The Social Design Lab
We support partners in ways that are tailored to their specific challenges. Our processes promote meaningful change among all actors within a system, ensuring comprehensive and impactful solutions.
Recognizing that complex problems are interconnected and multifaceted, we integrate diverse expertise and approaches, including speculative and participatory methods, to address today’s most pressing social issues.
Together, we do research, design strategies, projects and narratives for aligned partners and ourselves.
What We Do
Research & Design
Understanding lived experiences and realities for designing equitable futures.
Strategy
Ideation and development of bespoke frameworks and roadmaps aligned to organizations and project objectives.
Storytelling
Creating impactful narratives with visuals and new media to meaningfully engage stakeholders.
Learning & Facilitation
Designing need-specific workshops and trainings for co-learning and co-creating.
Our Approach
Speculative
If we can’t imagine it, we can’t create it. We use speculative design to broaden our imagination for the worlds we want to create. And invite others do it with us - futures that are collective, liberatory and decolonised.
Participatory
By co-designing with those who are closest to an issue, we’re deliver a deeper understanding of issues, diverse narratives and opportunities to influence change.
Interdisciplinary
We integrate a range of methods and perspectives, drawing on our diverse experiences and backgrounds. Allowing us to recognise the complexities and interconnections of systemic issues.
We work at the intersection of,
Climate Resilience
Gender Transformation
Cultural Deconolisation
Digital Futures
Just Economies