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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.  ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...