Finally here is my #Introduction I'm a #Design scholar, working on #Ecodesign #Commons and #ParticipatoryDesign #EcologicalDemocracy #OrganisationalDesign #ClimateCrisis and more.

Currently writing a new #DesignEcologies MA programme at LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY.

Our friends at Artsadmin are hosting an Art, Climate, Transition #ACTSymposium in London, 🗓️ 28-29 June. The programme includes lectures, panel discussions, performances, audio walks, and feasts. Pay-what-you-can tickets via → https://artsadmin.co.uk/events/art-climate-transition-symposium/
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#Art #ClimateChange #Transition #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #FoodJustice #ACT #ArtClimateTransition #ToynbeeStudios #Activism #ArtsAndActivism #CivilSociety #Democracy #ContemporaryPerformance #ecologicaldemocracy #parentsforfuture

How does #change for the better happen? Can our political system deliver the huge changes we need, as urgently as we need them?

I’ve long argued that, in order to tackle the #ClimateCrisis, we need radical political, economic and cultural #transformation. And I’ve always been told that we don’t have time for that.

This week, we’ve seen the real-time impacts of the environment movement’s refusal to think outside the box of existing political power. And the Greens’ failure (thus far) to build the social movements necessary to support our parliamentary negotiations. And, most starkly, the complete corruption of our mainstream politics - the fact that Labor and the press gallery act as mouthpieces for the fossil fuel industry and believe political manoeuvring is more important than stopping omnicide.

I thought this would be a good time to re-share this essay I wrote a couple of years ago, explaining my #TheoryOfChange in this moment of #polycrisis.

It draws on ideas of #ecologicalDemocracy and #EcoAnarchism, and forms the basis of a chunk of the last chapter of #LivingDemocracy.

Here it is: https://arena.org.au/theres-no-time-left-not-to-do-everything/

My #TEDx #Canberra on #TransformativeChange #panarchy #moths #LivingDemocracy and more is now live! I’d love thoughts and feedback, particularly from #EcologicalDemocracy folks, but anyone, really :-)

https://youtu.be/GtlZydpQGc0