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System Sensing for Changemakers - exploring the wisdom of the senses.

Systems Sensing for Changemakers

Join us for an immersive exploration of Systems Sensing, a practice that taps into the innate wisdom of our senses to support change makers working ...

Understanding Your Nervous System

A path to greater connection, creativity & response-ability. By learning how your nervous system responds to stress and safety, you’ll gain practical techniques to cultivate ...

Trauma Informed Design Research

Trauma is common within society at large and is particularly prevalent amongst vulnerable populations, First Nations peoples and people with Lived Experience of mental health ...

Designing public policy

Dr David Lilley will present his recent PhD research which is part of a quest to understand why health, wellbeing, and equity are not being prioritised in ...

PhD Research: Designing Regenerative Transitions

Creative Approaches to Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)

Creative Approaches to Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in Challenging Contexts Dimitrios Papalexis from Soulgen will discuss how to creatively mobilise local strengths and assets to tackle obstacles in youth ...

Selling Community Adaptation with Kiri Bear frokm Amble Studios - Background image is of people's hands playing the Adaptation Game

Selling community adaptation with Kiri Bear from Amble Studios

Selling Community Adaptation : Turning a social change, community engagement initiative into a product What happens when you cross a team of nerdy role-playing do-gooders with ...

Designing for an economics of radical interdependence

How might design help to foster systems-level transitions towards regenerative economics and bioregional governance? What is the practical value of design in embedding non-human perspectives and ...

Changemakers listening circle

What’s happening in the world at the moment? Have you too been asking yourself this question? Designers and researchers are navigating the territory of new ...

Designers Listening Circle : Navigating our Practice from Personal to Collective

The design field is constantly evolving and we are working within the context of a greater transition to more sustainable and regenerative ways amidst current ...

Redesigning education for uncertain futures

One in four young people in Australia (aged 15-24) are experiencing significant psychological distress. Young people have been described as the ‘canaries in the coal ...

Youth Participation at yourtown

yourtown’s mission to enable young people, especially those who are marginalised and without voice, to improve their quality of life. Learn about yourtown’s service design practice working with ...

Reading Salon 2 : Living on Stolen Land

Join Social Design Sydney for our second reading salon! We will be discussing a short book of prose called Living on Stolen Land By: Ambelin Kwaymullina Living on Stolen ...

Designing for Liberation with Tania Anaissie

Designing for Liberation with Tania Anaissie How might design practice need to adapt to serve the social sector? How might we align our design practice to ...

Community led transiton processes with Kimberley Crofts on coloured texture - Date April 6th at 12-1:00pm AEST

Community-led Transition Processes with Kimberley Crofts

Moving towards sustainable transitions is so critical in these times. Amongst many other events, the recent catastrophic floods in Australia are testimony to this. What is the place ...

Universal Design with Patricia Moore

Design legend and Universal Design pioneer, Patricia Moore will share stories of her renown work. Patricia (Pattie) Moore is a pioneering female designer, gerontologist (social scientist ...

Decolonising Design in Practice

As practitioners who want to contribute to ethical, inclusive, equitable change, enabling futures that are non-oppressive, non anti-black, and trans-inclusive, it is critical that we ...

Participation & Collective Dreaming

Join us for this special event where we will talk about participation and collective dreaming. Our speakers will share some creative participatory practices from their ...

Lets talk about Design Justice

What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? “Design justice is a framework for analysis of how design distributes benefits and burdens between ...

3 Horizons Meets 2 Loops

Join the journey… Social Design Sydney and the Systems Change Salon are committed to building social and systems change understanding and capacity. This year, the System Change Salon and Social Design Sydney have been experimenting ...

Codesign and Power

Social innovation is inescapably intertwined with power, yet the important topic of power and how it operates in relationships between people is often overlooked.

Systems Change Doing : Transitioning to Better Futures

Come join us to hear about the practices of three forward thinking Australian practitioners working to create systems change. Learn about their transdisciplinary practices that sit ...

Co-Design for Change Makers

Expand your capacity to make positive social change and spend time with like-minded change makers! You will learn about some innovative participatory tools, frameworks and ...

How might we … support systemic social change?

Dr. Andrea Siodmok and Sanjan Sabherwal from the UK Policy Lab connected with the local design and change community to share their work using Data, ...

Designing with Community

How might Design practices function as inclusive strategies to support Community participation in design and development of community focussed initiatives? Too often, people with little ...

Designing our future: A conversation about the Anthropocene, Transition design and Sustainability

8th May, 2017 Humans are the first single species to have seriously disrupted the biosphere's critical life support systems and are now the dominant force ...

Systems Change with Systemic Design

25th September, 2018 Systemic design is a recent initiative that combines systems thinking with human centred design to create wholistic solutions to complex problems. Mieke ...

Designing with: Participatory approaches to build resilience

18th May, 2018 Our panel share their different approaches to designing for and with community. Yoko Akama (RMIT) discusses her ‘readiness’ approach to participatory design, ...

Designing with: People powered social change

Vivid – 4th June 2018 Learn about ‘Designing with’ people in very different scenarios, with case studies and research for participatory projects ranging from community ...

Is Co-design the Silver Bullet?

Sydney Design Festival – 5th March, 2018 There’s a lot of talk about co-design in all sectors these days. But does co-design always lead to ...

Transition Design

6th December, 2017 Transition Design is an emerging field of design research, practice and study, which looks toward design-led societal transition toward more sustainable futures. ...

Designing with Vulnerable People : Case study

23 October, 2017 An in depth view of a specific social design program; hear from the designers involved, the government client and the team responsible ...

Designing Systems Change

3 July, 2017 How might we (re-) build systems across sectors with people that help rather hinder them to move forward? Kerry Graham (Collaboration for ...

Dr. Andrea Siodmok: Head of the UK Policy Lab

6th March, 2017 The UK Policy Lab is a creative and experimental space, designed to help the government get better at policy-making; open it up, ...

Designing with Community: A Conversation about Social Labs

7th Feb, 2017 A growing number of people are focusing their heads, hearts, and hands on addressing complex social challenges through Social Labs. Three leaders in ...

Designing with Young People

20 September, 2016 Three quite different projects using participatory approaches are presented; Participatory documentary with young people, Phillip Crawford, film-maker (Beyond Empathy); Designing with Young ...

Designing for Wellbeing 2

27 July, 2015 Daniel Mohr (InWithForward) discusses the Fifth Space Project and building design capability amongst non-designers. Jax Wecshler (Sticky Design Studio) presents a recent ...

Designing for Well Being

23 July, 2014 A conversation, and global case studies discussing designing for wellbeing. Dominic Campbell (FutureGov), Danielle Madsen (TACSI) and Susan Wolfe (OE Strategy) present ...

Designing with people : Understanding people’s worlds

22 March, 2016 Conversation and case studies about design research in complex social contexts, and the moral and ethical responsibilities of social designers. Speakers include ...

Designing Citizen-centric Policy & Services

3 June, 2014 Australian case studies discussing citizen involvement in the design of public policy and services at the state, local and federal government levels. Speakers ...

Designing With Older People

The rapidly growing ageing population presents real opportunities for design led innovation. Four designers present their experiences: Dr Catherine Bridge (UNSW) – co-design and the ...

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