Putting the Place back in Place-based
Can we really be Place-based if we only pay attention to the People who live there?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
University Living Labs are a relational infrastructure to orchestrate and catalyse portfolios of impact-oriented initiatives in collaboration with societal partners.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Open Living Lab Days 2025, a conference for Living Lab practitioners from around the world is upon us, and I'm in Andorra to explore three lines of enquiry.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Can we really be Place-based if we only pay attention to the People who live there?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
The lichen-ous current state of my work and community life, and what's coming for the rest of the year.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
When you imagine the future of your Street does it feel like a thriving place to live?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
What value does an innovation orchestrator create, and what are the future aspects we need to address to increase their effectiveness?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Regional innovation doesn't just happen. Exploring the role of orchestration in regional innovation ecosystems - beyond the Lab.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Funding and frameworks for a world in transition - session recording, reflections and exploration| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Join us for a timely exploration of difference types of finance, funding and investment suitable for tackling complex challenges faced by communities in Australia and Canada.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Most people have never experienced a social innovation lab, so how do we talk to these people about what they do and why they're useful?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
The Future of Labs 2024 Gathering Report is out! Find out more about what happened and the recommendations for social (innovation) labs from 65+ practitioners who gathered in Canada to explore the future of lab practice.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Systemic investing is a promising alternative to impact investing - moving away from single point impact funding to a coherent portfolio logic to fund connected systems change initiatives and ecosystems.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Ecotone organising offers a promising approach for fostering collective action on complex challenges. By creating spaces that are independent of existing organizational structures, we can cultivate hybrid cultures, shared capabilities, and flexible governance.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
We need to address the complexity gap in climate responses.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
As our understanding of complex challenges advances and there is global exploration of the ways of seeing, being, doing which enable us to respond effectively - is there still a role for the Lab in the landscape of change approaches?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
What is the role of the "Lab" in the current landscape of approaches to change? What are the core practices and structures to make Labs effective? Where are the potential overlaps, differences and opportunities of connecting to other approaches which are evolving around the world?| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Let's talk about Experimentation Portfolios. Visualising an array of experiments to see active and latent potential to shift systems through living labs, mission-oriented innovation and challenge precincts.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
Together with UNDP Innovation we explored how to make complex ideas, systems and portfolios, tangible.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
A rigorous experimentation approach (experiment-to-learn) will most likely outperform planning-based approaches (analyse-to-predict) where the challenge is dynamic and ever changing (i.e. any complex social and environmental challenge). This post explores how to do experimentation for change.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
