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Jun 20, 2022

Ending Things Well: When Your Project is Over (and You have Feelings About that)

By: Angela Britton “…the only lasting truth is change…” Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower, Earthseed 1) Endings can look like all types of things. An ending can be nerve wracking or scary, especially if it is something we have come to really…

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Ending Things Well: 
When Your Project is Over (and You have Feelings About that)
Ending Things Well: 
When Your Project is Over (and You have Feelings About that)

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May 25, 2022

Diving Deeper: Learnings from AIP 2.0

By: Rayna Preston Today we wanted to share our last blog post in our Aging in Place prototyping series. While we hope this prototype’s journey may continue in its many possible forms, the Lab’s involvement in this chapter of the journey has come to an end. NS GovLab has always…

Social Innovation

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Social Innovation

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May 3, 2022

Integration & Iteration: Building AIP 2.0 and Preparing to Test

By: Rayna Preston & Jenna Andrews Over the past few months, we’ve been sharing our journey of building a prototype that explores aging-in-place and connection to community. In our blog, The Power of Design Challenge Questions: 3 Tips for Setting Your innovation intention we shared how this topic area became…

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Integration & Iteration: Building AIP 2.0 and Preparing to Test
Integration & Iteration: Building AIP 2.0 and Preparing to Test

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Apr 27, 2022

A New Season for NS GovLab — We’ve Moved!

By: Rayna Preston As I write this, the season is changing before my eyes; the days have grown longer, sunnier and warmer here in Halifax. The rains are falling, the trees and gardens are budding and the animal world around us has awakened this past week. The peepers have started…

Innovation Lab

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A New Season for NS GovLab — We’ve Moved!
A New Season for NS GovLab — We’ve Moved!
Innovation Lab

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Apr 20, 2022

Start Somewhere and Build on an Idea: Developing the Aging-in-Place Portal 1.0

By: Jenna Andrews & Rayna Preston For the past little while, we’ve been sharing the journey, along with its twists, turns and learnings of building a prototype rooted in the question of “How might we?” Throughout this series, we have been exploring the complexities and multiple components that are inevitably…

Aging In Place

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Start Somewhere and Build on an Idea: Developing the Aging-in-Place Portal 1.0
Start Somewhere and Build on an Idea: Developing the Aging-in-Place Portal 1.0
Aging In Place

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Dec 2, 2021

Catching Up with Co-Creation Garden: In My Shoes

Curious about what’s been happening at NS GovLab? Join us in our Co-Creation Garden series to learn more about what seeds we’ve been planting and the learnings we’ve been harvesting along the way. This week in Episode 2, we are sharing what we’ve been exploring around a prototype called “In…

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Nov 25, 2021

Eldership? What is it anyway?

This year for our contribution to Seniors Week, we wanted to honour seniors who are (and have been for a long time) change-makers. We also had a curiosity about what eldership means to Nova Scotians. While we recognize and know that there is not one sole definition of eldership, we…

Eldership

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Eldership

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Nov 23, 2021

The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part II

Last week, as part of our blog series exploring the story of prototyping aging in place, we took you back and shared a bit about The Route of Aging team’s journey. Today we want to continue on that journey. When we last left off, we had explored how the Route…

Aging In Place

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The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part II
The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part II
Aging In Place

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Nov 16, 2021

The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part I

In our last few posts, we gave you a little peek into what we’ve been up to over the past couple months with our aging in place prototype. We started with some of our most recent changes to the Aging in Place portal in our blog Dive into Prototyping: AIP…

Prototyping

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The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part I
The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part I
Prototyping

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Nov 10, 2021

Catching up With Co-Creation Garden: Aging in Place

Curious about what’s been happening at NS GovLab? Join us in our Co-Creation Garden series to learn more about what seeds we’ve been planting and the learnings we’ve been harvesting along the way. This week in Episode 1, we are sharing what we’ve been exploring around the concept of aging…

Report

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Report

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