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…

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…

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…

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…