Model

A Union, Guild & Council

The Residency is a practical global learning collective of government, civil society, and social innovators / designers. We act as a Union, Guild and Council for curious minds and lifelong learners applying multidisciplinary and cross-sector craft to complex public problems. 

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As a Union, The Residency creates enabling environments for learning through the collective, and spreading it through member organizations.

As a Guild, The Residency elevates multidisciplinary and cross-sector practice by weaving skills, language and mindsets together, creating sophisticated, situated and plural Change Design craft.

As a Council, The Residency sparks constructive peer response, and exposes members to divergent yet complementary perspectives to problem-solving.

Layered Learning Journey

All too often continued learning occurs through lecture, a reading, a single bootcamp or workshop, however the evidence is clear that people need multiple and repeated dimensions to absorb and apply new skills. We’ve created a layered learning model that provides a diversity of learning experiences. The Residency will provide a space for people to participate on their infinite learning journey as both teachers and learners.

  1. Explicit Learning - from experts with multiple references points to learn both foundational content and latest advancements in the sector

  2. Participatory learning - on real-time projects to learn by doing

  3. On-demand learning -  as you go, just-in-time from mentors with a ‘balcony view’

  4. Peer-to-peer learning - with complimentary-sector buddies and with like-discipline learning clusters

  5. Self driven learning - through crowdsourced resources provided across The Residency collective

Curriculum

The Residency learning curriculum is:

  1. Scaffolding: for learners to co-design what they determine is valuable;

  2. Problem or situation led: guided by a real or imagined problem set or situation, not by projects or services to be implemented or delivered;

  3. Mindset oriented: focused on unearthing disposition, reasoning models, emotions/affects, and rules/norms that influence tactics and strategies;

  4. Regenerative: inclusive of purposeful moments for sustained contributions through artifact creation and beyond; and

  5. Transdisciplinary: building with existing mixed approaches to navigating power, complexity and systems.

Content

The Residency will continually co-build foundational learning in the interstitial topics that allow for exceptional Change Design. This is our working list of content that will be further shaped through collaboration and research.

MINDSETS

  • Design Ethics

  • Power Dynamics and Distribution

  • Situation-centered Design

  • Genuine Multidisciplinary Collaboration

  • Systems Thinking and Systems Change

APPROACHES

  • Participatory Co-design with People With Lived Experience

  • Self-Determined Innovation with Indigenous Populations

  • Prototyping Policy in High-Risk Contexts

  • Implementation Science and Sustainable Design

  • Design for Outcomes-Driven Commissioning

  • Place-based and Collective Impact Approaches

  • Design for Accountability

CONNECTIONS TO SECTOR-CHANGE DESIGN IN ACTION

  • Social justice and legal empowerment

  • Child protection and family well being

  • Public sector health

  • Economic development

  • Ageing experience and populations

  • Housing and place-making

  • Open government & open data

  • Information/ data rights & equity

  • Anti-corruption

  • Public procurement and contracting

  • Public policy making and deliberation

Operations

We are committed to a structure that encourages passion, integrity and creativity. At the core, the structure we have in mind shares power and invites you into an environment that gives back to you as much as you give to it. Membership guides the collective. As a member, you will gain resources, networks and ideas from The Residency. All members will participate in decision-making.

Collective formation will happen in four steps:

  1. Collective members join with a “self-determined contract” stating what they will contribute, and what they want to gain from the collective

  2. Members take on a function, such as mobilizer or knowledge creator, to contribute to the full collective

  3. Members form a self-governed “learning constellation” guided by provisional curriculum to facilitate exchange

  4. A subset of collective members become a cohort of Residents that experience structured layered learning, and test concrete pedagogical tactics to elevating multidisciplinary and cross-sector practice. 

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To join, start by registering here.