This piece is part of our visualising change series (read more about it here). It was written in 2023 and reflects our thinking at that time. The graphic we share here is from our publication Seeding Futures for Wellbeing and reimagines the Three Horizons framework as creating different conditions for…

Questions to stimulate collective imagining — This piece is part of our visualising change series (read more about it here). It was written in 2023 and reflects our thinking at that time. The graphic we share here is from our publication Seeding Futures for Wellbeing and asks ‘What if Care Economies Really Cared?’ We offer the…

7 everyday patterns to shift systems — This piece is part of exploratory work we have been doing into everyday patterns, and the role and power of re-patterning in systems change with friends and peers at The Southern Initiative and Auckland Co-design Lab. In our introduction we shared seven patterns we have identified across our work and…

Patterns of connection + creativity in distributed leadership — #GCSIWOL7 — Here we share principles and observations from our fortnightly reflective sessions called Chimes, this time about what we can learn about distributed leadership from a jazz band. This is the seventh in a series of blogs in which we work out loud (WOL), putting to ‘paper’ our experience…

Design in motion — Here at GCSI, we have spent several years working alongside groups and organisations designing and implementing new infrastructures[1] for impact-related activities — including new kinds of ‘peak bodies’ (such as Social Enterprise Australia) or new forms of intermediaries to grow approaches to change (such as the proposed Nexus Centre). …

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation (GCSI) is the Learning Partner for the Place Based Capital proof-of-concept pilot Program, which is being led by Ethical Fields in collaboration with Places and other partners. As part of our role, we’ll be publishing some ‘working-out-loud’ reflections as the program unfolds. The aim of…

Continuing the conversation about ‘capitalism after the crisis’ — In February 2023 The Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers penned this piece in The Monthly — Capitalism after the crisis. We were buoyed. The current political environment in Australia isn’t always conducive to the sharing of bold and courageous visions for collective futures. …

This blog is co-authored by Emma Blomkamp, Thea Snow and Ingrid Burkett A co-design coach, a professor of systems innovation, and a public sector innovator walk into a bar. Well, maybe not a bar, but a Zoom meeting doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. In any event, three…

An opportunity to walk alongside Regen Melbourne — Introduction In August 2022, the Griffith Centre for System Innovation published ‘Design Foundations for Systems Capital’. This report consolidated the Centre’s thinking on financing systems change and drew inspiration from others in the field, such as the TransCap Initiative and Catalyst 2030. …