#57 - Regenerating the future with Coral Michelin
“All of Latin America is on fire at the moment. We’re losing thousands of hectares of ecosystems…”
This is how Coral brings us to Brazil at the start of our conversation. She is currently working for re.green, an organisation that restores tropical forests at scale, and she recently published her book on Ecosystemic Design.
We talk about the challenges involved and how we need to have Earth as a stakeholder at the table. Part of this worldview involves taking the local ecosystem, the local communities into account too. Cue in her doctoral research on Ecosystemic Design: a design approach that seeks to regenerate natural ecosystems through the regeneration of the worldview of the subjects involved in designing. It uses decolonial (or countercolonial) thinking, systemic thinking and indigenous thinking as tools…
We have a chat with Coral Michelin before she took the stage at the Service Design Global Conference in Helsinki.
Check out the resources mentioned after listening to this episode:
Buy Coral Michelin’s book on ecosystemic design in Portuguese or pre-order the book in English: designecossistemico.com.br
More about Coral Michelin: coralmichelin.com
More about re.green, restoring tropical forests at scale.
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