The new Designing Cities for All: RE-generation series Beings of the Economy with DCFA Fellow Shinta Oosterwaal is an exploration into the idea of ​​​​an economy as a sanctuary for all life. Our current economic system and thinking is resulting in polycrises. Yet beyond scenarios of doom and catastrophe, something seems to appeal to a new wholeness. We need healing responses to a deeply fragmented world with a new economy. In this series, we dive deeper, personally, and ask the question ‘how’ we may embark on a transformative journey to wholeness within the context of our economy.

The second episode of the Designing Cities for All: RE-generation series Beings of the Economy with DCFA Fellow Shinta Oosterwaal looks into healing responses. We will explore the possible transformative journeys from pain caused by the deficiencies of our current economic system to hope and getting out of a crisis mindset. We will take a deep dive into how traumatizing the economy has become and how we can heal from it both individually and collectively.

 

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About the DCFA Fellow

Shinta Oosterwaal is a researcher at Avans University of Applied Science and co-author of the book ‘THRIVE – Fundamentals for a new economy’, among others. Together with Kees Klomp, she collected a rich palette of very real and innovative economic frameworks beyond capitalism. As an unconventional economist, she reads the economic transition as a logical and organic process of renewal in which universal and expressively un-economic values ​​​​speak through new thinking and doing in the pockets of change of society as a healing response to a deeply fragmented world. Shinta is particularly fascinated by the existential dimension of transitions and by an economy as a sanctuary for all life.

About the speakers

As a life artist, Blanche Beijersbergen wants to contribute to a loving world. Together, she wants to search for unexplored areas within ourselves, where we rediscover our nature. She creates space for living perspectives. Blanche paints, writes, illuminates and confounds through initiatives, creations and workshops of meaning.
“I know that Love is in all of us. I believe that when we rediscover Love, we will live in harmony with ourselves, others and the Earth. Dear Earth takes us into unexplored areas within ourselves, awakens Love, aware of our pain we find space for wonder and change.”
Dr. Ernst Patrick Graamans is an assistant professor of Culture and Leadership at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). In 2020 he successfully defended his dissertation entitled Beyond the Idea of ​​​​Culture . His scholarly interest has focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), culture change within and beyond organizations , counterculture movements, servant leadership, the psychology of loving , and business and peace. Outside academia, he was a student of Vedānta under BP Puri Goswami (1898-1999†).

Godelieve Spaas has been a professor of economics in common at Avans University of Applied Sciences since 2018. She conducts research from an anthropological and artistic perspective into economic principles and forms of entrepreneurship that care for the earth and all its inhabitants. She investigates what is emerging (innovative practices) or could emerge (what-if scenarios) and therefore combines thinking, doing, and imagination. She is a maker and curator at Future of Work, of an ongoing participatory artistic action research on: ‘Who owns the economy and what economy do we want? Healing responses in her research are rooted in cognitive justice and turning the economy into a common.

 

About this series

The Designing Cities for All: RE-generation series Beings of the Economy with DCFA Fellow Shinta Oosterwaal is an exploration into the idea of ​​an economy as a sanctuary for all life. Our current economic system and thinking is resulting in polycrises. Yet beyond scenarios of doom and catastrophe, something seems to appeal to a new wholeness. We need healing responses to a deeply fragmented world with a new economy. In this series, we dive deeper, personally, and ask the question ‘how’ we may embark on a transformative journey to wholeness within the context of our economy.

About Designing Cities for All: RE generation

Over the first two years of Designing Cities for All (DCFA), we’ve learned about exclusion by design and the (re)design of inclusive cities. Along the journey, a certain question kept popping up: what exactly does ‘for all’ entail? After focusing mostly on the ‘who’ over the past two years, DCFA is rebooting as Designing Cities for All: RE-generation. This way around, the series is also incorporating the ‘what’ by looking through the fresh lens of regenerative design. This emerging field might very well be a promising answer to the challenges of our time, as it focuses on the design of products, services, systems, and processes that lead to both social and ecological recovery and that keep the systems healthy.

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