Start a Social Lab Project

Bring people who see different parts of a complex challenge into an ongoing process of sensemaking, experimentation, and learning.

Your Pathway

1. Frame → 2. Connect Labs → 3. Map → 4. Convene → 5. Sensemake → 6. Imagine → 7. Experiment → 8. Learn → 9. Scale What Merits Scaling

1. Frame

Develop an initial challenge statement without locking participants into a predetermined intervention.

2. Connect Labs

Identify which ASG Labs could contribute useful perspectives.

For example:

Urban food insecurity

Zero Hunger Lab

• City Futures Lab

• Financial Inclusion Lab

• AI for Governance Lab

Coastal climate livelihoods

Blue Economy Lab

• Climate Action Labs

• Social Finance Lab

3. Map

Develop an initial picture of:

• stakeholders

• institutions

• relationships

• resources

• incentives

• policies

• power

• uncertainties

4. Convene

Bring together people who see genuinely different parts of the system.

5. Sensemake

Explore competing interpretations.

Do not force premature consensus.

6. Imagine

Generate multiple possibilities rather than immediately selecting one intervention.

7. Experiment

Move promising possibilities into:

Start a Design Project →

Start Research →

Start a Project →

Start a Fellowship →

8. Learn

Bring evidence from experiments back into the Lab.

Sense → Explore → Experiment → Learn → Reframe

9. Scale What Merits Scaling

Not every successful experiment should scale.

Ask:

• What evidence supports expansion?

• What is essential to preserve?

• What depends on local context?

• Who could own it?

• What capabilities are required?

• How could expansion be financed?

• What could be lost through rapid scaling?

When these become the central questions:

Enter ScaleUp Lab →