What is Shift Lab?

The Edmonton Shift Lab is an action-oriented exploration of anti-racism in our city. The Lab is a partnership between the Edmonton Community Foundation and the Skills Society Action Lab. We build on great work focussed on anti-racism in Edmonton and elsewhere. We choose to approach this through a Social Innovation lab. A Social Innovation lab allows for community-based prototyping and testing of pathways that strive to enact behavioural change. As of April 2020, we have completed two cycles of the Shift Lab — what we affectionately call Shift Lab 1.0 and 2.0. To learn more about Shift Lab 1.0 please visit edmontonshiftlab.ca for the first-year report. The Edmonton Shift Lab is based in amiskwaciwâskahikan on Treaty 6 territory, the traditional meeting grounds for the Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Dene, Nakota Sioux, Métis, and Inuit.