The Future of Labs - Cortes Island

Wicked Complex

Season 1: The Future of Labs

This episode is the second in a three part series around the Future of Labs Gathering in May 2024, where social innovation lab practitioners from around Canada came together on Cortes Island in British Columbia to try to figure out what the next 10 years of lab practice might look like.

Across these three episodes, we will be talking to folks before, during, and after the Future of Labs Gathering. This episode: Cortes Island.

We listen in as sixty-odd folks from social innovation labs, funding organizations, and Social Innovation Canada all gather at the Hollyhock Retreat on the island. They meet under cedar trees to put sticky notes on flipcharts, and they share oysters and beers on the beach together -- to see if they can agree on what labs are best at, and where their work begins and ends.

Many participants lent their voices to this episode, including Rose Hanson, Brenda Hanson, Lewis Muirhead, Meghan Durieux, Rhea Kachroo, Roya Damabi, Mark Cabaj, Geraldine Cahill, Miquel de Paladella, Ben Weinlick, Sophia Ikura, Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed and Annelies Tjebbes, Alex Ryan, Keren Perla, Aleeya Velji, Heather Remacle, Diane Roussin, Cheryl Rose, Darcy Riddell, Brent Wellsch, Rebecca McSheffery, Rebecca Rubuliak, Melanie Thomas, Sarah Lamb and Julia Dalman.

The Future of Labs Gathering is convened and sponsored by Social Innovation Canada and Action Lab. Support for this podcast series comes from the Action Lab, the Edmonton Community Foundation, the Hamilton Community Foundation, and the Oakville Community Foundation. A special thank you to Suncor Energy Foundation for supporting the Future of Labs.

Music for this episode by Blue Dot Sessions and Weinlick.