Living Guide to Social Innovation Labs
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  • Introduction
  • Seeing
    • Understanding Complex Problems
      • Challenge Statements
      • Systems Thinking
      • Systems Mapping
      • Leverage Points
      • Wicked Questions
    • Design Research
      • Design Thinking
      • Ethnography
      • Interviews
      • Journey Mapping
      • Service Blueprint
      • Sensemaking
      • Dashboards
    • Systemic Design
    • Identifying and Engaging Key People
      • Stakeholders
      • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Doing
    • Co-Creation
      • Convening
        • Is Convening the Right Tool?
        • Types of Convening
      • Facilitation
      • Collective Impact
      • Ideation
    • Prototyping
      • Prototyping in a Lab Context
      • Testing
      • Types and Modalities
      • Prototyping Approaches
    • Scaling
      • Growth Thresholds
      • Scaling Up, Out, Deep
      • Tactics for Scaling
      • Scaling Strategy
    • Monitoring, Measuring and Communicating Impact
      • Types of Evaluation
      • Logic Models
      • Measures and Metrics
      • Standards of Evidence
      • Evaluating Complexity
      • Communicating Impact
  • Being
    • Innovation Labs and Process
      • Agile Project Management
      • Value Proposition
      • Theory for Change
      • Business Models
    • Resourcing and Team
      • Lab Partners
      • Team Expertise and Skills
      • Wellbeing of Remote Teams
      • Funding
    • Inclusion and Equity Practice
      • Power Structures
      • Innovation for Real Transformation
      • Truth and Reconciliation
      • Recommendations for Inclusive Practice
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  • Co-create new understanding, new challenge framing, new shared visions
  • Co-create new solutions
  • Co-create change at scale

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  1. Doing

Co-Creation

The process of creating something with others, towards a mutually valued outcome

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Moving the needle on a complex problem requires an understanding of the great potential of convening people, using effective processes and methodologies. Working with people, and the trust and action of these people, is a key part of tackling a complex problem. In fact, it would be virtually impossible to do it without them.

Co-creation (that is, creating something with others towards a mutually valued outcome) can happen across lab activities including to:

Co-create new understanding, new challenge framing, new shared visions

  • This helps us to understand how and why the system behaves the way it does

  • It can help to define Collective Impact (who share a common agenda for change)

  • For example, lab participants (with often widely varying or even opposing agendas) can decide on a convening question that outlines a future state that everyone can subscribe to, such as that of the : How can Alberta’s leadership position in today’s energy system serve as a platform for transitioning to the energy system the future needs?

Co-create new solutions

  • This includes ideation, design, prototyping, and testing new solutions

  • Here, we can level-up solutions from basic concepts to first versions, to functional versions, and

  • For example, to improve urban wellness in the city

Co-create change at scale

  • Here, we understand the market and systems that can influence the growth and change of the solutions

  • We can also develop and test business models and a growth strategy for what we are creating

Collective Impact
Energy Futures Lab
minimally-viable prototypes
RECOVER in Edmonton created a number of prototypes