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What is a Social Innovation Lab?
Social Innovation Labs, like Lifehack, are established to tackle wicked problems – problems where the elements involved are ever moving, changing and morphing. They’re interconnected. That makes solving the problems very difficult, some would say impossible. Whilst you can’t solve the problems per se, you can make the situation better. This year we’re aiming to explain more…
10 Things You Need To Know About Lifehack in 2015
Phew! What a powerful start to the year. 2014 ended at a sprint, and after a Summer break, 2015 has resumed the same energy. We’d love you to get involved with Lifehack in 2015, and thanks to your input into our public survey we know we need to better communicate our plans so that you…
Lifehack Public Survey Results – Crowdsourcing Lifehack’s Direction In 2015
At the start of the year we began the process of crowdsourcing our direction for 2015, building on all of the work of 2014. For several weeks we had some amazing responses from you all through our public survey, as well as engaging in conversations with our friends in academia & government who are doing some of…
Lifehack Venture Updates: Live The Dream & The App Store
Designed by Freepik We’ve been working behind the scenes with a variety of projects & ventures since Lifehack Labs in September 2014, supporting the amazing young teams to get a great foundation to their work to build ventures to enhance youth wellbeing. It’s been quite a ride seeing what has emerged, the trials and tribulations the teams…
Lifehack Labs 2014 – The Documentary
We’re delighted to share the short documentary which was filmed for Lifehack Labs 2014. Learn about the young leaders from around Aotearoa who took part, what happened throughout the Lab, and get a peek behind the scenes with the Lifehack Core team. We would love to hear your thoughts and questions in the comments!
Have your say on the Lifehack 2015 Public Survey!
We want your voice! Lifehack is nothing without the amazing humans who come together offline (and online) to co-create tools and solutions to improve the wellbeing of young Kiwis. To that end, we need your input to help us make 2015 an awesome year for you. We hope you can find 5 minutes of your day to help…
Watch this space… Beast & YOMO are Living The Dream!
Good news! Our friends over at Live The Dream are cranking away through summer, supporting a bunch of awesome young Kiwis to build social enterprises! The excellent news is that the Beast & YOMO teams were both accepted and joined the program to take the social entrepreneurial nouse,…
50+ Free & Cheap Internet Tools for Designers, Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators & Startups
A list of services to help you be awesome. Check out this list of online resources which can give you jumpstarts and shortcuts to gain quick momentum for your project or social venture. Simple Website Tools: WordPress – highly customisable content management system, with themes, plugins and much more. Weebly – click & drag website builder which is…
A Week With Social Labs Revolution Author, Zaid Hassan
If you had the opportunity to spend a week with someone with 15 years of experience in your domain, what would you hope to learn? Less than a month after we wrapped up Lifehack Labs (our most multi-layered initiative to improve youth wellbeing yet) we were launched back into thinking deeply about Social Innovation and…
Hacking Life in Wellington
THE CHALLENGE Over the weekend we brought together a crack group of people who wanted to give their time and energy to 3 awesome youth causes. On Friday night we heard from our project hosts about their hopes for the weekend, where they saw their projects heading: ‘Recovery Action Plan’ – Keiran shared how these RAPs were used…
Suggest a cause for the Wellington Lifehack weekend
Following a bunch of Lifehack weekends around the country earlier this year, we’ve come to the conclusion it was about time for a turbo-charged weekend on our home turf in Wellington. Over the weekend of 8 & 9 November, we will be working on three projects that benefit, directly or indirectly, young New Zealanders. Whether…
How Lifehack Assesses Impact
Lifehack has been learning from the rapidly advancing disciplines of business, design, wellbeing, social innovation and technology and working out how we can apply this to complex problems – specifically youth wellbeing and mental health. One of the those people is Zaid Hassan, UK-based consultant and practicing social innovator who has worked with countries and…
#LifehackLabs – Introducing the Projects & Ventures!
Lifehack Labs was our deepest program to date to discover how we might enable bright Kiwi minds to improve the wellbeing of other young Kiwis through technology. It took the shape of a 5 week social innovation bootcamp which brought together 20 young people, and mashed up the worlds of design, social innovation, entrepreneurship, wellbeing…
Meet The Author of ‘Social Labs Revolution’!
Do you want to meet the Author of a book which helped inspire Lifehack Labs? Check out the events in October Tweet about this event: Back in February, we were deep in research mode – trying to make sense of our new direction with Lifehack, and explain to people how this new approach worked. We…
#LifehackLabs – Week 5 – Sprint to Springboard
Week 5 of Lifehack Labs was all about teams building toward the future. With the final event fast approaching, the Labs teams were again set loose to choose their own paths in the final week. Whether it was conducting user interviews, developing a prototype, having deeper ‘team expectations’ discussions, writing finale event stories or launching…
