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🌿 What does #regeneration mean to you? 🌿 Unearthodox has launched "Voices of Regeneration," a Creative Content Call inviting you to share your knowledge and vision through essays, visual art, and auditory pieces. Your unique perspective can inspire positive change! Submit your work before August 6th and be part of the movement towards a more #just, #equitable, and #regenerative future. For more details and the link to apply ⤵ #VoicesOfRegeneration #RegenerativeFutures

📣📣 Our 'Voices of Regeneration' call for creative entries is now open for submissions! 🎉🎉 The deadline is 6 August, so be sure to get your submissions prepared and sent in by or before that date. 🗣️🌱'Voices of Regeneration – A Call for Creative Content' invites people from any background to share your unique perspectives on the concept of ‘regeneration’ and what it would mean for all life to thrive together. This project supports the exploratory phase of our flagship Regenerative Futures programme. 'Voices of Regeneration' welcomes submissions in various artistic formats, including writing, visual art and auditory pieces. 📝🎨🎻🪇We aim to engage a broad range of voices and viewpoints. The goal is to foster an inclusive dialogue and inspire collective action towards a more just, equitable and regenerative future. Outstanding entries could win monetary prizes and collaboration opportunities, allowing contributors to help shape a global conversation on regeneration and make a meaningful impact. Submission window: 2 July to 6 August 2024. See the link for full details and the submission portal to apply. ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eB7AjZPv #regeneration #regenerative #futuresthinking #creativecall #callforsubmissions #callforwriters #callforartists #sustainability #conservation Melanie Ryan Sasha Sebright Sudha I. Fabio Pianini Karen Eicker Cían McAlone Ruth Guerra Megan Eaves

📣 New Blog Post - Libraries of the Future: Transforming Spaces for Community and Connection 📚 This is the 6th and final post in our Campus & Learning Space series.  🏛️ Libraries are no longer just about physical resources—they are transforming into vibrant, community-driven hubs! In this post, we explore how libraries are redefining their role, balancing physical and digital spaces, and embracing innovation to stay at the forefront of a changing world.  💡Discover insights from our recent projects with Glasgow Life, OnFife, and SLIC, where libraries are creating inclusive, sustainable, and future-ready spaces that prioritise community and foster connections. 👉 Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eetSG8zV #LibrariesOfTheFuture #CommunitySpaces #LearningSpaces #Innovation #Sustainability #LibraryDesign #DigitalTransformation

🌱 Exploring Solarpunk: A Growing Information Community 🌱 I'm excited to share my latest blog post where I dive into the world of Solarpunk through the lens of Fisher and Fulton's model of information communities. Solarpunk isn't just a creative genre; it's an evolving community rooted in resilience, sustainability, and collective knowledge sharing. In this post, I explore: 🌱 How Solarpunk’s ethos supports environmental and social information sharing. 🌱 The ways Solarpunk embodies community values and mutual aid. 🌱 Its potential to inspire real-world change by reimagining our futures. Read the full post to see how Solarpunk’s community vision aligns with future-ready information practices! https://lnkd.in/e9Uqrf4j #Solarpunk #InformationCommunity #Sustainability #FutureThinking #KnowledgeSharing #CommunityBuilding

Sometimes a pilgrimage can simply be somewhere you are being drawn to… It can give you so much clarity….. like the Enzo Mari exhibition in London at the Design Museum. This quote summarises the exact the reason why I am pursuing inclusive adaptive design, with an embedded symbiotic regenerative ethos, and inclusive systems thinking. It’s time to change the narrative to be inclusive and empathetic of the whole ecosystem. #adaptivedesign #inclusion #accessibility #symbiosis #adaptivewear #regenerative #thismatters #regenerativeleadership #diversityinnature #natureadapts

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Each minute, each thought, each action is the start of a future that will become a present for somebody. How to think about these future generations and take them into consideration, not just as an individual, but as a society? Join us the week after next. #sensinglikeasociety #institutionalarchitecture #futuregenerations https://lnkd.in/gpHHWcSd

'It’s really important to have some sort of horizon to grasp onto and work towards and for me that is thinking about what possible worlds might exist and how can I spend my time contributing to making those worlds possible. Of course that is a huge question and it changes a lot day to day. I have been thinking a lot lately about how art and scholarship around the environment can teach and inform one another in terms of practice and action.' https://lnkd.in/gnA-z9B6 I know Emma Bugg from two art and environment research activities in Canada : Sustainability and the Arts (SATA), a SSHRC funded project led by Dr. Tarah Wright, professor at the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, at Dalhousie University that identifies Canadian and global scholars, artists and practitioners working in sustainability, including myself as one of their advisors. The other project is the Living Climate-Impact Framework for the Arts project, a qualitative arts framework, designed as part of the Research in Residence: Arts Civic Impact Initiative by Mass Culture / Mobilisation culturelle, led by Robin Sokoloski, produced in collaboration with Creative PEI, that provides indicators to measure arts impact in environmental sustainability and fosters transformation towards climate action and adaptation by using forward-thinking to create a useful arts impact assessment framework. Some interesting research here on how the arts can make a difference and the role of the arts in the ecological crisis.  In other words, Emma Bugg, who is currently an interdisciplinary PhD student at the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is an arts is a climate research nerd or rather an arts and climate hero. Hard working and with an endless curiosity. Our conversation explored the dilemma of the environmental crisis as a cultural crisis, and how if we want a sustainable future - and we do want and need that - or any kind of future for that matter, we need to culturally transform our entire society. Scholars like Emma are doing their part and increasingly contributing to the emerging field of sustainability and the arts; however, this growing body of scholarship and knowledge, has not yet effectively tackled the specific role of arts organizations and their potentialities for impact and this is one of Emma’s passions. I got caught up myself in Emma’s enthusiasm for data, research and impact measurement during our conversation, when committed, quite impulsively, to apply the Living Climate-Impact Framework for the Arts on this podcast as a test case which I will share when I’m done on my ‘a calm presence’ Substack. Kudos to Emma and Robin and their colleagues for this tool. I invite others to try the framework. It’s a lot of fun to go through the Who, How, What format. Shannon Litzenberger Gabriel Zamfir-Enache Alexis Andrew

A recent project by Dream Networks provides example of localized action in action. In our Playful Engineers programme, through interactive workshops, children from local primary and secondary schools explored how engineering can help tackle sustainability challenges. Led by volunteer engineers, these young minds identified local climate issues, then used design tools like modelling and CAD to develop creative solutions. The final result? A public exhibit that transformed spaces in London into welcoming hubs of innovation. The children’s ideas occupied these spaces and showcased how every voice—even the youngest among us—can play a role in addressing the climate crisis. The impact was inspiring: “When I am older I would like to be an engineer.” — Student participant Over 1,000 community members experienced the exhibit, and our young participants demonstrated how powerful locally-led, community-driven climate action can be.

One of the keys to building a better future is being able to IMAGINE a better future. 🧐 The Luminaria is currently in the process of developing a nonprofit project that we’re calling the Luminaria Imagineerium. 🙌 This will be a space that is dedicated to hosting crowdsourced visions of a thriving future. 💡 ❓ What does a thriving world look like? How does it feel? How do people to each other? What roles do people play? ❓What types of buildings structures do they live in? How do we produce our food? What do we do with our waste? Every amazing technological, social, or environmental innovation, started off as a completely crazy idea that probably seemed impossible at the time. Don’t stop dreaming big and dreaming wild, because your imagination is our path to a better future! #innovation #changemaking