New tool launch: 'What is a Doughnut Portrait?'

What is a Doughnut Portrait? A Doughnut Portrait is looking through these four lenses, at our place and community, and making visible what we find, in a wide diversity of ways, so that we can take action towards the future we want. A future with everyone living well within planetary boundaries.

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About this session

This is the launch of DEAL's new tool What is a Doughnut Portrait? A tool to help you start planning your own Doughnut Portrait for your place and your community. The tool contains over 25 Doughnut Portraits case studies and is made up of different elements that you can mix and match to suit your local needs, including preparation elements and workshop elements that you can take straight to your community.

The session will be hosted by Rob Shorter, Communities & Art Lead at DEAL, who will introduce the tool, how you can use it, and everything that's gone into it, including 5 years of experience and examples!

Then we'll hear from three community organisers who've been planning their own Doughnut Portraits with their communities:

• Kyungmin Lee, who's created a Doughnut Portrait of Neutinamu Library in Yongin-si, Korea;
• Tansy Drake, who's been working with two neighbourhoods in London, UK (Old Kent Road/Walworth and Brixton) to help them plan and create their own Doughnut Portraits; and
• Diane Randell, who's been planning how to create a Doughnut Portrait for the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with the community.

If you're interested to create a Doughnut Portrait for your community, this session is for you!

This session will include BSL interpreting.

Comments about the tool so far...

“Including a range of examples of portraits is great!  Each group can choose which ones to use.” - Bill Morrisett

“I love how it’s step-by-step. Even with cooking, I'm like... Please give me all the ingredients and all the steps 'cos I don’t know how to do it myself! And so I felt like this is what this tool is.” - Monica Zazueta Tabor

“This is amazing and helpful to break down the massive amount of information that’s out there” - Lauren Goetze

“[This tool] really opens up the possibilities to apply something so it’s very practical. And it’s presented in such a structured manner” - Ina Dimitrieva

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How to register

Please use this Zoom link to register for the session. If you would like to know more about the session, or if you have any access requirements, please email us at donutdays@doughnuteconomics.org  

For your information: this GDD 2025 DEAL session (via Zoom) will be recorded and shared on the Doughnut Economics Action Lab Youtube channel. By attending the session you agree to the session being recorded. If you do not want to appear in the recording, please turn your video / camera off.

If you’re unable to attend the session, check back to our  website after Global Donut Days 2025, where we’ll share the recordings. Please note, as our events aim to connect the people in the DEAL community, we ask that you do not send an AI notetaker in your place.