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

Looking at ethnographic research methods helped provide a framework for Fellows to create a research plan around their problem statement. Fellows needed to come up with a plan for who they were going to recruit from their user group to... Read more

Teams create ethnographic tools.       Brain Gamers creating prompt packs for supervisors and managers.         CARRA’s prompting materials for small businesses.     Spread the Love... Read more