Skip to content
Status: activeType: 🤝 practiceCountry: Australia Website: mosaiclab.com.au
Status active
Type 🤝 practice
Country Australia
Website mosaiclab.com.au
Contact info@mosaiclab.com.au
0422 830 650
Concepts Citizens Assembly Deliberative Democracy Consensus Mapping
Last activity 2026-07-16 dod
Site active; recent posts include Victorian Government engagement inquiry analysis and a 2025 year-end/2026 trends post covering AI integration and representativeness in deliberative practice

MosaicLab

MosaicLab is a professional practice specialising in public deliberation. It designs and runs deliberative engagement processes: citizens' juries, standing panels, deliberative polls, and citizens' assemblies for government clients across Australia.

MosaicLab has delivered over 60 full-scale deliberative processes and 500+ projects total across every Australian state and sector. They have published a comprehensive guide to facilitating public deliberations, drawing on that experience, and co-developed research on how deliberative democracy can be embedded in decision-making organisations.

Approach

MosaicLab operates at the intersection of theory and practice. They design processes for high-stakes and contested issues — cases where standard consultation would not generate meaningful input — and work with clients to ensure outputs genuinely inform decisions rather than serving as token engagement.

They are also engaged in building the evidence base for deliberation: what conditions make it work, when it is appropriate, and how to embed it as a normal part of institutional decision-making rather than a one-off experiment.

Notable processes

  • City of Melbourne 10-Year Financial Plan (2014) — MosaicLab's first citizens' jury; a participatory budgeting deliberation observed by economist Nicholas Gruen
  • VicHealth Citizens' Jury on Obesity — statewide deliberation on a complex public health issue
  • Barwon Water Community Panel (2018) — IAP2 Highly Commended; water sector deliberative engagement
  • Shape Victoria People's Panel (Victorian Government 2050 Vision) — 50 randomly selected Victorians shaping the state's long-term vision
  • TasWater Statewide Deliberative Engagement — Tasmania's first statewide deliberative engagement process, 45-member panel
  • Future Wyndham Community Panel (2024-2025) — 150 randomly selected residents; one of Australia's largest local government deliberations
  • Agriculture Victoria Biosecurity Roundtables (2019-present) — annual deliberative process, now in its 6th year
  • Mornington Peninsula Shire & City of Kingston — pioneered Australia's first standing citizens' panels
  • NWMPHN Community Panel (2025) — first use of an innovative AI tool in a deliberative process

ML Giving

MosaicLab's pro-bono arm provides each recipient project $5,000 toward costs plus approximately 4 days of professional facilitator time. Projects include Cultura (refugee women in Geelong developing business plans), Mornington Community Support Centre, Melbourne Tautoko Whanau, and a University of Canberra Social Cohesion Action Plan (2026).

Key people

  • Kimbra White, Nicole Hunter, and Keith Greaves — co-founders. All three bring backgrounds spanning community engagement, public policy, and deliberative process design. Kimbra White has presented to DOD on deliberative democracy practice.1

See also

  1. "Kimbra co-founded MosaicLab in 2013 and sees the group as a platform for continuous learning about participation." Kimbra White co-founder bio. See also Nicole Hunter and Keith Greaves bios. ↩

History