About Learn Do Share

Learn Do Share (LDS) is a grassroots innovation engine; a combination of events, labs and peer production. We are a community for open collaboration, design fiction and social innovation.

The three words LEARN, DO and SHARE embody our philosophy: we learn from everyone. we do by prototyping. we share what we learn.

Our events and labs are gatherings for ad-hoc groups to meet, ideate and work out concepts for a common good.

Our peer production cycles help groups stay together to co-create prototypes of their collective imaginations. The most prominent are Caine’s Arcade, My Sky Is Falling, and The BUKE.

Our books, documentaries and projects are carried forth by our participants to inspire other people to do the same.

Our Learn Do Share methodology and framework, which we like to call an OS (operating system) is being adapted by Universities, organizations and makerspaces as a tool to help tackle wicked problems by harnessing storytelling, play, designing thinking and collaboration. Over the last four years, we’ve collaborated with Jorgen van der Sloot and FreedomLab to design and prototype a social innovation lab to explore solutions for complex problems. The Learn Do Share lab runs at our events as well as having been staged for Columbia University, the UN, the City of Los Angeles, UNICEF and the Danish Government.

Tag: Social innovation

There are 4 posts tagged as Social innovation.
29 Aug, 2014

Civic Innovation Lab in Los Angeles

We’re excited to announce Civic Innovation Lab Los Angeles, a new collaboration with Hub LA and the City of LA. Part design lab, part community caucus, part accelerator of urban solutions, Civic Innovation Lab at Hub LA is dedicated to the development of real solutions designed with and for communities throughout Los Angeles.

The Lab’s mission

  • Prototype new ways citizens can productively work with government. Engage community designers, developers, nonprofit leaders, artists, activists, data scientists, policy makers, academics, and entrepreneurs to tackle city-wide challenges that impact housing and education, small businesses, neighborhood stabilization, and transportation
  • – Use Open Data to create solutions that further our local economy and better our communities
  • – Demonstrate a stakeholder engagement process of designing with and for end users

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23 Dec, 2012

remixing storytelling to do some good

These mornings when you wake up and the first thing you do is grab pen and paper to write down the epiphanies you had … 80% are rubbish. But sometimes they’re the bomb. Below is a list that I wrote down in a frenzy one morning: purposeful storytelling* as a remix of schools and techniques borrowing from

. architecture and design re design thinking
. coding re releasing and iterating beta versions
. hacking re disruption and disobedience
. design re open methodology and participation
. biz development re agile management and monetization
. diy culture re entrepreneurship and makerspaces
. gaming re mechanics and community building
. play re incentives and leveling hierarchies
. the arts re collaboration and significant objects
. music industry re distribution and revenue streams
. peer production re participation and crowdsourcing
. tech re platforms and experimentation
. academia re R&D labs
. education re experiential learning and curricula
. entertainment re storytelling and emotionality
. film-making re collaboration and dramaturgy
. marketing and PR re social reach and revenue streams
. positive psychology re ethos and leadership style
. jugaad and jua kali re frugal innovation
. the commons re mindset and share culture

I thought that morning was rather spectacular.

* As a result of researching open collaboration on Robot Heart Stories, I thought of open story mechanisms as purposeful storytelling, which are projects for social good that use story, game mechanics, collaboration, technology and design thinking to convey experiential learning outcomes for both participants and audience.

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23 Sep, 2012

changemaker conversation #2

In our second changemaker podcast, we invited Jochen Schweitzer and Jörgen van der Sloot to share their experiences with design-led innovation, engaging the public and their perspective on business futures.

Both experts in design thinking and business, they talk about future sensing, business development, the role of empathy, technology, and engagement; about bike tanks, crowdshare innovation, and the necessity to adopt cultural change to stay ahead in a networked economy.

Jörgen is Senior Research Director at FreedomLab Future Studies in Amsterdam and lead developer of their ThinkLab methodology that challenges teams to deal with wicked problems in intensive small group power-settings. As a host of such sessions Jörgen helps the team to take an outside-in look from a future perspective and helps to build a mindset to generate new ideas and create alternative visions

Jochen is Senior Lecturer of Strategy at the Business School of the University of Technology Sydney and co-founder of u.lab, a multidisciplinary innovation hub. He has also worked as a management consultant, production-planning engineer and cultural program coordinator with extensive experience in business planning, organisational transformation and change management. His work now focuses on teaching and researching strategic management, collaboration, entrepreneurship and innovation with a special interest in design thinking and social enterprise.

After we stopped recording the two kept on exchanging a few thoughts on alternative business models for research-led organisations and will get back in touch soon to speak more. That’s when our program really serves its purpose; when the right strangers get in touch, share their experiences and start collaborating.

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Jörgen and Jochen talk about design thinking, social innovation and storytelling.
Running Time: 30:24

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15 Jul, 2012

changemaker conversation #1

We invited David Gravina and Lance Weiler to a conversation about their work at the cross-section between social innovation, collaboration and storytelling. They share how they use a combination of these three elements to leverage social innovation, and what collaboration and design thinking means for education, sustainability and entrepreneurship in the 21st century. Coming from an Australian and US American background, the two compare their local and global perspectives, sharing their passion for open design, open collaboration and networked economies.

Part One

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Dave and Lance introduce their projects and companies. Running Time: 9:47

Part Two

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A candid conversation about successes, pitfalls and conditions of social innovation, storytelling and design. Running Time: 21:53

David Gravina is the founder and CEO of Digital Eskimo, a Sydney based strategic design consultancy.
Dave’s links:
digitaleskimo.net
good.do
livelocal.org.au
compostrevolution.com.au
Agents of Change installation

Lance Weiler is a storyteller, experience designer and entrepreneur, founder of Reboot Stories, an innovation engine for digital literacy, cross-generational learning and social change.
Lance’s links:
rebootstories.com
robotheartstories.com
wishforthefuture.com
lanceweiler.com

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