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RECIPROCA | Design for reciprocity, resilience & renewal
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RECIPROCA | Design for reciprocity, resilience & renewal
Focus areas
Capabilities
Highlights
Team
Contact
Focus areas
Capabilities
Highlights
Team
Contact

Capabilities

Leading design, learning & innovation journeys

We work with organisations and communities to guide design, learning and innovation towards a thriving future, developing strategies for aligned action, and establishing teams, programs and approaches to deliver.

Activities include developing strategies and plans; design, innovation and learning models; theories of change; working with leadership teams; agile and adaptive project management.

Making sense of complex systems & futures

We gather evidence and insights from across complex systems to understand context, dynamics and emerging futures – drawing on lived experience, research and best practice to identify opportunities for positive change.

Activities include exploratory research; literature and policy review; systems mapping, futures & foresight; insights development and communication; framing challenges and opportunities.

Defining and collaborating towards shared futures

We bring together the right mix of people to explore challenges and opportunities collaboratively, guiding groups to imagine and align on bold futures and define pathways of action to get there together.

Activities include design and facilitation of collaborative process; leading workshops and retreats; convening spaces of dialogue, deliberation and decision-making.

Designing & testing programs for impact

We design, test and evolve high-impact programs, with a focus on collaborative production with stakeholders, experimentation and continuous learning to ensure programs are fit for purpose.

Activities include co-design and other participatory methods; program, service and experience design; prototyping and piloting; measurement, evaluation and learning.

Building capacity, ventures & movements

We build capacity within organisations and communities to influence and lead change over the long-term, though learning approaches, organising models, community-building, storytelling and community activation.

Activities include training; learning design; business and organising models; storytelling for systems change; movement building and community activation.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Towards systems
change in Tasmania

Material Institute, a non-profit organisation in Tasmania working on equitable education and community resilience, engaged Reciproca to support strategic planning through the development of a theory of change. The aim was to gather insights from current and emerging programs, align on a compelling narrative and logic of change, and support adaptive planning into the future.

Our approach

We began by gathering insights and stories from across the organisation through interviews and surveys, to reflect the variety of people, programs, and perspectives at play. We then led a group of organisational leaders through a strategic design workshop, to make sense of context and key insights, and co-create key elements of the organisation’s theory of change. We then developed a clear, visual tool to articulate the theory of change, designed to support both alignment and adaptability – including vision, mission, focus areas, key outcomes over time, core organisational functions and enablers of change.

The results

  1. A shared Theory of Change grounded in community insights.

  2. Stronger strategic clarity and alignment across programs and people.

  3. A practical tool to guide planning, communication, and future decisions.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Building drought
resilient communities

The Tasmanian Government’s Department of Premier and Cabinet engaged Reciproca to develop an evidence-based, community-informed drought resilience plan for Northern Tasmania –  to guide decision-making, investment, and community action in the coming years towards greater regional resilience to drought and climate variability.

Our approach

We started by bringing together insights from the community, policy analysis, and climate data to ground the plan in lived experience and the best available evidence. Through a participatory design process, we then worked closely with regional stakeholders to develop and refine the plan’s content, ensuring it reflected local priorities, resources and activities. The resulting plan has been peer reviewed and endorsed by CSIRO, and provides an accessible and practical guide for regional stakeholders to collaborate on, implement, monitor and improve on high-impact drought resilience initiatives.

The results

  1. A community-informed, evidence-based plan for drought resilience.

  2. Strong regional alignment around shared priorities and future goals.

  3. A practical guide to support action, investment, governance and learning.

Team

Directors Dave Kaldor and Kim Shore each bring over a decade of experience delivering strategic and transformative projects for governments, organisations and communities locally and internationally – with a focus on climate transitions, community resilience, humanitarian aid, sustainable development and education.

Kim Shore

Kim is a systemic designer, researcher and educator working with partners to understand complex systems, design cultures of learning, and steward people towards preferred futures.

Kim brings diverse experience working across law and policy, public sector innovation, learning design and education, and business model design and strategy. Previous work includes leading systems innovation projects across energy and food systems; designing and facilitating learning programs for schools and organisations; and conducting legal practice and legal innovation for startups and community legal centres. 

​​Key strengths include relating to a diverse range of people, synthesising and translating diverse knowledge types, facilitating teams through complexity, and balancing critical thinking with imagination. His practice is built on robust foundations of training, including a Bachelor of economics, Juris Doctor law degree, and Master of Design Futures.

Kim is also an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Futures; Director on a philanthropic foundation; and Learning Associate at the Woodleigh Institute.

David Kaldor

Dave is a systemic designer, social innovator and creative working with communities and organisations to imagine, experiment with and build more equitable and vibrant systems.

Dave brings significant experience working across sustainable development, humanitarian aid, and public sector innovation to design and deliver complex change projects – including strengthening urban climate transitions through direct democracy in Tasmania, innovating out of crisis with earthquake-affected communities in Nepal, and transforming education platforms with First Nations young people.

His approach blends systems thinking to make sense of complexity in the world, participatory process to facilitate powerful collaborations, and a creative production skillset and maker ethos to bring new experiments, programs, and ventures to life.

Dave bridges between systems and sectors, connecting the fast-paced energy of startups, the self-organising of grassroots initiatives and the stabilising forces of institutions. He is inspired by our capacity to come together, play, and create new possibilities for our collective futures.

Let’s explore…

Got a complex challenge, a bold idea, or a transition project taking shape? Let’s explore it together.

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Design for reciprocity, resilience & renewal

Hobart / nipaluna office
Level 5 / 24 Davey St,
Hobart TAS 7000

Reciproca acknowledges the enduring connection of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people to the lands, waters, and cultures of lutruwita / Tasmania, where we live and work. We honour their continuing sovereignty and role in shaping systems of care that sustain the interdependence of people and place.