We’ve been lucky to share ideas around innovation with incredible teams lately—and we want to pass along the *aha moments* that stuck with us. For Bausch + Lomb we helped them rethink “Late Adoption” with a keynote conversation on inclusive innovation, which included a big reframe.

“What if ‘late adopters’ aren’t resistant but the canaries in the coal mine for flawed innovation?”

Skeptics often spot gaps in accessibility, ethics, or sustainability long before others. How could listening to skeptics improve your next project?

We also looked to the Reconstruction era as a nod to Black History month to talk about ownership, innovation and power.

With the culture team at  Gersh, we explored systems of imagination and belonging. 

“What if what we’re designed not to imagine is just as important as what we do imagine?”

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Next we are excited to be debuting System Shifters at the Social Impact Supper Club’s Unconference! 🌪

This isn’t your normal game night card game. Players collaborate to design ethical businesses, fend off systemic threats (cough billionaire-controlled algorithms cough), and reimagine capitalism through creativity.

‍Why games? Play disarms us, making it easier to try on and prototype new ideas and new ways of thinking. 

Lastly, we’re thrilled to welcome Theon Freeman—artist, facilitator, and our new Community Innovator —to the team!  

With 15+ years of crafting events for folks like the White House, MTV, Spotify, and Voto Latino (plus intimate healing spaces for BIPOC men), Theon brings a mix of large-scale vision and human-centeredness into his work.

Theon will be helping OPENHOUSE  build a home for what’s next—a place where virtual and in-person worlds collide to create spaces that support you as a founder. We’re mixing research and skill-sharing into the kind of gatherings where you might accidentally solve a business problem over a card game. 

Email hi@ouropenhouse.co for events you would like to see out there in the world.

Don't forget to checkout this month’s issue of Housenotes (🔗 sign up here for a newsletter that builds with you), we share highlights from attending a town hall hosted by the  Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City and how they are organizing for this moment. 

Next, we highlighted tools to reclaim your digital autonomy: open-source platforms, privacy-first apps, and even the revival of pen-pal networks as acts of resistance against harmful tech. We also share ways to join movements fighting for an internet that serves people, not corporations.

Finally, we turn to solidarity in action—resources for standing with immigrants as they face not only increased harmful rhetoric but a wave of deportations, from starting a neighborhood watch group to knowing their rights.