Bath City Doughnut Learning Group: What's Your Experience? (Past)
In our first 2024 session, we're getting to know each other and sharing our experiences of the economy to date...
Please Note: This event has now finished and can no longer be joined.
Session 1/9
As we welcome new members to our Bath City Doughnut Learning Group, and recognise the different levels of knowledge and perspectives of existing members, we're going to (re)work our way through the 7 Principles of a Doughnut Economy, as laid out in the book and in various articles and links we'll share along the way.
We have business-owners, consultants, architects, creatives, landscape gardeners, charity sector, healthcare, design and marketing professionals and more in the group. More than that, we're all human beings.
So in this session, 'What's Your Experience?', we're going to get to know each other and our experiences of the economy to date.
During our 90 mins, we'll run through a brief overview of our CURRENT 20th century-thinking economic design, and consider how the thinking shows up in each of our personal and professional lives, such as:
• How does GDP being the measure of the UK's economic success affect your life and work?
• How does the ongoing quest for financial growth affect your wellbeing or that of your friends, colleagues, clients and places you love?
We'll then share our findings, good and bad, to explore all our different perspectives and experiences.
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Member
Carra Santos
Bath, BANES, UK.
I'm an established and creative sustainability professional, equipping visionary leaders, educators and advisors with knowledge and navigation tools to step into their sustainable futures roles, through education, strategy and communication. Over 20+ years, my career in creativity, design and communication has evolved from internationally-acclaimed product innovation and future concepts for world-class events, to creative thinking skills for visionary leadership. My approach is influenced by my career origins in multidisciplinary concept generation and development - tapping into food, fashion, interiors, furniture, exhibition, spatial and urban design - and my personal passion, which is exploring how transformative habits, attitudes, practices, behaviours and relationships can be facilitated by forward-thinking design and communication. I began exploring Doughnut Economics around 2017, attending events from 2019, and becoming a DEAL community member on its launch in 2020. My interest in economics increased during my 2021 'Sustainable Development in Practice' Masters dissertation on narrative framing and communication of sustainability practices to UK business leaders, which touched on the difference between degrowth, growth-agnostic and growth-led perspectives. I started the Doughnut Economics group in Bath, UK in 2022, and and continue to support it and a number of councils, universities and enterprises with local outreach and engagement. Email me or join me on LinkedIn.
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Member
Simon Langley
Bath, UK
Recent finisher of Doughnut Economics. Work for a large food company and interested in all things circular and sustainable, and keen to expand current knowledge and learn from others.
