social innovation thinking - circus

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Contents

My journey

The big idea

How you and society can benefit

A vision for the future

In the beginning

Inequality Social change

Photo: EmanueleSilvestro

Photog Frank Baron

Flashpoint Labschangemaking photography

Social entrepreneurship great but…

‘Not everyone is a an entrepreneur’

Big Idea

Maybe not everyone is a social entrepreneur,

but everyone can be a social innovator.

What is social innovation?

‘A new idea that has the potential to improve the quality of life for society.’

Paraphrasing: Edwardo Pol and Simon Ville

[Really!] successful social innovation

‘Has durability and broad impact… it

profoundly changes the beliefs, basic routines, resource and authority flows of any social system in the direction of greater resilience [antifragility].

Social innovators can use:

Social innovation thinking is an approach to make you think in a way this is more universally conscious and innovative; it aims to make your decisions better for yourself and society.

Aim (Macro and Grandiose)

The aim of social innovation thinking is to find wicked problems in complex systems and co-design thriving solutions that are sustainable, antifragile and lead to improved well-being.

Aim (Micro and Humble)

The aim of social innovation thinking is to assist people in making better decisions about how to improve the well-being of their communities and society.

A crucial shift

Replace profit and the profit motive with wellbeing and a holistic motive.

Replace detached economic rationalist analysis with an understanding of systems, complexity and dynamics.

Key criteria: 5 bottom lines

• Socially Beneficial

• Environmental Sustainable

• Culturally Stimulating

• Economic Viable

• Politically Influential

Skills and Tools

• Social Science

• Community Development

• Business

• Design

Source: The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

Social Innovation Thinking

Political Economics

Community Governance

Design Thinking

Social Entrepreneurship

Methods

Kees Dorst – Frame Creation TACSI – Working Backwards

8 themes/processes

• Problem finding • Human centred • Assets based • Interdisciplinary• Collective impact • Iterate• Prove value• Transform

Flashpoint Labs Example

• Socially Beneficial

• Environmental Sustainable

• Culturally Stimulating

• Economic Viable

• Politically Influential

What is the application to commercial creativity?

• Switch profit for wellbeing

• Switch eco-rationalism for systems, complexity, dynamics

• Use 5 bottom lines approach

• Use the various skills, tools and processes

• Genuinely care about creating a better society

Vision for big idea

• Everyone a social innovator.• Everyone working in social enterprises.• Social enterprises collaborate and network.• New economy based on participatory economics.• Redistribution of power for direct democracy. • We live in a just, sustainable and creative world.

Thank you - Find out more

• Social Innovation Thinking • The Australian Centre for Social Innovation• Social Innovation Exchange• The Young Foundation• Helsinki Design• OpenIDEO• NESTA