Social innovation is doing something different with what we know for the benefit of our society.
Design is a process of seeing and creating those different things.
Systems thinking is a means of contemplating the potential impact of our designs and what purposeful and unintended consequences and benefits might emerge from our intervention.
Evaluation is a systematic and often participatory process of gathering and distributing feedback to support all three of these.
Sense-making is when we mindfully devote ourselves to understanding what the meaning of all of this to the contexts of our work and lives.
….These are the domains in which CENSE Research + Design operates.
We offer services that support organizations in making sense of and working with complexity as it relates to the public’s health and wellbeing. Founded by Dr. Cameron Norman, CENSE Research + Design brings expertise in health behaviour change, systems science, design thinking, and psychology to bear on human services programming and health promotion. Since 2005, CENSE Research + Design has provided strategic advice, training, evaluation and research support and to clients in government, non-profit, healthcare, and social service sectors.
We work with our clients to design strategies for innovation generation and evaluation, identity development and communication, social media, public engagement, program strategy development and foresight.
CENSE Research + Design helps you deliver stronger, more engaging, innovative programs that enhance your resilience and create positive social impact.
We connect your mission, values and assets together with new ideas and innovative strategies for collaboration and insight generation to reveal new possibilities for how you can achieve your fullest health promoting potential.
Using a process informed by design thinking, systems science, and behavioural psychology, we work with our clients to create strategies to make them stronger and more effective at what they do and to enable them make sense of the rapidly changing environment around them to better plan for the future.
We bring more than 20 years of experience in research, education, and health system practice with expertise in research methods and evaluation, program design, visual communication, social media and knowledge translation.
We help realize the potential of programs, organizations and their people to realize new opportunities in the face of increasingly complexity and ongoing change.
Contact:
CENSE Research + Design
757-155 Dalhousie Street
The Merchandise Building
Toronto, ON M5B2P7 Canada
Email: info@cense.ca
Phone: +1.416.854.3805 (Toronto area) or +1.877.759.9905 (Toll free)
Twitter: @CENSEResearch