Bath City Doughnut Learning Session: Amsterdam Inspiration (Past)
How is the Doughnut being brought to life in other cities around the world? Let's look at Amsterdam for inspiration.
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We're far from the first cityfolk to be learning about Doughnut Economics and how to create fair and thriving places for happy futures. Copenhagen, Brussels, Dunedin, Leeds, London and many others all have Doughnut-inspired strategies well underway.
So to help us keep shifting from talking about things to doing things, we're on the hunt for how the Doughnut is being brought to life in other cities around the world.
As the first city to officially adopt the strategy, our next session will focus on Amsterdam.
Amsterdam has always been a fore-runner in forward-thinking initiatives - SDG House, the Repair Cafe movement, the Fashion for Good museum, the co-living concept matching students with elderly neighbours - to name just a few.
True to form, it was the first city to formally adopt the Doughnut, as the lens for its city-wide post-COVID regeneration.
Look out for pre-reading links to write-ups, articles, podcasts and videos on the LinkedIn group, and it would be great if you could share some too! If you're not already in the group, join it here: https://lnkd.in/ewGR5C6g and register for the event. If you're not on LinkedIn, just email Carra Santos at studio@carrasantos.com instead.
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Carra Santos
Bath, BANES, UK.
With over 15 years of experience at the intersection of creativity, innovation, sustainable development, and social/behavioural insight, I help people and organisations navigate seemingly disconnected perspectives, disciplines and contexts, while nurturing shared understanding, trust and alignment - strengthening how they communicate, collaborate and build. I began exploring Doughnut Economics around 2017, attending events from 2019, and becoming a DEAL community member on its launch in 2020. My interest in economics increased during my 2021 'Sustainable Development in Practice' Masters dissertation on narrative framing and communication of degrowth practices to UK business leaders, which examined the difference between degrowth, growth-agnostic and growth-led perspectives. I started the Doughnut Economics group in Bath, UK in 2022 which evolved into Collaborative Bath in 2024, which I ran in until May 2025. I continue to support it ad hoc, and a number of councils, universities and enterprises with local outreach and engagement. Email me or join me on LinkedIn.
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Ian McKay
Bath, UK
I am retired from paid employment, having had a number of careers in data analytics, then management consultancy, then a variety of leadership roles in UK-based charities. I've had a number of formal and informal roles working with charities and other for-benefit initiatives. Most notably having chaired three charities, and setting up Innovira to become a catalyst for developing and sharing good ideas and practices - though it is early days for this. I've lived in Bath, in the South West of England, for over 30 years, and now try to use my experience and time to support activists and thinkers who are trying to make a difference locally. The Doughnut model captures what I've thought intuitively for decades, and will hopefully be an effective model to help good decision making, and get stuff done.
