Meet the DEAL Community

Ilkley, England, United Kingdom

Keen to find tools & solutions that designers can use to address the challenges for the circular economy. As a Design Engineer with many years’ experience working at Nokia, Cisco as well as design consultancies and sitting on British Standard technical committees, I’m ideally placed to promote good practices & technical solutions. With 30 years in the consumer, telecoms, broadcast, utility, optical and medical industries, curating the entire product development from early concept, definition, prototyping, then delivering manufacturable designs then managed through production & test to product launch. Passionate about the circular economy, being an active member of circular design British Standard technical committees for BS8887 MADE and remanfucturing.

Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Memphis

Dunoon, Scotland, United Kingdom

I’m a holistic end to end designer with decades of experience in improving the way businesses and organisations work..

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mike Strode is a writer, urban cyclist, facilitator, and solidarity economy organizer with the Kola Nut Collaborative residing in southeast Chicago. The Kola Nut Collaborative is Chicago’s only time-based service and skills exchange (otherwise known as a timebank) providing an open platform for mutual aid, community organizing, and network weaving. The Collaborative recently launched an initiative to develop a network of Chicago-based facilitators trained in the Offers and Needs Market. Mike enters facilitation through the pathway and for the purpose of organizing towards a solidarity economy. When holding space for groups within the Collaborative or elsewhere, his North Star is skill sharing, the free exchange of resources, and deepening the possibilities of a more just future through cooperation. He is a Program Manager at Open Collective Foundation and serves on the boards of the US Solidarity Economy Network, South Deering Manor Community Association, and Dill Pickle Food Co-op.

Huelva, Andalucía, España

PhD. in Economics, Associated Professor in the Department of Economics in the University of Huelva (Spain). Member of COIDESO (Center for Research in Contemporary Thought and Innovation for Social Development, www-uhu.es/coideso), Coordinator of the Ibero-American Laboratory of Socio-ecological Innovation Initiatives within the framework of the La Rábida Observatory on Climate Change and Sustainable Development for Ibero-America (www.liiise.org). Co-Editor of the RIESISE: Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación Socioecológica (www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/RIESISE/about). Research lines: territorial intelligence, sociecological innovation and transition design.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Economist and Marketer in building

Oslo, Norway

Lead planet centric designer in frog, Norway.

Irvine, California, United States of America

I’m a sustainability graduate student and I work in the music industry trying to make concerts and festivals more sustainable

Wimbledon, London, England, UK

I am the Co-Founder of Climate Labs, a multidisciplinary design consultancy that focuses on design for sustainability. Working with clients across business and academia - Design Council, Power to Change, Futerra, PA Consulting, PwC, Kingston and Exeter University using Design Thinking to drive innovation for social and environmental impact. I also consult in the third sector for Words of Colour, Culture Heroes and IAAAE focusing on strategic design, creating value through a systems practice approach to impact communities. BSc Hons in Product Design and MA in Sustainable Design with Distinction. Recently I am part of the 100 experts with the Design Council attending the Design for Planet conference alongside COP26 in Dundee.

Santiago de Chile, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile

Seoul, South Korea

20+ years in finance, 10+ years in sustainability. Am very interested in developing better, carbon neutral communities in Asia. Am active with ULI Asia Pacific in Hong Kong as co-Chair of the Resilient Cities Council.

Vinhedo - PR / BRAZIL

Consultant and Professor of Circular Economy for Packaging. Leader of the CIRCULAR TERRITORY project, and co-founder of DONUT BRASIL. Apprentice of biomimicry, and connected to multiple movements in Brazil: Refloresta Vinhedo, The Climate Reality Project, Território Circular, Director of CIRCOOLAR - Training in Strategies for Circularity of Packaging in Latin America. and Vice-Director of CCD Circula (Center of Science and Development for Circular Economy).

