Our Starting point
Excluded communities are the most under-valued systems thinkers and designers on the planet.
Lab OLE is the new infrastructure that will recognise and reward this expertise, through new community-led business models, data, tools and new ventures for social and economic justice.
Unseen, unheard, unserved
Excluded communities with complex needs are not just under-served by policy makers across democracy, welfare, housing, tech, finance and work, they are being left out of systems entirely.
In the health system, people are increasingly becoming “unpatients”.
And they are experiencing the consequences of exclusion throughout their bodies.
From accelerated cellular ageing, and reduced brain function to increasingly poor immune health.
Lab OLE is transforming exclusion expertise into…
Collective intelligence
Community-owned data and evidence at population scale that forces policy makers to act.
Policy change
Agenda setting, designing new systems change and sustainability mandates to mobilise business and finance, to lobby governments.
New ventures
Community-owned business models, participation tools and design labs that return economic value to the community.