Social Innovation Lab
The Social Innovation Lab is a place for community change makers to get new thinking and connections to advance their work. The lab has three goals:
1. Learn new tools and ways of seeing things that can help advance social innovation.
2. Advance innovative projects that are working to enable sustainable and inclusive communities in Minnesota by applying new learning to featured projects, as well as to your own work.
3. Connect with other change makers, from many fields and perspectives, to share insights and build collaborative relationships.
The next Social Innovation Lab will be scheduled soon. Contact Michael Bischoff (michael@clarityfacilitation.com) to get on the list to be notified about the upcoming dates and topics. There have been three labs so far. You can find information about each of the labs below.
Vulnerability as a Resource for Social Innovation (December 4, 2012):
An introductory presentation by Dylan Skybrook about vulnerability as a resource for social innovation
The PowerPoint slides from the above presentation
A story of organizational leadership from a place of vulnerability, from Theresa Sweetland of Intermedia Arts
You are invited to join this online conversation to share more stories of people and groups leading from a place of vulnerability to build sustainable and inclusive communities.
Click on the image below to see more photos from the December lab on Facebook. You can also find the photos here here.:
Responses from participants about insights regarding vulnerability as a resource, and a list of actions we plan to take.
Network Weaving (Sept. 12, 2012)
Videos, slides, and other harvests from the September 12, 2012 Social Innovation Lab, about Network Weaving
A summary document outlining the learning and outcomes from the Sept. 12 lab
Slides from the presentation about network leadership from the lab
Instructions for making your own network map and an example of a network map, using the Lab as an example.
Descriptions of the 35 social innovation projects we worked with on Sept. 12
A presentation from Sept. 12 about the role of networks in social innovation:
Photos from the Sept. 12 Lab:
Influencing Complex Systems (May 22, 2012)
Click here for videos, photos, visual maps, and notes from that lab
The Social Innovation Lab is an InCommons event. InCommons is a community-based initiative that connects Minnesotans – face-to-face and online – so they can find and share credible tools, knowledge and resources to solve problems.
Co-Sponsors include:
Minnesota Technology of Participation
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