As I am writing this I am watching the US election unfold over and take up space of this entire week, sleepless nights and frequent Twitter refresh intervals included. This US election feels like a script by Shonda Rhimes with all the drama (stolen election!) and the archetypical characters at …
It is a long overdue reckoning with race that is currently taking place globally and across (hopefully) all sectors as a direct consequence not only of the #BlackLivesMatter protest but also as a response to locally embedded and deeply engrained oppressive structures.
Last week, two of the #Five4thePeople, Nina and Danie sat down (virtually!) for a conversation on the NonHuman Nonsense, a large-scope initiative by Leo Fidjeland’s and Linnea Våglund and their project Planetary Personhood in particular. The result of their exchange is summarized in what follows.
In my early 20’s I ended up being drawn to a methodology called design thinking, starting in university in Finland where I was surrounded by plenty of buzzwordy places like a “Design Factory”, accelerators, social innovation bootcamps and more. Design thinking is an iterative process and set of tools to …
Don’t we all prefer to have choices than to be thrust onto a certain path in life? The gratification one achieves from making that choice may not always be certain beforehand as is the case with most decisions we face, from the most existential of is there a God to …
