Co-hosted by RMIT and TACSI, the event posed the question of what the future could look like with an active Social R & D system fit for Australia’s complex social issues.Together, local and international thinkers, leaders and practitioners explored the question: “What is the R&D infrastructure that’s fit for tackling Australia’s toughest socio-economic-planetary challenges?”The event featured in-person keynotes from Sir Geoff Mulgan (author of Another World is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination and Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London) and Jason Pearson (Head of R&D, Youth Employment and Skills Strategy for the Canadian Government).Also featured were case studies from RMIT’s Health Transformation Lab and The Future Wellness Accelerator – a proposal for a new kind of R&D infrastructure developed through a conversation series about Australia’s future wellness, facilitated by TACSI.
