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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

Huntsville, Ontario, Canada

I work to build community.  Currently focused on housing - building sustainably with Tooketree Passive Homes and our SEED Building Solutions, and the Muskoka Community Land Trust, building permanently affordable community led housing.  Please reach out!    

Calgary, Alberta

Anouk was appointed President of Decentralised Energy Canada (DEC) in 2003 and is one of North America's leading authorities on    Her continuous engagement with members and industry partners has contributed to the development of a national network of over 10,000 industry stakeholders. Through the design and implementation of innovation to commercialisation programs, she has ensured that DEC annually impacts over 50 small to medium sized businesses in Canada. The current focus of her innovation efforts are related to  and systems automation solutions with an emphasis on behind the fence energy generation. She has over 25 years of sustainable energy experience from working in the private sector, government, and academia. She lived and worked in the UK for 7 years where she conducted post-graduate research into  at the University of Leeds. She also served as the Senior Officer at Leeds City Council following the UK’s Home Energy Conservation Act (1995). Anouk has been recognised for her contributions to societal  , and including advancement of women in the workplace (Knovo Award 2016 and INSEAD Business as a Force for Good 2019) and has earned accolades for her leadership in environmental preservation (Emerald Award 2017 and Clean50 2020). She was born and currently resides in Calgary, Alberta and holds a B.Sc. in  from the University of Calgary.

London

As an economics undergraduate I became very disenchanted by the traditional economic theories and decided not to pursue a career in the area. Having read donut economics back in 2017 and recently discovering DEAL, I’m looking for new ways to contribute towards a community which is looking to redirect society towards policies that improve lives in a more sustainable,  equitable and holistic way. #netzero #carboncapture           

Nürnberg

Hi! I am a graphic designer based in Nuremberg, Germany. I'd love to be part of creative projects aimed to empower people and support happier lives for everybody. I think today we have enough tools to actively improve the world starting from our surroundings, and even quickly. Words are not enough, I want to be part of something tangible.  

Cairo, Egypt

I am someone that believes in the power of humanity to change the current paradigm into a new design that better fits our present and future generations.   #universalincome 

Miami, FL (USA)

I am always seeking to contribute to more regenerative/sustainable, ethical, and eco-socially just world. Doughnut Economics excites and inspires me for its potential to transform cities!  My career journey has taken me into multiple sectors (technology, tourism, urban planning, academia, community non-profit, arts), but in all this work I have never strayed from my focus on socio-ecological justice. I am a hybrid cultural anthropologist / geographer who is building awareness of inclusive and regenerative tourism and placemaking in cities, with strategies focused on benefitting (versus exploiting) local communities (and the environment). I have a particular interest in addressing the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism.  As an aside, I've also conducted in-depth research on  Miami, Florida's Little Havana neighborhood, where I still offer (private) walking tours with a critical lens ...   

Boulder, Colorado, United States

​​I’m a researcher and writer, passionate about redistributing power and wealth and reimagining the responsibilities of markets and the government. After a career leading teams and a business in the tech industry, I pivoted to pursue a graduate degree in Anthropology to allow myself the room to pursue the question that I care about—how can we redistribute power to workers? I'm now seeking a full-time role in leadership or research positions at public policy, research, and/or nonprofit organizations that are focused on transforming corporate responsibility and how our markets operate.    

Derby, Derby, England, United Kingdom

I am an organisational  inclusion strategist, working to support leadership with and behavioural change at individual, team, and systems levels. I do that with my own consultancy Unheard Voice. I use ( ) as a foundation for this work. This is an academically robust approach to inclusive behaviours- if you're high in CQ you behave inclusively. It can be a missing link taking some of the guesswork out of the culture and values questions in the DE model. Before working full-time in inclusion, I did it part-time, within my Consultancy.  My career for 30 years before this was working in broadcast journalism as a journalist and leader. My mission is giving the unheard voice a place to speak.