We're pleased to offer a regular, faciltated conversation about designing transitions.

Each conversation, we spend some time connecting with one another and sharing some stories from the field. Then we invite a group conversation around a question or theme. 

For the last two years, we (Kirsten and Jon) have been developing our understanding and practice of Ontological design with the desire to expand our own practice. This has allowed us to challenge the foundations of modern design, and generate possibilities to achieve more than improving products and services.

This conversation invites you to engage in a conversation for learning that stretches your awareness and understanding of what it means to be a designer, while deepening a shared understanding of an extended design discourse. It will be of interest for those who have significant professional experience in design such as service design, human centred design, codesign, research etc. 

About Us

Jon Osborne

Jon Osborne is a designer, facilitator and coach who works in organisational transformation. Having taught and applied design in a series of global organisations, his practice focuses on using ontological design to produce leadership capable of generating and sustaining long-term change. He loves music and lives in Wurundjeri country near the big smoke, which reminds him of where he grew up in East London.

Kirsten Moegerlein

Kirsten Moegerlein is a designer, maker, facilitator and researcher whose practice focuses on the design and the creation of experimental social spaces. She was responsible for running the Weekly Service for 5 years and has a PhD in Design focusing on transitions. She lives and works in Wurundjeri country upstream in the hills of Warrandyte.