A unique and groundbreaking collaboration between The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), Centre for Social Impact (CSI) and Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX).
The Social Innovator Dialogues brings international thought leadership and expertise to Australia through a series of events. Including cutting edge thinkers and doers on innovation in public sector policy, social justice and sustainable design, the series will address the big issues affecting decision makers across the public, private and third sector and encourage changemakers in Australia to wrestle with the opportunities and challenges of innovation that are remaking the world as we know it.
The Social Innovator Dialogues comprise three tours per annum that cross Australia. In 2010, the Social Innovator Dialogues will include the Designing Innovation tour in July with Ezio Manzini, the Innovative Collaborations tour with Tonya Surman in September and the Public Sector Innovation tour with Christian Bason in November.
an exploration of trends & models that are changing the world
WITH TONYA SURMAN
Workshops in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney & Auckland. Register here.
Goal: to raise the level of conversation about how innovative ways to collaborate are changing the way we do social innovation.
Description: In this 3 hour highly interactive workshop Tonya Surman will explain why everything that you thought you knew about collaboration is changing, what some of the big trends shaping the future look like and how these changes are going to impact the practice of social innovation. Building on her own experience and insight, and working with the experience and current challenges that participants will bring to the workshop, Tonya will:
What do these models have in common? What is the essence of the new collaboration? How can we better harness the new collaborative innovation models to improve social innovation for a better world?
This workshop invites you to bring your own collaboration challenges and experiences to a group learning space as we co-create a more robust tool kit for innovative collaborations.
About Tonya Surman:
Tonya Surman is founding executive director of the Centre for Social Innovation based in Canada – a dynamic convergence space whose mission is to catalyze, connect and support new ideas that are changing the world. Tonya has been working with social mission groups to collaborate, innovate and achieve success for over 15 years.
Tonya has been founding and managing social enterprises for over 10 years and has built her body of knowledge around multi-sectoral collaboration and entrepreneurship for social change. She is focused on building system innovations and transformations that address the root causes of our social and environmental challenges.
Christian Bason is one of the world's leading pracitioners in Public Sector Innovation. As Director of MindLab, Denmark's Public Sector Innovation organisation, Christian leads a cross-ministerial innovation unit which involves citizens and businesses in creating new solutions for society.
In response to the Australian Government's stated recommendation to set up a MindLab-esque body in Australia and the forthcoming release of Christian Bason's book 'Leading Public Sector Innovation', the Social Innovator Dialogues will bring Christian to Australia in November to share, discuss and learn what public sector innovation looks like (or might look like) for Australia.
Masterclasses and Public Forums in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra & Perth.
Perhaps the world's leading expert on sustainable design, Ezio Manzini sits at the interface between design, community and social innovation with a focus on scenario building toward solutions encompassing both environmental and social quality. A dynamic leader on incorporating social innovation practices into the design of projects and businesses, Ezio brings a wealth of experience, knowledge and know-how and is highly sought after internationally as a speaker and consultant on designing innovation
The July tour brought masterclasses and public forums to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
If you missed out, never fear, you can watch both his public forum and masterclass lectures and see his powerpoints as movies here.
For more info:
Bookings and further information can be found at the Social Innovator Dialogues website: www.sidialogues.org.au
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