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Changing Social Needs and Innovative Ways to Meet Them - Dr Geoff MulganLinks: Download the podcast of the seminar Download the transcript of the seminar
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Dr Geoff Mulgan, Director of The Young Foundation, is one of the world’s leading experts on social and organisational innovation. Straight from ANZSOG, he gave a mid afternoon seminar for Grattan Institute, sharing his knowledge about social and organisational innovation, what it is and how to it can be applied in Australian cities. He discussed his current research on the changing social needs of society. In 2004 Geoff was ranked as one of the UK’s 100 leading public intellectuals. He founded and directed Demos, known as the UK’s most influential think tank. Grattan Institute is extremely fortunate to host such an insightful speaker. Following the seminar he agreed to answer five questions we put to all of our seminar presenters. What is the most interesting thing you’ve learned this week? The speed at which climate change is accelerating (though you’d be hard pressed guessing that from reading some of the Australian press). If you could do one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be? To make the accumulation of private wealth above a reasonable level socially embarrassing, so that the world’s recipients of mega-bonuses would all invest it in charitable foundations rather than in another yacht, sports car or luxury home. What has surprised you most over the last year? The speed with which government policies to reflate economies worked (though I fear we may be just as surprised by how quickly economies spin downwards again). Is there something you have changed your mind about in the past 5 or 10 years, and why? I’ve become less sanguine about the positive effects of migration, mainly because of talking to many people in communities in the UK where wages and opportunities have been kept down thanks to open borders. What one book/lecture/film/podcast have you read/watched/listened to over the last year that you’d recommend? Christopher Alexander’s massive series on architecture and design (the Nature of Order), which I only discovered last year, is at times eccentric but also extraordinarily stimulating.
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