I support social impact organisations to co-create services, products and strategies that better serve the needs of their communities. I do this through capability building, mentoring and leading design and innovation projects.My superpower is helping organisations, teams and individuals articulate and define vague problems enabling them to gain clarity and momentum.I offer training and mentorship packages to build internal team capability. These are relational and catered to the unique needs of your teams, meeting you where you are and building towards where you'd like to be.Through collaborative consulting I wrap around your team to deliver impact, supporting co-design, research, strategic planning and visioning and innovation projects. I have deep experience in healthcare, aged care, community services, education, youth services, violence prevention, and social justice issues. I have collaborated with a diverse range of clients such as the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, Medibank, Red Cross, the Burnet Institute, VACCHO, Tenants Victoria, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, HESTA, OurWatch, and various universities including RMIT, Swinburne, and Monash.My approach is iterative, solutions-led and highly collaborative. I believe in building ongoing partnerships and working closely with clients, building capability and embedding in your context.
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Founder And Principal ConsultantVillage Co. Nov 2023 - PresentVictoria, AustraliaI support social impact organisations unlock the power of design and collaboration to better serve their communities.I partner with a diverse range of clients across sectors including health and mental health, youth and education, Government, justice, not-for-profits, to deliver strategy and participatory research. I offer capability building and training as well as lead co-design an innovation projects. I help clients move through a process from problem identification and framing, to collaborative solutioning and validation of ideas. I have a strong focus on creating actionable insights and recommendations and support clients to move forms strategy into implementation. -
Guest LecturerUniversity Of Melbourne Aug 2022 - PresentMelbourne, Victoria, AustraliaRegular guest lecturer for the Master of Public Policy and Management teaching introduction to design and co-design methods, tools and principles through hands on workshops.Studentw of Innovative Design and Service Delivery were introduced to the design process as a solutions based and iteratice way of learning through making. We moved through the design process end to end exploring and ideating around their policy challenge. Students of Professional Practice in Policy Research will explore the challenges of applying co-design and authentically sharing power in a policy or government setting, -
Principal Strategic DesignerPaper Giant Nov 2022 - Nov 2023Melbourne, Victoria, Australia -
Design Research Lead, Facilitator And Strategic DesignerBurnet Institute Jan 2022 - Nov 2022Melbourne, Victoria, Australia -
Innovation And Strategic Design LeadToday (Formerly Thick) Jul 2017 - Jan 2022Melbourne, AustraliaToday is a strategic design agency that uses design and technology to make better policy, bring products to life, design vivid futures, engage with diverse communities and design end-to-end service experiences.As Innovation Lead, I take a human-centered approach to technology. This means understanding and sharing the technological and social trends shaping our future and co-designing with people with lived experience. I run regular trends and signals forecasting sessions, and imagine speculative futures with our clients and their users. But, it’s not all navel-gazing contemplations of possible utopias, I also lead large UX and design projects and deliver polished products that people fall in love with. -
Research And Development Design LeadAkqa Jul 2016 - Jul 2017MelbourneI was a founding member of the AKQA Research and Development team. A small but mighty skunkworks team inside our agency with a mission to explore industry challenges, emerging technologies and social and environmental issues. A rogue unit lighting fires under our traditionally cautious clients. Working in rapid three-week sprints, we imagined futures with emerging technology. Delivering working prototypes and radical ideas we generated a new stream of revenue for the agency and attracted a new caliber of client.As Design Lead, I saw projects through from creative ideation to execution and documentation. I presented and edited the documentary videos that accompanied many of our sprints, explaining our process and the technologies used. Working in the R&D team taught me to quickly ideate, test, prototype and document – a process I have continued to hone in my current role. -
Senior Experience Designer, CreativeDt Dec 2012 - Jul 2016Melbourne Area, AustraliaDT was a creative technology agency before being acquired by AKQA in 2016. At DT I cut my teeth as a designer, moving quickly up the ranks and leading a wide range of projects. Sitting in between the creative, strategy and design teams I was the guy people called when they didn’t know who to give a project to. I designed apps, games, installations, websites – whatever best told the story and delivered on the creative strategy. I wore many hats at DT doing user research, creative ideation, illustration, design, 3D modeling and animation. This gave me all the skills I needed to kickstart the agency’s Research and Development team with our creative director and creative technologist. -
Freelance Graphic And Motion DesignerCallan Rowe Design For Screen Jul 2011 - Dec 2012Melbourne, AustraliaBefore refocusing on design and technology I spent a number of years working in the film industry as a freelance editor and director. Working on corporate and music videos sharpened my storytelling chops and taught me how to hustle. Narrative design and storytelling is a hugely important skill that not enough designers develop. Being able to boil an idea down to its most simple and compelling form is at the core of all design and a passion of mine.
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Freelance Video Editing And DesignStreamline Media 2009 - 2011Melbourne, AustraliaWorked on numerous film and design projects in a freelance capacity. My main responsibilities were the creation of motion graphics and editing for corporate promotional videos. I also created motion graphic elements for projections at awards ceremonies and presentations.
Callan Rowe Education Details
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Film And Television
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Callan Rowe works for Village Co.
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Callan Rowe's current role is Co-design and innovation for social impact.
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Callan Rowe attended Swinburne University Of Technology, Rmit, Swinburne University Of Technology.
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