Connect: Transformation on the Ground. Guidelines for community led innovation
Connect: Transformation on the Ground. Guidelines for community led innovation
October 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Join us for an insightful Community Connect session exploring a community led, place-based approach to innovation, and discover how it can be replicated in your organisation’s operations for greater impact.
As climate innovators, we’re often pushed to think of new bold ideas that are scalable and ‘solve’ urgent issues. However, what might get missed through such an approach?
Perhaps systems transformation can be more effective with slow, relational and place-based approaches.
But how can such approaches be integrated in your work as innovators? And how do you convince funders, investors, and strategic partners to follow this approach?
Join us for a new Community Connect session as we dive into innovation rooted in community and systemic transformation, and uncover how it can lead your organisation to achieve greater impact.
We’ll discuss with experts from Unearthodox and Post Growth Institute, who have just published a report on this topic titled ‘Nurturing Innovation: Weaving Containers with Care and Courage for Collective Change‘. With them, we’ll learn how this model of innovation can be replicated in your work context and scaled to other organisations partnering with you.
Meet the speakers
- Marianna Coulentianos is the Post Growth Institute’s Research Lead, based in the UK. She is a lecturer in Responsible Design, School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University
- Sonia Tesfaye is a research and policy consultant and social justice advocate, based in Germany. Her work focuses on gender justice, intersectionality, African feminism, and decolonial perspectives. Sonia is an Affiliate Fellow of the Post Growth Institute
- Claire Dusonchet is Innovation Portfolio Manager at Unearthodox, based in France. She applies systems and futures thinking, together with inclusive co-creation, to support innovators in developing transformative ideas for nature and society
About Unearthodox
Unearthodox is a thinkubator that supports unexpected connections to transform bold visions into reality. The organisation explores new concepts, anticipates emerging trends, and brings impact-focused innovation into action, catalysing transformative change for people and the planet. Its mission is to make bold, transformative innovations for people and nature findable, fundable, and feasible. Rather than adding to the many near-term solutions available in conservation, Unearthodox works in networks to reimagine what is possible, creating space for long-term, equitable, and regenerative futures to take shape, and moving ideas from vision to reality. The organisation connects and works alongside innovators, thought leaders, funders, and decision-makers who are committed to deep, systemic change in the service of all life.
