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Conversation with Adam Kahane & Jeff Barnum [Reos]: managing labs, change and power.

Denise Withers — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:42:27 +0000

Adam Kahane and Jeff Barnum play lead roles in the global change lab movement, through their organization Reos. They’re in Vancouver this week to meet with leaders in social innovation and to help launch the Belonging Lab. Moura and I met them in a small group to chat about our own change lab work, both …

Cool [free] timeline tool helps you tell your story visually

Denise Withers — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:33:33 +0000

I just used Tiki-Toki‘s sweet timeline tool to tell the story of the Sauder Studio. Check it out here!

Re-inventing life in the swamp

Denise Withers — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:34:40 +0000

To borrow a delightful phrase from Soren Hansen and Henning Sejer-Jakobsen, one of the chief benefits of change labs for social innovation is that they allow us to lift our change process – “away from the swamp of everyday activities — routine, fear of failure, prejudice, bureaucracy and rules.” Instead, change labs offer us environments that …

Designers. Are we our own worst enemies?

Denise Withers — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:24:56 +0000

The good folks behind Profit By Design generously invited me to attend their conference at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD) last weekend, in my emerging role as the “something or other” at the Sauder d.studio.** The two-day event featured a series of presentations and panels focused mainly on product and industrial design. …

A visit to MindLab: the essence of innovation

Denise Withers — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:43:22 +0000

I was lucky enough to spend 90 minutes visiting Christian Bason, Director of Innovation, at MindLab on a frosty day in Copenhagen last week. Through the Sauder d.studio, Professor Moura Quayle and I have been invited to help shape a proposal for a new social innovation “change lab” in British Columbia with the B.C. Advisory Council …