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The Fifth Space is an interagency social R&D space where social servants design and prototype new services. The British Columbia Fifth Space was a collaboration between Simon Fraser Society for Community Living, PosAbilitites, Burn... Read more

January 28, 2015 was the first day that Fifth Space Fellows got to meet each other. 28 Fellows from across the 3 agencies from frontline staff to senior managers and directors. Fellows participated in a series of activities designed to... Read more

Fellows were asked to bring in problem statements around pain points that they were experiencing or had noticed in the field. The problem statements were then clustered around user groups of person served, staff, families, and communit... Read more

Fellows reflect on their current way of working and thinking about how the next 6 months of the Fifth Space might look. They move from talking to observing through exploration via exercises adapted from Kerri Smith’s How to be an... Read more