IKEA Foundation and Laudes Foundation

Key Focus Areas
Climate change innovation
Complex systems innovation and transformation
Sensemaking and adaptive learning
Sophoi Services
Real-time results reporting, sensemaking and learning

IKEA Foundation and Laudes Foundation

2021–2023 Results, Sensemaking and Learning system for the Building Life Initiative

Sophoi is leading a team designing a ‘cutting-edge’ Results Sensemaking and Learning (RSL) system for the BuildingLife Initiative.

The purpose of the RSL system is to enable the BuildingLife initiative to learn how best to adapt to take smarter, more effective action in complex and dynamic contexts – enabling faster, more evidence-based decarbonization of the built environment. Sophoi’s approach to RSL represents an innovative evolution of more ‘traditional’ forms of MEL – RSL combines real-time and robust evidence with the collaborative and facilitated exchange of stakeholder experience and expertise in order to ‘sensemake’ for adaptive management and wider new knowledge.

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