Designing change, together

There’s this strange thing that happens in Australia every June – it’s called the ‘End of Financial Year’ (aka EOFY). It’s an odd time where companies and government agencies alike are trying to spend as much money as possible to justify their budget requests for the next financial year and reduce their tax liability. What it means […]

About two years ago, we had the opportunity to do an amazing research project into something that affects nearly everyone at some point in their lives. The project was called ‘The Death of a Loved One’. It aimed to map the experience of dealing with death in Australia, and for a good reason: to make […]

Two of our primary goals at Paper Giant are to build communities and start conversations. This week marks a year since we moved into our current studio space in Melbourne’s CBD – a beautiful, spacious and light-filled room, which we’ve filled with modular furniture and whiteboards, and which we’ve tried to make feel and behave […]

Last week we hosted five incredible speakers and a room full of inquisitive minds at our workshop ‘Diversity in the innovation ecosystem’ in partnership with Committee for Melbourne, as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week.

I’m writing this days after the UN reports that 1 million species are at risk of extinction, and that CO2 levels at the Mauna Loa observatory have reached 415ppm for the first time in history. I’m also writing this hours after the Australian public has voted in a federal election, and our re-elected prime minister is a […]