“I’m young blood in an old container”
February 17-23 was National 75+ Week, at least, in isolated pockets of Vancouver’s…
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Problematizing Scale in the Social Sector (2): Different Economies
Social innovation discourse has a persistent intoxication with big, scalable ideas. But…
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Dear Social Innovation & Social Finance Steering Group
Melvin wants to kill himself. Sandra is off her meds and going downhill quick. Willard…
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Revising our embedded team training & preparing for research Play-back
The week in short: Sarah, Daniela, Natalie and our great new service designer Marie-Eve…
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Surrey Update #3: Synthesis in our studio
For two weeks in December, four members of the Grounded Space team were immersed in a…
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Seven hours, three researchers, ten stories returned.
What if social services returned the data they collected in a way that sparked…
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On & Off the Streets of Surrey
Ethnography with 31 people living on and off Surrey streets to find the non-service users.
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Problematizing Scale in the Social Sector (1): Expanding Conceptions
The social innovation community is entranced by scale. But, what scale are we talking…
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Shameless social policy?
Dale wears a black sweater with painted skulls. He speaks softly, almost inaudibly, as…
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5 things we tried in 2017
We’re all about trial, error, more trial, and when we can, celebrating success! See…
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