What is Co-production? How do we make it happen in our communities?
The May 2013 DwD was presented by Satsuko vanAntwerp and Lucie Stephens at the new location of The Moment. The workshop presented the context of citizen co-creation of services at the community level.
We are the public and therefore all public services are of our making, our legacy, and our experience. However, the complex challenges the world faces right now – changing demographics, fiscal reductions, environmental collapse, growing inequality – are straining these services and pushing us to question how we act, organize and respond as citizens and communities.
Co-creation and co-production offers a new perspective that values the vital resources already present within the system – the skills and resources held by citizens and communities in and around public services. The dialogue session explored the questions of:
- What is our role as citizens in making services more effective, efficient and sustainable?
- What would it take to make better use of wider resources in community and see all citizens as assets?
- How might we grow our social networks and rethink our capacity to lead change within our community?
Live sketchnotes at the event by Playthink
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Lucie Stephens is the Head of Co-production in the Social Policy team at nef (the new economics foundation). Her work aims to increase the amount of co-production taking place in public services in the UK and overseas. Lucie supports people to develop their co-production practice, documents examples and develops the theory of co-production, sharing learning and auditing existing activity. She works with people in communities, charities and third sector organisations, policy makers and people designing and delivering public services. Lucie’s publications on co-production include: The Co-production Manifesto, Public Services Inside Out and The New Wealth of Time.
Satsuko VanAntwerp is the Manager of Social Innovation at Social Innovation Generation (SiG). Her work aims to create legitimacy and structure for the nascent field of laboratories for social change and to incentivize collaboration among lab practitioners. Prior to joining SiG, Satsuko participated in a work-term on co-production with Denmark’s MindLab and assisted with the paper: Designing For Co-Production: Discovering New Business Models For Public Services. Satsuko holds an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship and is an avid blogger on social innovation and systemic change at Think Thrice.


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SmartTalk : Engagement for the PanAm Games | DwD 6.12.13
How might we deeply connect the PanAm Games to our communities to ensure social innovation and economic impact?
Leading with smartTalk, Pam Purves will guide this DwD workshop to produce guidance and insight for the upcoming PanAm Games through creative citizen engagement. Our assignment is to identify ways in which various communities within the GTA can contribute to the overall short and long-term benefits of the Games. The DwD workshop will address one or more of the following impact issues:
Pam will coordinate a report following this session for the Chairman of the PanAm Games, as a deliverable of the session.
ABOUT SMARTTALK
Participants will learn about smartTalk through participation in the workshop, a strategic dialogue method developed by Pam Purves.
smartTalk is a consultative method that has been designed to encourage collaboration, creative thinking and the co-creation of solutions or recommendations. It is multi-disciplinary in structure. It begins with opinion gathering and works through the negotiation of solutions and the design of a set of recommendations and action steps. Because it is multi-disciplinary, it exposes participants to a variety of points-of-view and values resulting in fresh thinking and lasting outcomes.
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WORKSHOP HOSTED BY
Pam Purves, Principal, PLA Strategic
Pam is a strategic marketing and communications consultant whose practice includes national and international clients in the public policy, health care, business and financial services sectors.
In 2000, she started PLA Strategic,Dersity of Guelph and is a fine art photographer. She has exhibited her work in Toronto and Caledon, Canada, Nevis W.I., Asolo, Italy and Port Medway, Nova Scotia.
ABOUT IGNITE
The IGNITE program is a community partnership enabling individuals, organizations and communities to be associated with the Toronto 2015 PanAm Games, and hopes to encompass the projects and events inspired by the Games coming to the region. IGNITE aims to engage the region to connect together to build excitement around the Games, invoke pride within the region and leave a positive legacy.