Flourish: Designing new paradigms and expanding our agency with Sarah Ichioka

What will it take to restore balance in our world? How can we repair our devastated environments, and secure future generations' survival? And what's they key to unlock the mindset shift to enable truly regenerative transformation?   With Sarah Ichioka, co-author of 'Flourish: Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency'.

Sarah Ichioka is co-author with Michael Pawlyn of 'Flourish' a rich, inspiring book that outlines key paradigm shifts for this time of planetary emergency.  Looking deeply into the web of life, Flourish proposes a bold, imaginative - and do-able - set of regenerative principles to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings and our communities.

Sarah is an urbanist, curator, writer and podcast host.  Connecting cities, culture and ecology, she has been recognised as a World Cities Summit Young Leader, and one of the Global Public Interest Design 100.  She is founding director of the Singapore-based strategic consultancy 'Desire Lines' and is co-author, with Michael Pawlyn, of the book 'Flourish' and co-host with Michael of the Flourish podcast.

In this expansive, incisive conversation, Sarah expands on the five paradigms she and Michael identified that are holding us back in the old 'business as usual' frame and the ways we can shift our world-view to new ways of thinking, being - and designing our lives. 

Drawing on the work of foundational thinkers like Freya Matthews, Donella Meadows, Janine Benyus and Ronan Krznaric, plus existing communities such as the Los Angeles Eco Village, Sarah shows us that the ideas and actions are already in place, we just need to build them bigger, proving that, as Willam Gibson has said, the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.

Flourish book: https://www.flourish-book.com
Flourish podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/flourish-systems-change/id1602779076

Donella Meadows Leverage Points: https://donellameadows.org/a-visual-approach-to-leverage-points/

Freya Matthews: http://www.freyamathews.net
Jay Griffiths 'Pip Pip': http://jaygriffiths.com/books/pip-pip/
Ronan Krznaric 'The Good Ancestor' :https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-good-ancestor-how-to-think-long-term-in-a-short-term-world/9780753554517
Deep Time Walk App: https://www.deeptimewalk.org/kit/app/
Los Angeles Eco-Village: https://laecovillage.org
Built Environment Declares: https://builtenvironmentdeclares.com
Architects Climate Action Network: https://www.architectscan.org