Jun 20, 2022Ending 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 care about or a project we’ve…4 min read4 min read
May 25, 2022Diving Deeper: Learnings from AIP 2.0By: 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 Innovation7 min readSocial Innovation7 min read
May 3, 2022Integration & Iteration: Building AIP 2.0 and Preparing to TestBy: 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…7 min read7 min read
Apr 27, 2022A 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 Lab5 min readInnovation Lab5 min read
Apr 20, 2022Start Somewhere and Build on an Idea: Developing the Aging-in-Place Portal 1.0By: 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 Place6 min readAging In Place6 min read
Dec 2, 2021Catching Up with Co-Creation Garden: In My ShoesCurious 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 My Shoes”. “ In My Shoes” started as an idea created by Dana Perry and Tara Taylor during an NS GovLab event. Since then, the idea has evolved into a prototype that is focused on using arts-based methods to engage people in decolonial and anti-racism conversations.You can learn more about the idea and journey behind this prototype below!1 min read1 min read
Nov 25, 2021Eldership? 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. …Eldership2 min readEldership2 min read
Nov 23, 2021The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part IILast 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 Place5 min readAging In Place5 min read
Nov 16, 2021The Design Squiggle & The Route of Aging: Part IIn 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…Prototyping6 min readPrototyping6 min read
Nov 10, 2021Catching up With Co-Creation Garden: Aging in PlaceCurious 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 in place — connected to community. If you are interested in learning more, we are diving more deeply into the evolution of this prototype and its learnings in our blog series. You can read the first one here: https://nsgovlab.medium.com/dive-into-prototyping-34ef1413873eReport1 min readReport1 min read
