Douglas Worts

I’ve been a ‘Culture and Sustainability Specialist’ for the past 29 years of my 45+ year museum career. I am convinced that a sustainable future must be built on a new foundation - which means transforming the cultural footing for individuals, groups, organizations and social systems within countries around the world - as well as the cultural footing for humanity's global community. I approach culture as ‘how we live our lives’, which is very different from our cultural sectors.  I see great potential in the existing global network of museums to expand their function beyond the existing framework of providing edutainment experiences in the leisure time economy. If museums can embrace the role of being catalysts of cultural and adaptive change, then it is possible to achieve the structural changes contained with the Doughnut. Also, for the past 12 years, I’ve been a member of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (previously SSBMG - renamed Community for Flourishing Enterprises), which has been developing tools to foster businesses that contribute to business, societal and environmental flourishing.