Adjacency Methodology

Typically when a consultant talks about their methodology, they describe what a client can pay them to do. But in our case, it’s much more appropriate to describe how we think.

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Jonathan Pool
Why The Adjacency Exists

Together we wondered whether working collectively might expand the limits of our individual capabilities to achieve breakthrough solutions. And so we took the final step, coalescing into a core group of leaders keen on creating a shared future for our communities. The Adjacency is the result.

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Jonathan Pool
The Moral Determinants of Health

“What it comes down to is that if we care about health we have to care about each other; if we care about each other that’s got to be reflected in our social policies; and if it’s not reflected in our social policies, our moral compass says it has to be … and I think that’s on us.”

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Mark VanderKlipp
Design for Challenging Conversations

As a human-centered research technique, a Data Walk process allows us to better understand how members of communities view the data, often questioning the implicit bias that the “experts” bring to their review, seeing only what they want to see in the data.

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Mark VanderKlipp
No Better Time for Human-Centered Design

Opening our aperture to accept new mindsets is imperative for the success of our collective future. There is truly no time like the present to engage in conversations using this design methodology; working together, we can boldly begin to bring about the changes we wish to see in our world.

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Mark VanderKlipp