City de Londres, England, Reino Unido

A human with a talent for spotting areas of opportunity & connecting the dots. I have a background in Corporate Communications & Change Management. Before transitioning to Service Design, I led an international Employee Experience team for over 5 years. As a Service Designer, I have conducted projects in sectors such as Justice, Education, and Healthcare. This year, I completed a MA in Service Design that helped me to enrich and elevate my empirical practice. As a result of how interesting and enjoyable my major project resulted, I am currently on the mission of embedding a circular mindset in everything I can touch as well as connecting inclusive entrepreneurship and design.

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

I am interested in transition design and regenerative economics.

Oslo, Norge

Active and curious person, in search of ways to contribute to a world where everyone can thrive.

Wellington, New Zealand

Kia ora (greetings) I am indigenous to Aotearoa/NZ and belong to the peoples/tribes of Te Rarawa/Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Porou. I am a mother and grandmother and also a politician. I am the coleader of the Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ and a Minister of the Crown.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I am open to new ideas.

Dudley, England, United Kingdom

I am a permaculture/regenerative designer working for Dudley CVS (a voluntary and community sector infrastructure support organisation), My key role is leading a social lab called CoLab Dudley based on Dudley High Street which is nurturing a collective of local people committed to intergenerational justice and long-term thinking. We call these people Time Rebels and they work to engage more local people in imagining and co-creating futures In which all beings thrive. I am also implementing and iterating permaculture/regenerative designs in my home and garden, and soon more of the street where I live.

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Decision Science Tool Creator

Praha, Česko

I am an architect, I work with natural materials and social issues, currently promoting cohousing in the Czech Republic. I have studied the principles of circular architecture and am looking for opportunities to support its development. I work on popularizing solutions to the climate crisis among architects in the Czech Republic. ( https://www.architects-for-future.cz/ or https://www.cka.cz/cs/cka/kontakty/pracovni-skupiny/ps-udrzitelnost )

Stourbridge, England, United Kingdom

Hi my name is Ginnie and I live in Stourbridge West Midlands and also have worked for many years in Birmingham. I have set up my company Moving Souls Dance, building on a shared interest with my Co-Director in dance, participatory arts and finding a way for the arts to help be part of the pain and change that the Climate Crisis is provoking. I am looking to co-create with others stories and interactive performance work that can inspire new ways of living and navigating these troubled times to find and invest in nature based solutions. I am involved with Jai Jagat International (https://www.jaijagatinternational.org) and have set up with friends Jai Jagat UK (https://jaijagatuk.co.uk/who-we-are) to support the global walk from Delhi to Geneva during 2019 - 20 and now the continuation of a 10 year programme!

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

I am a retired but active tourism academic fascinated by how tourism can help communities thrive through alternative economic models. I have written and spoken on regenerative tourism and on designing tourism for transformation. I am also a teacher of meditation and breathwork with the Art of Living Foundation. I am also a weaver. I am looking forward to learning from this community, and doing what I can to bring donut economics to these islands,.

London

I'm Director of an Architecture practice called Matter, Associate Professor at the University of East London and Trustee of Forest Community Land Trust. I work across scales and subject areas, aiming to contribute to systemic change using design skills, including via the Design Council. I'm a natural collaborator and thrive in shared creative environments. My best work has been 'research in action' projects that seek to both understand and change things at the same time and are engaging with health, wellbeing, equity and justice.

Chiang Mai, จังหวัดเชียงใหม่, Thailand

Hello, I'm Natalie, or you can call me Na. I am a regenerative designer, mud builder, artist and teacher dedicated to nurturing the human potential to regenerate our world. I believe in the power of the individual, respect the interbeing of life and see the world as a web of connections. I have a holistic approach to life and work, embodying regenerative action with creativity, compassion and generosity. I spend my time helping individuals, organisations and communities create life enhancing systems through consulting, design, project management, facilitating and getting my hands very dirty. I'm blessed to contribute to local, regional and global projects as; a faculty member of Permaculture Women’s Guild specialising in natural building and tropics facilitator for Ecosystem Restoration Design with Gaia Education ambassador for Global Ecovillage Network in Thailand coordinator for ReGENnations online project lab learning journey coordinator for women's empowerment program