Knowledge hub

Deepen Your Practice

Resources for every stage of the journey—from curious newcomers to seasoned practitioners.

There’s no shortage of frameworks, courses, and ideas out there. But finding resources that are values-aligned, accessible, and actually useful in the work of building equitable futures? That’s a different story.

The DIA Knowledge Hub is our answer to that gap. It’s a curated, living space — part library, part learning centre, part practitioner community — where the knowledge you need is vetted, contextualized, and ready to be put to work. We’ve built it for the practitioners, partners, and community members who are doing this work every day and deserve a space that meets them there.

The Knowledge Hub is new here. We are growing it slowly and with intention—adding resources, tools, and connections that we genuinely believe in. If there’s something you think belongs here, or if you’re interested in partnering on any part of it, we’d love to hear from you.

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Free Resources

Good knowledge shouldn’t come with a price tag.

This is our open shelf. Everything here — recordings, writings, toolkits, reading lists, reflections, and lessons learned from our own practice — is free and freely shared. We believe that access to quality, values-aligned learning should not be a privilege, and this section is our commitment to that belief.

What you’ll find here
  • Recordings from past programming and events
  • Writings and reflections from the DIA team
  • Curated reading lists across key practice areas
  • Toolkits and frameworks from our project work
  • Organisational process learnings and honest reflections
Who it’s for

Anyone curious about equitable futures work — whether you’re just starting out, deepening your practice, or looking for resources to share with your team or community. No sign-up required. No strings attached.

Free Resources

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Toolkits & Templates

Frameworks you can pick up and use — right now.

We’ve spent years developing and refining materials that work in the real world. This section is where we make them available to you — downloadable, printable, and ready to bring into your design processes, workshops, and team practice.

What’s available
  • Facilitation and workshop templates
  • Design process frameworks and canvases
  • Reflection and sensemaking tools
  • Community engagement planning materials
  • Physical copies available for select items
How to use them

All toolkits are available for purchase and digital download. Physical copies are available for select materials. Every toolkit is designed to be adapted — we encourage you to make it yours and bring it into the context of your community and practice.

Toolkits & Templates

We have been developing and using these tools in our work for years. The honest truth is that cataloguing and digitizing them—in a way that makes them genuinely useful to you—takes time and intention. We are working through it.

More toolkits are coming. If there’s something specific you’re looking for in the meantime, reach out and we’ll do our best to point you in the right direction.

Essays & Reflections

Thinking out loud — together.

This is our living blog: a space for honest reflection, emerging ideas, critical analysis, and the kind of thinking that doesn’t always fit neatly into a report or a slide deck. DIA writes here regularly — and we’ve made it an open space for others to contribute too.

What lives here
  • Blog posts and field notes from DIA’s work
  • Essays and papers on equitable futures practice
  • Insights from participants and project partners
  • Practitioner perspectives from across the network
  • Critical reflections on the field — including our own
Want to contribute?

We welcome essays and reflections from practitioners, partners, researchers, and community members. If you’re doing interesting work and want to share what you’re learning, we’d love to hear from you. This space is as much yours as ours.

Essays & Reflections

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Network of Practitioners

You’re not the only one doing this work. Let us introduce you.

One of the things we’ve noticed in the social innovation space is that so many people are doing powerful, values-driven work — and they don’t know each other exist. The Practitioner Network is our attempt to change that.

What it is

A curated, growing database of individuals and organisations working in systems thinking, social innovation, foresight, design, and equitable futures. Not just people we work with — but anyone doing interesting, values-aligned work in the field. Think of it as a living directory of the ecosystem.

Why we built it

We’ve looked for something like this and it doesn’t exist — not in a way that reflects who’s actually doing this work. We want to make the field more visible, more connected, and more collaborative. Less competition. More community.

Practitioners

We are starting small and building with care. The people listed here are only the beginning—we are actively growing this network and are committed to making it a genuinely useful, values-aligned resource for the field.

Know someone who should be here? We’d love to hear about them.

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Recorded Talks

Conversations worth returning to.

Some conversations are too good to happen once. This is our archive of recorded talks — from DIA-hosted events like Elevate and Amplify, to online sessions we’ve been part of, facilitated, or commissioned from practitioners we believe in.

What’s in the archive
  • Recordings from Elevate and Amplify events
  • Online talks DIA has hosted or co-hosted
  • Sessions from conferences and convenings
  • Commissioned talks from practitioners in the network
  • Conversations we’ve been invited into and want to share
Why an archive matters

Good thinking shouldn’t disappear after an event ends. By archiving these conversations, we make them available to people who couldn’t be there, and to those who want to revisit ideas over time. This is part of how we keep knowledge alive and in circulation.

Talks

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