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.
Since 2014 MosaicLab has delivered over 40 deliberative engagement processes. 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.
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
Links
- Website: mosaiclab.com.au
- See also: newDemocracy Foundation — frequent collaborator in the Australian deliberative democracy space
See also
- Citizens' Assembly
- Deliberative Democracy
- Consensus Mapping
- DemocracyCo
- Designing Open Democracy 2020 Primer — Kimbra White from MosaicLab appeared at this DOD meetup
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MosaicLab co-founder bios: Kimbra White, Nicole Hunter, Keith Greaves. ↩