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An innovation lab that rethinks violence prevention

Traditional funding models ask for guaranteed results. But what if the most effective approaches to preventing violence against women havent been tried yet? 

 

Christine Gregory heads up the Our Watch Innovation Lab, which is backing community organisations to experiment, fail, learn, and discover what actually creates change. She shares why this matters—and how partnership will be the key to ending violence against women within a generation.  READ

GoodDesignTeamofTheYear

Today is Good Design Australias Design Team of the Year. This marks our 45th Good Design Award—recognising consistent design excellence in service of meaningful outcomes.  READ

Bright signals

30 minutes. 3 rooms. One truth about youth justice.

Contained is an immersive art installation that focuses on empowering young people through community-led models and innovative approaches.  LEARN

The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?  READ

Back to school

Young people in classrooms need a completely different toolset than the generations before them. Here’s a handful of stories on all things from the social media ban to tech hype and hysteria.  READ

Ryan’s top 5 links

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Masahiro Sakurai, a Nintendo employee and creator of Kirby and Super Smash Bros., shares knowledge on everything from game concepting and marketing advice to programming know-how and UI design skills, to work ethic. It’s a fantastic resource for anybody, in a really cute and accessible format.  WATCH

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Sebastian Lague shares his “Coding Adventures” as—in my opinion—the best storyteller and visualiser in the programming space.  WATCH

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Standardise your use of AI APIs through Vercels brilliant AI SDK.  EXPLORE

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This is a cute write-up on Object-Oriented Programming, a programming paradigm I feel has a lot of value for people even outside the programming space.  READ

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A useful article on what a Product-Minded Engineer is and how to be one.  READ

Community news

What if learning spaces were designed for everyone?

Melbourne University’s 2025 Symposium: Designing Learning Spaces for Neurodiversity and Disability brings together educators, designers, researchers, and people with lived experience to ask: how can classrooms and campuses truly include everyone?  REGISTER

Innovation and impact grants challenge

How might we support men and boys to build respectful, positive and gender-equal relationships and reject rigid and restrictive stereotypes of what it means to be a man? Our Watch is accepting innovative proposals for up to $200,000 in grant funding.  APPLY

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