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Zürich, Switzerland

Founding Member & Lead Developer of https://greenheart.coop Experienced fullstack developer, curious about how tech, systems thinking and business (re)design can be combined to create a positive impact. Since 2015, I've worked with early stage startups and non-profits to create a future where both humanity and the living planet thrive together. I'm passionate about how free and open source software and co-operatives can help create an economy that is regenerative and distributive by design. I want to create digital experiences and solutions that empower people and civil society. Technology is exciting, but never the end goal. This desire to take a holistic approach helps me contribute more than just code to help the team succeed. Let's co-create a future that is regenerative and distributive by design! 🌿  

United Kingdom

Hello! I'm a codirector of Outlandish in London. We make websites and tools, and are a worker-owned tech ! 😁 I specialise in product & development, and run lots of product development . I also run Open UX Design: UX-ing in the open on problems that matter. 😊 I want to be part of the DEAL community because we are always looking at ways to improve our business to be more just and equitable. Also I want to highlight the benefits of worker-owned businesses, and to empower people to start their own. 

Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Founder: Universal Recognition Movement. Organiser: Doughnut Economics Scotland Network. About Me Hi I’m Rebecca (Becki). I’m a person and planet centred designer and design researcher. I work in the intersections between service, environment and policy design in relationship to social justice and planetary health. I work in civic/grass roots, participatory action research (PAR) and industry settings. My focus is on the role of accessibility (a verb for enabling equitable participation)  in how we design and nurture safe economic systems that support the life of people and planet. My practice is led by the Social and money models of Disability. I was Accessibility and Equity Lead to DEAL’s global communities for Global Donut Days 2023 -2024.  I am a visiting lecturer in Design approaches towards accessibility, regenerative economics and Social Justice at GSA SIT. I hold a first class M.Des in Design Innovation and Citizenship from GSA School of Innovation and Technology. My design thesis focused on Speculative Design Towards the Role of Accessibility in a Wellbeing Economy. This co-creative participatory action design research won GSA’s Sustainability Prize in 2022. It also helped me to set up the beginnings of the Universal Recognition movement (see below) with other Disabled designers and innovators. Our community is passionate about the transformative power of accessibility for creating safer and more just economic futures. I am passionate about my work as alongside my professional experience I have personal experience of disability. I am invisibly disabled. I am a child of a hard-of-hearing parent and grew up in a lip-reading household as a young carer to my Mum. I was also an unpaid family carer to my Dad during his terminal cancer. This was during a time of extreme austerity cuts to welfare, social and health care in the U.K. Our economic systems needs to support the realities of our loved one’s care, life and livelihoods. How we produce and provide for one another should safeguard society against harm and disablement rather than be the cause. My lived experience and research explores ways we can recognise and design better design economic systems that are fair and fit for our loved one’s futures. Grass Roots Organising & Research As mentioned I am founder of the Universal Recognition movement - a design movement led by d/Deaf, Disabled and neurodivergent campaigners, workers and innovators. Our members work across sectors to help society build better systems and environments that are fit for people and planet. Our work helps to support individuals and organisations to recognise, value and action accessibility within their work and regenerative initiatives. Through improving accessibility we can ensure no one gets left behind in our action towards regenerative economics. Values Design and systems thinking teaches us that how the planet flourishes directly impacts and is intertwined with (much like woodland brambles and wee beasties) how society flourishes too. Our relationships of Disablement, Disability and health are part of our core ecological relationships and sustainable planetary health. I believe we need equitable Disabled and diverse wisdom to re-wild our how we produce and provide for one another (our economic systems) in a similar we as need biodiversity to nourish flourishing sustainable ecosystems. Our economic system will not create safe and fair circumstances for all if ‘all’ are not enabled to safely and fairly create it - improving equitable approaches and accessibility in design innovation, economic and social research is key to this endeavour. Curious about and researching: - The ways we might transform society/the environment/economics to meet folks’ diverse needs rather than trying to ‘fix’ people to conform to a narrow view of society that doesn’t flex to our natural and needed diversity. - How our economic systems both enable and prevent equitable economic participation - How we start to collectively enable more than we disable all life within how we produce and provide for one another #Accessibility     #CoProduction

Mexico | Florida

I am a visual artist and domestic worker. I want to invest in my communities and divest from growth-oriented epistemes. I am interested in bridging my art and labor communities and harnessing the power of beauty and creativity towards more just models of community and economic life.