Social Innovation through an Indigenous lens - Rockhampton

Everyone wants to create a better world – and in Australia, First Nation's people have been doing it for 65,000 years.

So how can we learn from Indigenous history to tackle some of humanity’s biggest issues?

CQUniversity's workshop series “Social Innovation Through an Indigenous Lens” celebrates Australia’s pre-colonial history of creative communities, and innovative solutions.   

Across March 2020, CQUniversity staff, students and stakeholders are invited to attend workshop sessions in Brisbane, Mackay, Melbourne, Rockhampton, & Townsville offered free thanks to a Working Across Differences Fund grant from global social change network Ashoka U.

Co-presented by Bundjalung man and CQUniversity student Leslie Lowe, alongside Office of Social Innovation program manager Ashley Clarke, the four-hour sessions will recognise and appreciate Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, while inviting participants to use these knowledge systems to tackle a pressing social issue.   

Participants will explore how an Indigenous mindset could address wicked problems facing the modern world, and how they can help drive community understanding of Indigenous social innovations.