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Apply to be an Applied Ethnographer and spend time in community, learning.
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Design & Social Science Fellowships!
We offer rolling fellowships for designers and social scientists! Experiment with us!
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Thick Data Primer
An argument for thick data: how and when to use this intelligence for good policy.
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IWF History
A summary of our key partners, projects, and hypotheses, 2014-2020.
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Solving homelessness starts with access to a safe bed
Lack of sleep compounds the challenges of precarious housing.
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Lessons from redesigning the Canadian Welfare State
Dr. Sarah Schulman speaking at the SDGC19 Conference in Toronto.
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Senior Designer
In these tumultuous times, the capacity to co-design the future with the people most…
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Let’s [co]me together to [make do] with Covid
CoMakeDo takes on the challenge: what if there was no building-based care?
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Social services weren’t made for pandemics – but here we are
Observations and starting points once the dust settles
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5 opportunities for a new normal
Five opportunities to not return to business as usual.
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