• Interview of Charles Leadbeater: the emergence of a “new normal”
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    Interview of Charles Leadbeater: the emergence of a “new normal”

    Charles Leadbeater is an author and independent innovation advisor. He is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He is the co-founder of “Participle” and has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy. Leadbeater has been ranked among the top management thinkers in the world by Accenture and has won several […]

  • Labcraft
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    Labcraft

    Do you know what a booksprint is? It’s a methodology inspired by hackers’ “code sprints” used to write books in collaborative fashion in a really short amount of time. In May, 2014, La 27e Région participated in a “booksprint” together with eight other social innovation labs from around the world.

  • Friendly-hacking into the public sector
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    Friendly-hacking into the public sector

    On June 17-19, 2013, La 27e Région participated in a conference called CO-CREATE, organized by Aalto University’s SimLab in Helsinki. Researchers from many disciplines involved in various types of co-creation processes attended the conference. Some of La 27e Région’s friends where there, including La Fabrique de l’Hospitalité and User Studio. Click here to read the […]

  • Debate Writing
    Debate

    Debate Writing

    In March, 2013, Jesper Christiansen (Mindlab), Sarah Schulman (InWithForward) and I met in Copenhagen to test a new methodology: Debate Writing. The three questions we discussed together are the following: How do we put social sciences into action, not simply design them? What’s the role of laypersons in our work? Are we simply making tools […]