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Lab Matters: Opening up Social Laboratories
The document discusses the concept of social laboratories as a means to address complex societal challenges such as climate change, poverty, and education. It highlights the differences between traditional organizations and social labs, emphasizing the need for openness and collaboration among various stakeholders. The report calls for enhanced learning, critical reflection on change processes, and a focus on creating better methodologies for social innovation.
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- 1. Lab Matters: Opening upSocial Laboratories by Marlieke Kieboom [email protected] Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 2. Once upon atime ... Marlieke Tuesday, November 12, 13 Remko
- 3. Kennisland small (18) NL/Europe International 115 mln independent smarterpeople better society large (342) 1,6 mln research experiment bring people together political lobby Hivos subsidies Own experiments Partner organisations societal challenges + do something education cultural heritage creative economy copyright social innovation public sector Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 4. Social challenges +do something ? C o m p l e x i t y wicked problems public systems social challenges social or cultural problems that are difficult to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, changing requirements and scattered problemholders typically offloaded to policy makers, or written off as being too cumbersome to bother with. time eg. climate change, obesity, migration, poverty, drug trafficking, financial crsisis, unemployment, aging source: Joeri van den Steenhoven / Marlieke Kieboom Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 5. Social challenges +do something ! Sarah Tuesday, November 12, 13 Chris Josine What the # are social labs?
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- 7. traditional organisations vslab source: Satsuko van Antwerp Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 8. Tech Lab vsSocial Lab source: inwithforward.com Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 9. popping up allover the world source: Satsuko van Antwerp / SIG Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 10. Easy to openup data (what) about the stuff you do... .. but not easy to open up organisations (how?) & people (who?) behind the data to learn from each others practice and discover interests (why?) (for whome?) Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 11. Let’s open upthe lab’s black box Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 12. special ingredients tobe open Rigor of the Content historical analysis Frances Westley Learning environmet where we share theoretical debate with whome we share live case studies how we share Read more on SSIreview S. Schulman Tuesday, November 12, 13 KL+Hivos +Lab Practitioners No funders present
- 13. Lab2: the Lababout Labs 20 labs do tank, SI lab, design lab, living lab, fab lab, tech lab, hub, hive, centre for innovation, change lab Issue focus: technical, environmental, economic, social 40 people Africa, East-Asia, South America, USA, Australia, Europe, multi-team: creative researchers, analytic thematic experts, strong stewardship ethnographers, show not tell designers attitude 20 wicked problems Tuesday, November 12, 13 well-being, education, environment, service design economy, public systems change health, research democratization, network poverty methodology dev. reduction, social tech, public sector innovation 0-15 yrs old methodologies: system thinking design thinking co-creation visualization prototyping feedback loops evualuation Funds: Diverse! Gates Foundation, Rockefeller, Hivos, Governments, Worldbank, Unicef work with ‘the system’: policy makers, service providers, end-users, politicians ?
- 14. Lab2: what dolabs do enable families to thrive www.familybyfamily.org.au better education www.onderwijspioniers.nl happy school supply chain: drop outs better toilets www.iminet.org better child new auditing protection www.tacsi.org.au election functional waste system monitoring http://oneearthweb.org Tuesday, November 12, 13 www.ide-cambodia.org www.ushahidi.com http://thefinancelab.org help social start-ups www.bongohive.co.zm http://afrilabs.com
- 15. What did welearn? Lab struggles Lab Team anatomy Hire Lab environ ment Tuesday, November 12, 13 Scale EndMethodol Contracting Funding User ogy Manufactur Time ability Politics Systems Change
- 16. So.. what dowe need more of? Cut the crap Humbleness Share your crap Courage unhype! You are not neutral Engage with each others crap Collective Learning Less crappy solutions Better processes Decision Making Structures Tuesday, November 12, 13 Policy Making Structures Evaluation collective buyin
- 17. We need moredeep learning! ways to get involved ... Lab Matters A Lab of Labs reflect on practice of labs with the aim to arrive at new ideas to try out A report from Lab2, and why learning to reflect on our assumptions about how change happens has value, whether or not “lab” is in your title. 3 by Sarah Schulman http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/ a_lab_of_labs Lab Resources http://lab2.kl.nl Tuesday, November 12, 13 by Marlieke Kieboom Upcoming @ www.kl.nl Lab Ladders 2014? Kenya? Elevate our thinking on social innovation and encourage researchers to study the innovation field more critically from a political perspective by Marlieke Kieboom Upcoming @ www.kl.nl
- 18. Let’s open up Dolabs help to solve complex problems? What would your organisations look like if it was a lab? What challenge areas do you see? Tuesday, November 12, 13
- 19. Thank You! Marlieke Kieboom Kennisland/ www.kennisland.nl [email protected] Lab Resources http://lab2.kl.nl http://sigeneration.ca Tuesday, November 12, 13