What a delight to read David Eaves' blog about slime and social innovation...
Naturally, we at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) are honoured and delighted to be identified as part of the oozing goodness of convergence and innovation in the city.
And it isn't completely by accident. When we created the Centre we knew that we need to meet a need (reduce costs for people working to make the world a better place) but in doing so, we used a complexity inspired framework (see Brenda Zimmerman) and open source and networked thinking (see my sweet hubby Mark Surman) to create the conditions for innovation and emergence to happen. Yes there was lots of intuition but also lots of intentionality on the part of the co-creators, to bring the space to life.
So now, yes, we are having a blast building the connections, sharing ideas, challenging our way of thinking, supporting social entrepreneurs as so much more... we invite you all to come on down to check us out, have a great fair trade, organic coffee or an open saladand a great conversation.
And for the record, we would love Richard Florida to come for a visit.
Thanks for the great words of support David... you rock!!
Tonya
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