February 2020. This piece describes the design, delivery, outcomes, and learning from the first SLab Community of Practice (CoP), collaboratively created and delivered with the University of BC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs from February — December, 2019. This SLab 2.0 …

Stories from the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab

Opening

This blog is the first in a series that tells stories from the second iteration of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab (SLab), which ran from July 2018 — February 2020. This post is written from my points of view as a practitioner and an academic, and it’s infused by my current Ph.D. research into the transformative potential of Public Sector Innovation Labs. This first post advocates for stronger theorization of public sector innovation (a.k.a. different ways of thinking about how change happens) using the experiences from Vancouver’s SLab as a case.

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And, five re-frames and five successes as we move into iteration 2.0

For more context about the first iteration of Vancouver’s Solutions Lab please check out our report: Navigating Complexity.

Vancouver’s SLab is inspired by the generations of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ / sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Indigenous leaders who continue to care for the land, water, people and animals that call these territories home, as they have done for generations.

Opening

This is a story of what I have learned by building the first iteration of the City of Vancouver’s public sector innovation lab, called the Solutions Lab (SLab). Vancouver’s…