Thinking in Progress

Lab

Our Lab is where we explore emerging ideas, test assumptions, and share thinking-in-progress. Not polished conclusions, but the messy work of figuring things out in complex systems, where signals are partial, outcomes emerge, and learning happens through iteration.

Provocations

Questions and challenges that push against conventional thinking, surfacing hidden assumptions and trade-offs. Ideas meant to spark discussion, not settle debates.

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Experiments

Small-scale tests and prototypes that turn uncertainty into learning. We share what works, what fails, and what we would do differently.

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Our Model

The Lab-to-Land Pathway

We do not do research for research’s sake. Our Lab-to-Land approach ensures insights translate into real-world action, and that on-the-ground feedback reshapes what we study next.

1. Research & Sense-making Identifying emerging patterns and deep systemic leverage points.

2. Pilot & Prototype Testing hypotheses through small-scale, safe-to-fail experiments in real community contexts.

3. Adapt, Iterate, Scale Translating what works into tools and frameworks that communities can steward and adapt.

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We're always interested in provocations that challenge our thinking or experiments we might collaborate on.

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