Week Twelve : Further Research on Social Innovation

Considering notions of engagement, I would suggest that at its core Paddington Exchange is an attempt to capture and perpetuate a process of social innovation. My own ideas about how this reality could be delineated are elaborated in the below diagram.

However in exploring more thoroughly these notions I uncovered The Social Innovator; an organisation which presents in extensive detail tangible suggestions and examples for facilitating this type of reality. Social innovation is considered as a process of six stages, evident in the below image. These stages from inception to impact are not necessarily sequential; there are feedback loops between them and they can be thought of as overlapping spaces with distinct cultures and skills. Engaging such a concept in relation to Paddington Exchange, I would suggest that this entity contains most predominantly the opportunity to foster stages of prompting, proposal and ideas and sustainment. The diagram below details how I would envision these manifested in both theoretical and physical forms.