Mandate Letter 2019
Dear Team, History is nothing if not humbling. Behind glass, in the darkened basement of…
Read more
Blog
Emotional Geographies
Emotional ambivalence is the theme tying together Grounded Space teams in Ontario and B.C.
Read more
What’s it like to join a sprint in an embedded social design team?
Being part of an embedded design team in a social service agency requires being able to…
Read more
Four years, 22 teams and over 26 prototypes later
We were wrong. We've disproven the hunch that led us to Canada.
Read more
Moving away from standardization after the Social R&D Practice Gathering
Grappling with questions about legitimacy, impact, and inclusion, Natalie calls for a…
Read more
Is there an ‘I’ in innovation for integrity?
“They don’t get it.” Fox and I are having a coffee. It’s Saturday morning.…
Read more
Our favourite human moments
There’s a lot of fancy words out there to describe what we do – ethnography,…
Read more
What’s work, for whom?
What is a good life, as defined by people living in DTES? How do work and money fit…
Read more
Innovation is not vision
Why innovation is a substance-light language of progress - not a vision.
Read more
The two-loop model for getting from best to next
A perspective we hear about social innovation is that the innovators lack understanding…
Read more