Reimagining Economics Education for a Safe and Just Future

Doughnut Impact School Launch
The Doughnut Impact School is being launched as a regenerative learning and action platform. It brings together students, educators, researchers, policymakers, artists, entrepreneurs and community leaders to explore economics beyond conventional measures of growth.

The focus is particularly on rethinking economics education, introducing systems thinking, ecological sustainability, wellbeing, indigenous knowledge, creativity and planetary boundaries. The School’s stated motto is:

“Learning Economics Beyond the Classroom, Reimagining Futures Beyond GDP.” 

This is important because DEAL itself describes its education work as creating transformative learning for regenerative futures and encourages educators and learners to explore economics beyond traditional classroom approaches. 

🌱 2. MindFrames —

Kutunza Sayari Yetu

The MindFrames programme brings the Doughnut conversation into the lives of young people, particularly through creative education and community-based learning.

Under the theme “Kutunza Sayari Yetu” — taking care of our planet, participants explore ideas such as:

• wellbeing and human flourishing
• care and community
• environmental stewardship
• creativity
• fairness and distribution
• sustainability
• relationships between people and nature

A particularly important part of the project is its work with children and young people in Rwamwanja refugee settlement, using art and creative learning to explore what it means for communities to thrive within social and ecological boundaries. 

So MindFrames gives GDD a child- and community-centred dimension.

☕ 3. The Doughnut Café

The Doughnut Café provides a much more informal space for people to encounter Doughnut Economics.

Instead of a conventional conference or lecture, the idea is to bring people together over coffee and conversation to ask:

What would a thriving Uganda look like if we cared about both people and the planet?

The Café can include activities such as Design Your Own Doughnut, Doughnut Portraits, open conversations and an action wall, allowing participants to move from understanding the Doughnut to identifying issues and actions relevant to their own communities.

It’s essentially a space for conversation, imagination and collective action.

🎨 4. Creativity, dialogue and action

What makes the Ugandan programme distinctive is the connection between economics and creative practice.

Art, storytelling, visualisation, dialogue and participatory activities become ways of helping people understand complex economic and ecological questions.

That fits strongly with the wider GDD 2026 programme, which includes themes such as ancestral economies, indigenous voices, art and imagination, cities, food and land, and who gets to make decisions. 

🌍 And it connects to the global movement

The Ugandan activities are part of a much larger global festival. Global Doughnut Days 2026 runs from 20–24 October, bringing together communities around the world to share experiences of putting Doughnut Economics into practice. 

There is also an official Global Doughnut Day Uganda 2026 event listed for 24 October at era92 HUB, Lungujja, Kampala, with presentations, an introduction to Doughnut Economics, interactive discussion, reflection and networking.