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Food for Thought Tuesdays @ STREAT

Three mini-experiments with STREAT exploring ways of shifting systems and transforming Melbourne into a more safe, just and resilient city as we look towards 2040.

STREAT are a hospitality social enterprise dedicated to helping young people who need a hand. The team are working at the intersection of social justice, environmental sustainability and systemic design.

2020 (2 months) / Systems-led Design / Volunteer

Paper Play for the Future

Led by seven kids aged 6-12 as tone-setters of the future, we used collage to creatively explore ‘What if you could design how your world looked - what would it look like 20 years from now?’. The kids also created a shared Statement for the Future.

Starting From Place

An experimentation with STREAT staff in ‘the art of noticing’ the world around us to better understand place and how people and natural systems have co-evolved, and draw upon these understandings to build economic, ecological, green futures.

Three Horizons Thinking

A group strategy workshop with the STREAT Executive using the Three Horizons Framework to explore possibilities for STREAT to 2040 and beyond. The session explored emerging change as a way to reframe thinking and plan future action.

 
...organisations need to evolve, running a continuous ‘portfolio’ of prototypes and experiments, where the good ones are continued and amplified, and the bad ones are cancelled. But this idea goes beyond individual organisations or businesses. If we want to shift a system we can also collaboratively run a portfolio of experiments in a ‘network’.
— Mieke van der Bijl. Read the full article.