In February & March 2021, I provided co-operative training and education to both prospective members and institutional stakeholders and created a feasibility assessment for a housekeeping worker’s co-operative.
SMart model for artists in Ontario
In collaboration with an evolving group of partners including the Ontario Co-operative Association, WorkInCulture, OCAD, and ArtsPond, I have been working alongside a group of artists from divers areas of practice to develop a co-operative that relieves their admin burdens so that they may focus on refining their artistic practice.
Montreal : an Ecosystem for Platform Coops
Might Montreal become a prime ecosystem for the development of platform coops? Capitalizing on Montreal’s thriving cooperative and start-up ecosystems, this project aims to bring two sectors operating in parallel to work together to benefit the development of platforms that are truly collaborative and constitute opportunities for the city’s economic activity.
Co-designing a Platform Coop for Arts Data
In a data driven funding environment, creators must be able to measure their social & cultural impact... alongside their ticket sales. How might a platform equip them to meet these requirements more easily? Which business type best suits creators' current needs, complements the equipment currently at their disposal, and provide the adaptability to ensure it's future proof? The result of this phase : user research and strategic planning that is responsive to the reactions of our various member segments.
SMart au Québec
Might Quebec’s labor & cooperative ecosystem welcome a co-operative model such as SMart’s to answer self-employed worker’s social benefit and social protection needs? Over 2 months, I lead a high-powered series of consultations, a public awareness campaign, and completed a feasibility study that gauged ecosystem readiness, stakeholder interest and culminated in a day-long co-design session with our most important partners : self-employed people themselves.
Equipping Creators to Measure Their Impact
In a data driven funding environment, creators must be able to measure their social & cultural impact... alongside their ticket sales. How might a platform equip them to meet these requirements more easily? Which business type best suits creators' current needs, complements the equipment currently at their disposal, and provide the adaptability to ensure it's future proof? The result : containers that could hold their needs, as a foundation for the next stages of stakeholder mobilisation, design, and development.
CRHA Business Model
How might the Council of Human Ressources Professionals adapt its business model to step into - or even lead - the Future of Work? Through a series of workshops co-hosted with percolab, a group of 15 CRHA representatives designed new business models that prepared the profession & the order to play their role in the future world of work.
Making Good : A Roadmap for Worker Co-operatives in NYC
How might FPWA leverage NY City’s investment in worker co-operatives to further develop the business ecosystem through public-private partnerships? Through three webinars elevating the voice of practitioners as content experts and a day-long co-design convening introducing unions, city departments, elected officials, universities, CSOs and anchor institutions to co-op businesses, we drew the road ahead for collaborative ecosystem development. The events yielded a report containing 4 proposals for follow-up projects, to which each participant pledged participation.
Up&Go | Scaling Worker Co-operatives Through Platforms
How might CFL leverage technologies to increase worker co-operatives' impact on people's lives? How might they be pioneers in truly democratizing the sharing economy? Through design thinking workshops with members of 10 co-operatives and consultations with funders & professionals, we created a platform & web app that served the workers whose labor it amplified.