Oikonomia Learning Series launch during 2024 Global Donut Days (Past)

To mark the 2024 Global Donut Days, IMUA Labs @UH and our community-outreach arm, the People’s Knowledge Institute of Hawai‘i, are organizing two collaborative learning events—an online charrette on Friday, November 8th @2 p.m. (HAT), and an outdoor gathering on November 9th @4 p.m., featuring a lecturette, a research intelligence briefing, and a screening of the documentary Last Call (Dir. Enrico Cerasuolo and Massimo Arvat, 2014). While we initially planned to host this event at Queen Kapiʻolani Regional Park, the recent heavy afternoon rains have led us to relocate it to our Ecosocial Innovation Hub at the UHM Magoon Research Station.  Rest assured, the new site provides a fairly large event tent, ensuring our outdoor gathering remains protected from any inclement weather. 

These events aim to deepen our understanding, alongside our community partners, of the Doughnut Economics framework and to explore its potential for guiding Hawai‘i’s socioeconomic transformation amid the grand challenges of sustainability transition and escalating climate impacts.

We are excited to host GDD in Honolulu as a kickoff for our newest intersectoral learning stream, Oikonomia, dedicated to building intellectual and practical capacities for designing and incubating alternative economic futures in Hawai‘i. This initiative leverages the insights of heterodox economics and social innovation.

We realize that the summum bonum of an economy where the goal isn’t just production for its own sake, must reflect its participants’ shared vision of a good life. During our GDD event, participants will engage in an interactive thought experiment to articulate their own eudaimonic aspirations for our collective future.

This week, we are excited to announce the launch of a dedicated website, Oikonomia.CC, featuring a collection of reading and multimedia materials relevant to the GDD event and the Oikonomia Learning Series more broadly. To request access credentials for this site, please send a brief ‘count-me-in’ note to Téa Loren at ikegreen@hawaii.edu.

A hui hou!