Portable
Our mission is to seek out areas of social need and policy failure and make transformational change using research, design and technology.
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We believe that government, organisations and businesses can be forces for good. But there's a gap in their understanding of, and ability to meet, the expectations of those in need of positive change. Our job is to use design and technology to narrow that gap between those with the power and responsibility to make positive change, and those who need it.
We care about these big issues, among many others, and we work with partners to get there across Australia and the region. But often we find ourself in situations where there are opportunities to respond directly to issues we uncover. We do this by self initiating our own research and development to explore and respond to these issues. Some of these areas over the past decade include:
Mental health: we work with organisations like Orygen and Headspace to enhance delivery of youth mental health services.
Education: we're on a mission to unlearn school and have worked with Australia's biggest education department to bring human-centred design to public schooling.
Access to justice: our 10-year journey to redesign access to justice includes pioneering work in online dispute resolution and family violence.
Death and ageing: ageing and death are in need of optimism, and we believe that systems thinking and human-centred design can be a force for good — so we wrote a report about it.
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Begin your journey towards creating more impactful outcomes for your clients, colleagues, and the people you support with Portable’s human-centred design and ethical co-design foundations training workshop.
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Learn more about Andrew, presenting at Purpose.
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