What we love
Being a naturally inquisitive team of people means we love ideas, innovation, and insight. This deep curiosity is what gave us our name and means we’re restless collectors, and curators, of beautiful ideas from anywhere we find them: sometimes for their power to change systems; sometimes for their value to the organisations we work with; sometimes just because they are beautiful, never mind if we’ve figured out how to use them yet.
This is the space to share our enthusiasm and hope you might find something to love as much as we do…
Curious Systems episode 1: housing
Even Lara’s Nan says ‘the system is broken’, but what does that actually mean? You’re invited to a conversation to find out
The Story of Systems: chapter III
How do you see the system you want to change ?
The Story of Systems: chapter II
Are you a linear thinker, or a systems thinker? How do you know?
The Story of Systems: chapter I
Hands up if you’ve been to a meeting about systems where the coffee is served with jargon shortbread, and it’s word salad for lunch?
The Room Where It Happens
Governance comes in myriad flavours. We prefer full-bodied, and spicy.
Don’t Touch! Lexical Electric Fence!
Curious thing, language…
Who’s in debt to whom?
Maybe society shouldn’t be increasingly in debt to investors? Maybe investors should be in debt to society?
The Resilience Paradox
What makes an organisation more resilient?
Dear Social Enterprise…
When the economy married civil society at the turn of the millennium, it was love across the divide and we were all invited to the reception…
Putting your cards on the table
We love a good game at the The Curiosity Society. A deck of cards is never far away, but not always the kind you’d think of…
Do we have Copernicus Syndrome?
Where you choose to stand can profoundly influence your understanding of the world around you…
Evaluation is dead. Viva evaluation!
In the good old days of a stable, predictable world (no, us neither!), evaluation was the thing that you did towards the end of a project…
Are we the robots? Finding human connection in a digital world
There is a lot of dystopian fiction that imagines a future where artificial intelligence enslaves or erases humanity…
The best things come in… fours?
Sailing a little close to confirmation bias, this lovely description of the four voices of collective impact caught our eye…