If you follow our work, you’ll know that we’re trying to do monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) work a little differently. We see MEL work as an incredibly important part of the process of delivering public services, but too often it becomes a bureaucratic activity. Something people dread.
Last week, we visited the Manchester Game Centre for their annual conference, Multiplatform. This year’s theme was Rituals of Play, and we were there to present our work on designing and using games as a way of building better futures, and to host a play session of our new
At fractals, we’re passionate about using and making games to help people to understand research findings in an embodied way, and to make different kinds of conversation about complex systems possible.
For the past year, we’ve been putting together an approach that prioritises the expertise and insights of frontline workers in an evaluation and learning programme. Here’s how we’ve been doing it.