Ashwini (Ash) is a Principal Social Innovator and works on designing better social policies, strategies, services and products. Working from an ecological paradigm that’s guided by living systems principles, Ash’s practice moves through knowledge domains like systems and complexity theory, regenerative design and development, social design, service design, sociology, information technology, and social entrepreneurship.
At TACSI, he plays a key role in shaping TACSI’s social innovation philosophy and practice and translating them to viable and vital offers to community, government, commercial, non-profit and philanthropic organisations. He has a particular interest in evolving TACSI’s ways of being, practices, methods and tools to be in harmony with the principle of Foregrounding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wisdom and ways. He also takes special interest in social innovation’s role in the context of humanitarian aid and development practice globally.
Ash is currently focused on designing enabling conditions that better support place focused integrated health service experiences through Australia’s primary health ecosystems, among others. You can find Ash practicing his craft at the intersections of complex social (policy) systmes like child protection and care, family domestic and sexual violence, mental health, suicide prevention, alcohol and other drugs, disability, and place-sources community development.
Outside of work, Ash’s hobbies include studying the mythologies and cosmologies of the world, supporting the growing Regenerative Design and Development Community in and around Australia, and sharing his love for South Indian cuisine with anyone who’s curious.
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