For Purpose Lunch & Learn
Cultivating the conditions for co-design to create meaningful impact
When: 12-1pm, 15 August 2025
Where: online
About this event
Organisations are increasingly adopting co-design to tackle complex challenges and include otherwise excluded voices in meaningful ways. For public and community organisations, this can transform relationships and lead to more sustainable outcomes. Building these capabilities requires cultural change, leadership commitment, and systems that support collaboration. What does it take to truly build the skills and conditions to create the changes the world needs?
What to expect
Drawing on years of experience in project leadership, capability building and evaluation across public purpose sectors, Emma Blomkamp (New Know How) will share practical insights about what works, what doesn't, and how organisations can cultivate the conditions needed for co-design to flourish and create meaningful impact. This will be a participatory session, where you will have options to interact and share your experience with others.
About Emma
Born and raised in Aotearoa, Emma has worked in the Pacific, Europe and Asia. From her home base in the hills of Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne, Australia), Emma focuses on supporting designers, researchers, public servants and other changemakers to co-create more compassionate and equitable policies, services and programmes.
For more than a decade, Emma led award-winning strategic design and social innovation projects with public purpose organisations, following prior experience in language teaching, film production and cultural governance. An Honorary Fellow at The University of Melbourne, she has a PhD in community wellbeing and local government, and a co-edited book on the politics of cultural measurement.
About New Know How
New Know How provides training, coaching, mentoring and learning partnerships for individuals and organisations. They create safe and engaging spaces for professional development. New Know How learning programs and resources are informed by extensive experience in co-design facilitation, capability building, and community-engaged practice.
Connect with Emma:
LinkedInhttps://www.newknow.how/
