DESIGN INFLUENCE PODCAST
Season III/Episode 5: Communities, Networks and Ecosystems - Platforms for Change
Thank you, Isabelle Swiderski, for having Orange Sparkle Ball founder, Meaghan Kennedy, on the Design Influence podcast. They talked through some of the some of the work we're doing at Orange Sparkle Ball around understanding networks/communities/ecosystems and designing precision interventions based on what's happening in the network.
““What I’ve found — and this has held true in, you know, the entirety of my career — is: if you can’t get to people understanding what you’re saying and how it can solve their problem, it really doesn’t matter what you’re talking about. So my — beef might be a little too strong, but maybe not — with language like systems change and systems innovation is, it’s very academic and there’s no way when I look at that, I think: ‘Oh, I can solve my problem with systems change,‘ so there’s no cognitive attachment point for me in that language. It’s a way to talk about something that means you don’t really have to figure out how to make it actionable.””
Episode Description
Host Isabelle Swiderski sits down with Meaghan Kennedy, founder of Orange Sparkle Ball, an innovation consultancy focused on public-private partnerships to explore the role communities / networks / ecosystems can serve as a supportive framework for change.
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What if we could redesign the systems that don't work? Design Influence is about exploring how we can use business and design to reimagine the world’s constructs. In other words it’s about adventures in entrepreneurship, social innovation and capital.
