Phase 2. Building the Foundations
is about becoming more open to working together, building a shared understanding of the system, brokering agreement that business as usual is not enough to make large scale impact, and partnering with community as the foundation for change.
What you might see
- An eagerness to get going but also a dawning reality of the complexity of the work;
- A developing group of champions for the work;
- A focus on changes that can be influenced or controlled by the current participants;
- People engaging in ‘trial and error’, or experimentation, for the first time.
What you can do
- Collectively explore assumptions about systems, lives, and solutions – current and future – and the actions that could get from the current to the future;
- Build mindsets and capabilities in seeing and working in systems, understanding lived experience, developing effective solutions and place-based systems interventions;
- Avoid worrying too much about getting everything right or having perfect collaboration. The goal is to learn.
Innovation Tools & Resources
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Understand where your initiative is on the Collaborative Change Cycle
The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a framework for describing transition processes in complex socio-technical systems. This canvas is designed to help participants think about change on these different levels and how it can be used to enable disruptive innovation.
Systems Innovation
2. Building the FoundationsThe August Wilson Red Door Project's ground-breaking production of Evolve is about racial profiling but from a multiplicity of perspectives. In this video, Artistic Director Kevin E. Jones explores what it meant to create the conditions for change.
Kevin E. Jones
This video explores how conflict – often seen as the enemy – can be an asset to partnerships when understood and harnessed. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.
This video explores how understanding the idea and impact of ‘roles’, and separating yourself from a ‘role’ you are in a group, supports resilience and sustainability in collaborations. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.
This resource describes different types of insight, the attributes of a good insight, the place of insights in design processes, and how to create stronger insights.
Downloadable pdf
This resource unpacks key concepts of ‘co-design’ and explains how the range of design-based traditions that sit under the co-design banner have something very important to bring to social innovation.
This resource can help you deepen your understanding of facilitation.
Change Cycle Locator Tool
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