Public Sector Innovation Labs: Scaling deep and transformative learning
August 2022
Lindsay Cole (The University of British Columbia) and Penny Hagen (The Auckland Co-Design Lab)
The City of Vancouver Solutions Lab and The Auckland Co-Design Lab have been in a dialogue and writing process together exploring some of the ways that we have been integrating the role of learning into our theory of change.
Transformative learning as part of scaling deep has become a core part of how we think about our work, and we were curious about what we might be able to learn and share with the field if we tried to understand why this has become so important for us, and the role that learning plays in our work.
We found that a focus on transformative learning and scaling deep became more and more necessary for us as we moved beyond doing the surface work of discrete projects and innovation focused on solutions and into longer term initiatives, relationships and learning partnerships that had a better chance of grappling with the systemic transformation of business-as-usual paradigms and practices of government.
The following articles share some of our learning together:
Article One: Provides some theory and identifies six moves towards scaling deep and transformative learning
Article 2: Experiments in transformative learning and scaling deep.
Article 3: Implementing a scaling deep and transformative learning approach.
Our full journal article can be found here.
