About this handbook
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Context pieces about social innovation labs and the state of the field in Canada.
Illuminating the different lenses and tools labs have for seeing complex systems and other world views.
Practices for working with our intrinsic interconnectedness and ensuring that we're making real transformational change.
The ins and outs of running a lab, from getting started to methodologies, funding, lab typologies and evaluation.
It's intended that this handbook won't be a static document, but rather a piece of collective infrastructure where developing knowledge from the Canadian labs field can be deposited. It's intended as a shared learning resource. We chose to publish it on GitBook for it's integration with GitHub - the platform that powers the Open Source movement.
So this Handbook is essentially Open Source. What does that mean? It means anyone can click the [Edit on GitHub] button on the top right of the screen and propose changes and additions to the handbook for our stewards to approve. For those of you who haven't used GitHub before, here's a handy guide Enspiral created for people to contribute to their GitBook.
If you've got something to add to the Handbook but using the process above don't work for you then you can feel free to email chloe@humanfutureofwork.ca and I'll add in your changes.
This handbook has been developed as a knowledge product of the CONVERGE Canadian Lab Practitioners Exchange hosted by RADIUS SFU in Vancouver June 27-28. 130 lab practitioners and social innovation enablers came together for rich discussions as a field. This handbook contains a synthesis of those conversations, sharing the insights, questions and provocations our team believed would be useful to the Canadian labs field at large.
This handbook would not be possible without the amazing CONVERGE team, our Advisory Group and generous partners.
Team :
Kiri Bird, Associate Director, RADIUS SFU
Sara Blenkhorn, CONVERGE Producer + Director of the Leverage Lab
Nigel Mojica, Communications Officer RADIUS SFU + CONVERGE Co-host
Chloe Waretini, Designer + Synthesis Reporter
Advisory group :
Aleeya Velji, SHIFT Lab
Amanda Hachey, NOULab
Ben Weinlick, Action Lab and Edmonton Shift Lab
Clare Buré, MaRS Solutions Lab
Darcy Riddell, McConnell Foundation
Janey Roh, Kudoz/InWithForward
Keren Perla, Alberta CoLab
Kiri Bird, RADIUS SFU
Lindsay Cole, City of Vancouver
Sara Blenkhorn, Leverage Lab
Saralyn Hodgkin, Social Innovation Institute
Partners :
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
