Sydney Design Thinking Meetup

 
 
 

Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people keen on design thinking.

Community-based Design is based on the principles of self-determination combined with the concept of co-design. That is, rather than having experts designing for people, the people design for themselves, with the assistance of expert facilitation and coordination.

We can leverage the creativity, context, depth, and breadth of knowledge held by communities to help to solve the problems they know best.
Community-based design is light touch and high impact, designing for real people, not personas.

We will share lessons from three ThinkPlace projects across the Asia Pacific region:

1. Regional NSW – Designing engagement ‘hubs’ to address education, employment, and social issues in Walgett, a remote town in NSW with a high Indigenous population.

2. Singapore - Designing a hybrid engagement for the Alliance for Action for Lower-Wage Workers (AfA for LWW) to support the development of prototypes and user testing, and launching ideas into action with 50 participants from various sectors over nine months.

3. Papua New Guinea – Designing and delivering a comprehensive entrepreneurship training program tailored to the unique needs of the Bougainville community, focusing on starting small enterprises in the primary industries of fishing, agriculture, cocoa and tourism, while addressing social problems.

SPEAKERS

Lee Cooper - Lee is passionate about the power of connecting human potential, innovation, and ingenuity to solve complex social challenges. With 25 years of experience working in social sector organisations and working closely with government, vocation and business sectors, he believes social good comes from the combined value of all sectors. Lee has contributed to actioned based research including From Surviving to Thriving (Dr Andrew Fuller), Managing Hybrid Enterprises Guidebook (UTS), Strengthening Australian Civil Society and Australia Cares (Sydney University).

Bill Bannear - As General Manager for Consortia, Coalitions and Ecosystems, Bill's mission is to drive positive transformation at scale. He supports consortia and coalitions for design, innovation and change that are tackling issues in complex systems. He helps them to connect, find structures for effective working, and facilitates coherence, collaboration, momentum and results.
Prior to returning to Australia, Bill was the Managing Director of ThinkPlace Singapore. As a trusted design facilitator for the Singapore Government, he led foresighting on the future of Singapore as a virtual nation, and the redesign of social services and industry strategies.

Rohan Doherty – As General Manager for International Development, Rohan is passionate about creating real-world impact through genuine conversations with people that elicit deep insights and tangible outcomes. An experienced practitioner in human centred design applications, Rohan brings a deep experience in conducting and facilitating user research, understanding and collecting user insights and translating research outcomes into innovative solutions. He is also a skilled visual designer and communicator, whose deep understanding of the design process enables him to methodically work through complex, multifaceted problems.

EVENT SPONSORS

Think Place Surry Hills

 
 
 

Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people keen on design thinking. This month, Nathan Baird will be sharing his lessons learnt from 20 years establishing and scaling design-led innovation at a team, organisation, and country level.

In this very open and frank talk, Nathan is going to share four personal stories about building and scaling design and innovation practices that he’s been involved in over the years - a brewery, a bank, a nation, and a big 4 consultancy.

It's not just going to be about the successes either. Nathan will also share the false paths the traps and the epic failures, as well as how to identify early on whether your design practice is destined for failure and how to progress, pivot or perish (get out and live to fight another day).

SPEAKER
Nathan Baird
Founder, Innovation Strategist, Facilitator & Trainer - Methodry
Nathan is an internationally experienced author, speaker and innovation consultant living in Sydney, Australia. He is one of the world’s most experienced Design Thinking practitioners, a former Partner of Design Thinking for global management consultancy KPMG, where he established and led KPMG’s Human Centred Design practice. He is the founder of customer-driven innovation and growth firm Methodry.

He has run 100s of innovation projects, 1000s of workshops and spent tens of thousands of hours leading and training innovation across most industries and continents with global giants and market-leading organisations like the Australian Institute of Sport, Bausch & Lomb, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Diageo, Les Mills, Siemens and Unilever, as well as many small-medium enterprises, startups, not-for-profits and government.

He is super passionate about democratising innovation while balancing the need to maintain rigorous standards of teaching and practice to enable all individuals, teams, organisations and countries to prosper and flourish through design-led innovation. In his 20 years of experience in business Nathan has worked both client side and consultancy side, as well as running his own company.

EVENT SPONSORS
Event sponsor will be announced soon.

 
 
 

Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people keen on design thinking. More details coming soon...

SPEAKERS
Speakers will be announced closer to the date.

EVENT SPONSORS
Event sponsor will be announced soon.

 
 
 

Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people keen on design thinking. More details coming soon...

SPEAKERS
Speakers will be announced closer to the date.

EVENT SPONSORS
Event sponsor will be announced soon.