About us.
Social Innovation is a team sport. Find out more about us and our guiding principles
Who we are
We’re a multidisciplinary community of innovators and designers who leverage discovery, play and experimentation to help communities get and stay ahead now and in the future.
What we do
We design breakthrough products, services, brands, and experiences; craft strategies that help communities grow; and build critical capabilities that transform organisations.
Contact Us
Looking to solve a problem, grow your team’s capabilities, or build new strategy to see change happen from the ground up? We’re here to help. Get in touch so that we can help chart a path forward.
Our Five Guiding Principles
These five principles help guide how Social Impact Design works and develops over time
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Our shared problems persist when we are unwilling to learn from our mistakes
Social Impact design asks why are we afraid of failure? Is failure something to be feared? How can failure and mistakes lead to new discoveries and a better world?
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Solutions, insights and wisdom belong to everyone and not just the chosen few
Social Impact Design asks us to think about how we fail to recognise that prosperity it not about money but about our capacity to accumulate and curate solutions, and then make them available to everybody.
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The best solutions need to be discovered and tested before we look to embed them
Social Impact Design asks us all to be honest because we never know if our designs will work in the real world. So will starting small and testing everything openly help us to find the best version?
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We all have a role to play in understanding the true nature of the problem space
Social Impact Design knows that the problem space is vast and complex, and if we don’t make a concerted effort to ensure we enable as many people to contribute as possible we’ll fail to discover the best solutions.
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Problems are never solved without challenging our underlying assumptions
Social Impact Design reveals that every social problem exists because we struggle to challenge our own beliefs and assumptions first. When we assume that problems are a personal pathology rather than a social/systemic one, we come unstuck.
