Co-design with and for Communities Workshop

Co-design with and for Communities Workshop

As part of the Carnegie Community Engagement Network offerings, we invite you to take part in the workshop "Co-design with and for Communities" led by TACSI.

Join us for a 4 hours workshop, facilitated by Chris Vanstone, TACSI’s Chief Innovation Officer, and Dr Simone Mandl, Principal of Regenerative Communities, to explore in some depth TACSI’s approaches to community consultation and co-design. 

The focus will be on 1:1 and small group engagements, in both face-to-face and online modes. The approach will be underpinned by TACSI’s perspective that good consultation:

• Thrives on relationships
• Creates safe-enough and brave spaces 
• Builds on what’s known
• Strengthens what’s been started
• Tests assumptions 

TACSI will draw on their experience of working with communities often marginalised by mainstream systems to understand the current situation, surface alternatives, and test potential solutions. TACSI’s experience includes consulting with rural communities, Aboriginal communities, communities that have experienced bushfires, communities struggling with mental health, multicultural communities, younger people, and older people. 

The session will include: 

• An exploration of mindsets and practices for good consultation and co-design
• A variety of project case studies at different levels of participation 
• Takeaway frameworks and tools you can apply to your projects
• The opportunity to raise challenges you face in your own work

This session is run as part of the Carnegie Community Engagement Network offerings. If you work, study, or partner with a member institution of the network you can access this session with a discount. Please get in touch with your Carnegie representative at your University or email carnegieengagement@uts.edu.au for more information.

About TACSI

TACSI is The Australian Center for Social Innovation. They have over 12 years of hands-on experience putting social innovation into practice across systems in Australia. They are strategic partners, capability builders, consultants, connectors, and facilitators, and are passionate about partnering with people, communities, philanthropy, communities, government, NGOs, and businesses to tackle Australia’s biggest social challenges.  

If you want to learn more about them, please visit their website here. 

Contact us

If you have any questions about the session or the Carnegie Community Engagement Network, please contact carnegieengagement@uts.edu.au