Scaling deep through transformative learning in public sector innovation labs – experiences from Vancouver and Auckland
August 2023
Lindsay Cole (The University of British Columbia) and Penny Hagen (The Auckland Co-Design Lab)
How we think about, talk about and "do" scaling in the public sector is something we've been wrestling with for while (and still are!).
This was an opportunity to pull together some of that thinking and learning with Lindsay Cole in this open access journal paper: Scaling deep through transformative learning in public sector innovation labs.
This article explores scaling deep through transformative learning in Public Sector Innovation Labs (PSI labs) as a pathway to increase the impacts of their work.
Using literature review and participatory action research with two PSI labs in Vancouver and Auckland, we provide descriptions of how they enact transformative learning and scaling deep. A shared ambition for transformative innovation towards social and ecological wellbeing sparked independent moves towards scaling deep and transformative learning which, when compared, offer fruitful insights to researchers and practitioners. The article includes a PSI lab typology and six moves to practice transformative learning and scaling deep.
