Synthetikos

Preparing for tomorrow’s co-design workshop with Nick Scott on mental health and addiction discharge. I just love the view over Halifax from the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub!

Synthetikos is proud to be supporting the Future of Hockey Lab!

FHL team member Dr. Alex Ryan recently attended the Future of Labs retreat, which brought some of the world's top lab leaders together to explore how to design more impactful practices. Here are a few of his top takeaways:

"At the Future of Labs gathering on Cortes Island, we discussed the expectations of lab impacts. If you see labs as vehicles for scaling up innovations, they seem slow and inefficient. However, labs actually build the capacity for system transformation.

They create connections that help systems collaborate and deliberate across different areas. Labs provide examples of what’s possible, expanding our vision for a more just and sustainable future.

Instead of just scaling ideas that fit within current flawed systems, they contribute to redesigning systems to allow many new ideas to thrive - while hospicing old systems that need to die. If your impact measurement is only focused on scaling new ideas, you will miss the most important contributions of social innovation labs to systems change."

Synthetikos (Alex) currently working with Kerr Smith Design and the Pacific Community doing Agriculture and Forest Strategy have created a board game for participatory experiential futures for communities and countries within the Pacific.

If you were ever in a SD workshop with us over the years, you probably would have seen this video at some point which hilariously describes wicked problems. It's 50 years old today!

50 Years Ago Today, Oregon Blew Up a Dead Whale. With Dynamite. On Live TV. The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.