Jax Wechsler

Category Archives: social design sydney

Design as Performance with Grace Polifrono Turtle

Since 2013, I have been running a community of practice in Sydney, Australia called Social Design Sydney. Our site has over 60 video case studies relating to Design for Social Outcomes filmed at our events. 

Sometimes we run masterclasses on a Saturday morning where we expose our Social Design community …

Social Design related events at Vivid

The Sydney Vivid festival is not too far away!
I have gone through the HUGE program and picked out events relating to Social Design.
Hope to see you there supporting these events.

Design for Social Innovation Conference
Connecting Creatives, Councils and Communities
Do GOOD be GOOD Conference and keynote
Place Lab: Creating a Sense of Place for Migrant …

Designing for Impact talk

A talk I recently gave at Social Design Sydney discussing my work with NSW Family and Community Services and designing for IMPACT.

Designing for Wellbeing event

Social Design Sydney event held: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Speakers & videos
Dominic Campbell is a digital government specialist and social innovator. He established FutureGov in the UK in 2008 and has co-founded several start-ups such as Patchwork a collaboration tool for multi-agency working, currently focused on children and families intervention, Casserole a peer to peer meals on wheels service, and …

Designing with Citizens videos

Social Design Sydney’s Designing with Citizens : Citizen-centric policy and services event was held on June 3rd.

This event consisted of conversation and Australian case studies discussing citizen involvement in the design of public policy and services at the state, local and federal government levels.
The speakers
Jane Treadwell World Bank Government Transformation Senior Consultant, owner of Jane Treadwell Consulting, and former Chief Executive Officer at DesignGov (Australian Centre for Excellence in …

Designing With Citizens Event

Citizen-centric Public Policy & Services
Join us for some conversation and Australian case studies discussing citizen involvement in the design of public policy and services at the state, local and federal government levels.

Date: June 3rd, 2014
Time: 6:15pm
Place: College of Fine Arts, UNSW Greens Rd Paddington NSW Australia

http://socialdesignsydney.com for more information

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