Learning Ecology

Dedicated to catalysing social change in Switzerland, collaboratio helvetica designs and runs prototypes and experiments in order to find ways to achieve this goal, and the learnings from these activities are frequently the most valuable outcome of the projects. Social change work means focusing on notoriously complex, systemic issues, with no quick fixes in sight. Failing is just as much part of the work as success. This is why placing learning into the heart of our activities is essential to our work.

Combining what usually would be called ‘Measurement and Evaluation’, ‘Knowledge Management’ and ‘Research and Development’, our learning ecology framework is designed to enable every team: 

  • to build on what we had previously learned when designing new projects

  • To define the key points of investigation 

  • To trace the indicators to track how plans translate into reality

  • to identify new, unplanned, emerging outcomes

  • To distil the learnings into new, actionable knowledge for new iterations