Organising in Place and Working Across Altitudes

About this webinar

This open learning is part of WEAVE, an innovation collaboration learning community for regenerative economies, convened by Regen Labs.

This session is for you if you're curious about:

• Place-based approaches to systemic change.
• The social infrastructures that support regenerative enterprise and the economic transition.
• The emerging roles of intermediaries and organisers for system transformation.

What to expect:

• Insights from Regen Melbourne on how they scaffold activity across city-wide transformation and on-the-ground projects, drawing on the example of Earthshots.
• Examples and place-based approaches from Regen Labs’ work as an intermediary partnering with regional enterprises and local systems, with insights into enablers for collaboration across enterprise, government and finance, drawing on example of their Regen Economy Activator Program.
• A collaborative space to share experiences, enablers / barriers, as well as frameworks and resources that help bridge the gap between vision, strategy and implementation.

Nicole Barling Luke

Director of Earthshots

 

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Nicole is a strategic designer, systems practitioner and facilitator. As Director of Earthshots at Regen Melbourne she develops place-based methodologies for systems transitions. She began her career at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, spent five years working alongside the public sector at Nesta (UK) developing programs for innovation teams to become more participatory and experimental. An anthropologist by background from the University of Melbourne, Nicole has recently worked with Paper Giant, States of Change, Regen Melbourne, and Nesta and has a Masters of Design Futures from RMIT.

Dr Dimity Podger

Co-Founder

 

Regen Labs

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Dr Dimity Podger is Co-founder of Regen Labs, a strategic design and innovation lab on a mission to catalyse local inclusive, regenerative economies across regional Australia that create wellbeing for communities and the planet. The team does this through support for place-based regenerative enterprises, nurturing regeneration ecosystems in regional communities, and scaling the right finance. For Regen Labs, Dimity leads the Regen Economy Activator Program, is lead convenor for WEAVE Regen Economy Systems Lab, a 12 month place-based innovation collaboration learning community commissioned by Social Enterprise Australia for SEDI, is a core team member for the feasibility study of the Regen Community Investment Fund, supported by Paul Ramsay Foundation, and collaborated with Really Regenerative CIC on a global study commissioned by Joseph Rowntree Foundation to understand how philanthropy can more effectively catalyse Place-based Community-Led Regeneration. She also hosts the zesty Orchard Exchange, a peer learning space for regenerative enterprises from across Australia, and is a thought partner for regenerative enterprise leaders and backbone organisations. Her work builds on her role as Regenerative Communities portfolio lead with WWF-Australia’s Innovate to Regenerate program supporting action across 30 communities, as well as her experience as a learning designer and facilitator for values-driven business, and as an agricultural economist across regional NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. She lives and works on Dharawal Country, with her family.