#Research-for-Action Seminar: Designing life-centred economies in Brasilia
Exploring how participatory design can help translate life-centred economic principles into territorial practice
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Welcome to the latest Doughnut Research-for-Action seminar, entitled Designing Life-Centred Economies in BrasĂlia (Brazil), co-hosted with Carol Tomaz and convened by Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
đź“… Tuesday, September 29, 3:00-4:00 PM (UK time)
Session Summary
What does it mean to prosper in a territory, and who gets to define it? This session presents ongoing doctoral research exploring how Design can mediate situated transitions towards Life-Centred Economies. Drawing on a participatory Living Lab in Sol Nascente, a low-income urban territory in BrasĂlia, Brazil, we will discuss how Doughnut Economics, participatory design and locally grounded knowledge were brought into dialogue to explore meanings of economy and prosperity. The case shows how design artefacts can make values and tensions visible, support collective deliberation, and enable prosperity criteria and indicators to emerge from lived experience rather than being externally imposed.
Speaker Bio
Carol Tomaz is an economist, strategic designer and PhD researcher in Design at the University of BrasĂlia (Brazil). Her research explores Life-Centred Economies and how design can mediate ecosocial transitions through participatory and place-based processes. Her work bridges Ecological Economics, Design for Transitions and territorial development, with a particular interest in prosperity beyond conventional economic indicators. She is co-founder of Doughnut Brasil and founder and president of the Institute for Life-Centred Economies (IECV), a research-action initiative advancing life-centred approaches to economic and territorial transformation.
How to Register
Please use this Zoom link to register for the seminar (also pasted at the top of this page). Upon registration (via zoom) you will receive an email confirmation. Please use the link in the email to add the event to your calendar.
This online seminar series is co-hosted by Andrew Fanning, DEAL's Research & Data Analysis Lead, together with members of the network and invited guests. The aim is to connect scholar-activists worldwide in open and informal spaces around specific topics/initiatives related to Doughnut Economics research and action. Feel free to bring a snack. 🍩
Thank you for your interest in connecting with scholar-activist peers to explore research for action with Doughnut Economics -- we look forward to learning with you!
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Andrew Fanning
Cádiz, Spain
Ecological economist, Research & Data Analysis Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), and Visiting Research Fellow at University of Leeds. I'm interested in deepening the concepts of Doughnut Economics and making them visible in data at many scales, from neighbourhood to nation (and beyond). Contact me by going to the DEAL contact form, and select 'Research & Data Analysis'.
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Francesco Mastropietro
Pisa, Italy
Graduated in Economics and Development, focused on uncovering how financial systems can foster a regenerative and distributive economy. I believe in the power of ethical finance to drive change and rethink economics to fund a real system change, especially to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Trying to redefine finance towards the original vocation: serving the common good and the community, a great opportunity able to restore dignity to the object, finance; and the subject, the human kind.
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Brett Douglas
Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
I work in financial software development. Agile software development is a haven for the neurodiverse. Finance suits my interests in mathematics and economics, and my need for complex problems to solve. My activist background was in single-issue campaigns in the 1980s-90s that aimed to change public opinion, such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Since then, humanity's primary self-inflicted existential threat moved from nuclear war to the climate emergency. While existential threats are always the priority, I believe that within capitalism all progressive changes are at risk of being rolled back, and lasting change can only be assured within a democratic economy. I'm keen to work with others on new ideas for expanding the democratic economy. This paper gives my views https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5373908
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