The document discusses the need for innovation in development sectors through new design principles, interfaces, and imagination to prevent decline and adapt to changes. It emphasizes the importance of involving diverse perspectives, particularly those from marginalized communities, rather than relying solely on conventional expertise. The text highlights various innovative methods and environments, such as hackathons and innovation labs, to foster creativity and adapt to new challenges.

1. @gquaggiotto
The era of development
mutants?
(Photo:Reuters)

2. “If the rate of change on the
outside exceeds the rate of change
on the inside, the end is near.”
- Jack Welch

4. Welcome to Flatland
Source: Valve Employee Handbook

8. Source:@LeadbeaterCH

9. Source:@LeadbeaterCH

10. Innovation to prevent
decline
Innovation to sustain the old in
new, remade form
Innovation in new niches
Creating the new normal
Source:@LeadbeaterCH

11. A development sector stress test
Source: ODI, Horizon 2025

12. Embracing mutants & hybrids

13. 1. New design principles
2. New interfaces
3. New imagination

14. New design principles
• Mapping assets, not needs
• Multiple parallel experiments

15. Where does project design start?

16. “By experts in poverty I do not mean
sociologists, but poor men”
– G. K. Chesterton

21. The community mirror

22. The curse of linear planning

23. Multiple parallel experiments

26. 1. New design principles
2. New interfaces
3. New imagination

27. • You don’t know where the “smart people” are
• You don’t know how good these people are
• Most of them will never want to work for
you because they find your organization:
a) too boring
b) too callous
c) too unrewarding or
d) too irrelevant (or a combination of all of the above!)
The non-contractibles
Source: Carliss Baldwin

28. A growing list
• Hackathons
• Innovation Labs
• Social innovation camps
• Challenges
• Pre-commercial procurement
• FabLabs
• GovJams
• Timebanks

33. Big data collaboratoria

34. 1. New design principles
2. New interfaces
3. New imagination

35. Investing in the [in]plausible

36. Takramdesignengineering

37. http://senseable.mit.edu/local-warming/
Local warming

38. http://diytoolkit.org/

39. The subtraction game
1. The meeting room
2. Needs assessment
3. The Ideal State
4. Capacity building
5. The log frame
6. The Project
7. The donor
8. National boundaries

40. 1. New design principles
2. New interfaces
3. New imagination

41. @gquaggiotto
Let’s embrace the mutants