Ux Australia Audio (from 2015)

UXAUS2019 Day 1 Bite-sized activism for STREAT! Helping reduce our environmental footprint collectively How do you massage small, discrete chunks of volunteer time into a program that creates something bigger than the sum parts? That’s the question we asked ourselves when we set up a Human Centred Design (HCD) community volunteer framework to support STREAT’s Planet Plan knowing that many people want to volunteer time to something that serves a higher purpose but has limited time available to commit. STREAT is a hospitality-based social enterprise that provides supported vocational training and holistic personal support to young people aged 16-24 who really need a hand. While we are working on maximising our social footprint we’re also working hard to minimise our environmental footprint as part of an ambitious Planet Plan! In this talk, we’ll share our “bite sized” volunteer framework and how we’ve been applying it to formalise a Planet Plan and for the first time to help solve a challenge: How to recycl