💡 How Indigenous thinking can save the world

Hey! 👋
A really busy one for us this week as we get the Learning Festival together. We're soft-launching the website with our fantastic opening event while we sort the rest. Spot any snags? Do let our tiny team know! We'll sort asap. Onwards, and have a lovely weekend.
James.

🚀 A turbulent year unpredicted by most, we’re holding a space for us all to ask good questions and make some sense of now. Welcome to our Learning Festival!

🧭 Award-winning author Tyson Yunkaporta leads our opening event with a powerful Indigenous perspective. Register for the festival’s opening event, 1 June.

🎭 Pulled in from across readers of this newsletter and friends from further afield. A tease of our other festival sessions.

🤖 How have design, digital and data come from the fringes to play a frontline role in the pandemic recovery? Sign up for next Wednesday's call (our last for a while).

🤝 Thanks, Stephanie, Stephane and Dom who discussed keeping the urgent partnership building they've seen across local and federal government alive. You can watch the recording of call #8.

🗺️ Kelly Duggan is making us a festival map. Think of it as a community art project on Miro. Take a peek below.

The festival begins!

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” ― Eric Hoffer

This festival is about paying attention to practice, about experimenting in online convening and connecting, about being emergent to our shifting context and needs, and creating space for reflection. It is not for one-way conversations or perfectly curated and polished answers. It’s about asking better questions.

Brenton is very happy to welcome you all to our Learning Festival.

Indigenous thinking can save the world

Join us for a thought-provoking session with Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world. We’re discussing knowledge, communication, complexity and learning from the perspective of the world’s oldest living culture. A taste of the conversation from Sand Talk:

“We are accustomed to a certain way of thinking. We want the world to be simple, but we talk about it in complicated ways.

Indigenous thinking is different. It knows the world is complex and finds deep ways to communicate this knowledge through pictures, carving, stories.

What happens if we bring an Indigenous perspective to the big picture - to history, education, money, power? Can we, in fact, have proper concepts of sustainable life without Indigenous knowledge?”

🗓️ 1 June 09:30 London | 18:30 Melbourne
Your time wherever you are in the world

Join the opening event

🎭 Also on the bill

A tease of the great sessions we have lined up. We'll send the registration links to these next week.

We’ll look at ‘how we can make mission-oriented innovation actually happen’ with Rowan Conway. While exploring ‘how governments think, and how they could think’ with Geoff Mulgan.

Get hands-on with ‘designing radical collaborations for change’ with Panthea Lee. Which takes a new form of leadership, one Abe Greenspoon explores.

And Ol Jonatan Beun and the Policy community in Canada take us through practical sessions on ‘nudging our way out of this mess’ and ‘gamifying the future’ respectively.

We’ll interrogate ‘the cold hard truth about privilege’ with Aarathi Krishnan.

Learn about what portfolio approaches to innovation look like in Finland with Mikael Seppala and then get work with the UNDP regional office in Bangkok on how to begin building your own portfolio approach to complex issues.

Delve into the work of Nora Bateson’s Warm Data Labs. Cassie Robinson helps us think about stewarding organisation loss and letting things close gracefully. Plus a whole lot more!

From fringe to frontline

Design, digital and data in COVID response and recovery

Practitioners in the disciplines of design, digital and data have long argued the case for a more strategic uptake of their approaches in policy-making and public service design. With the arrival of COVID-19, these approaches have been thrust into the heart of decision-making and response, as we try to understand the impact of the crisis and rapidly build and deploy our response. So what does that look like in practice? And how can we build on this moment to create a legacy that can endure beyond the crisis?

Join us as we explore these topics with Misha Kaur, Assistant Commissioner - ATO Design at Australian Taxation Office, Eddie Copeland, Director of the London Office of Technology & Innovation (LOTI), and Ben Ceverny, President, Foundation for Public Code.

27 May at 09:00 London | 18:00 Canberra
Your time wherever you are in the world

🗺️ A peek at the festival map

Kelly has penned almost all the sketch notes we've featured in this newsletter. Now she's designed a Miro map, for all of us to collaboratively sketch and doodle our way through across the festival. Here's a peek:

A Miro map of the festival. With tents for the different areas.

If you have any feedback or something you would like to share in the next newsletter, please let us know in our anonymous form, or hit reply and chat with me! 👋

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