Weaving Conditions for Prosperous and Regenerative Regional Economies

About this webinar

Regional Australia is facing a decade of profound transition. Communities are navigating climate disruption, economic restructuring, housing pressures, fragile supply chains and externally driven development that too often extracts value rather than growing local prosperity. Yet across the country, communities, enterprises and local leaders are already prototyping alternatives - strengthening local food systems, building community wealth, creating community-owned infrastructure, regenerating landscapes and developing new forms of collaboration rooted in place.

Over the past 12 months, the WEAVE Regen Economy Systems Lab, convened by Regen Labs with place-based practitioners and learning partners, has been exploring a central question: What are the conditions needed for communities and community-centric enterprises to lead the transition toward inclusive, prosperous and regenerative regional economies? 

Join Regen Labs and learning partners to explore an emerging framework for weaving these conditions together. They will share elements of the framework, informed by lessons and insights from practice. They will also share stories, insights and practical examples to illustrate elements of the framework. 

Participants will gain an appreciation of the roles of regenerative enterprise, convenors, collaborative infrastructure, community wealth building systems, capability building, stewardship and transition convening in creating economies of care, resilience and shared prosperity. And you’ll leave with a sense of what becomes possible when we stop funding disconnected projects and start incubating whole systems.

About the convenor

This Open Learning session is part of the WEAVE Regen Economy Systems Lab, a 12-month place-based innovation collaboration learning community, convened by Regen Labs and funded by the Australian Government through the Social Enterprise Development Initiative. WEAVE has been  designed to support and learn how to enable regional social enterprises to play a catalytic role in accelerating the shift to regenerative, inclusive, and climate-resilient economies.

Regen Labs sincerely appreciates the generosity and collaboration of learning partners including: WinZero, Northern Rivers Food Coalition, Highlands Homegrown Economy, The Food Embassy, Regen Hills and Coasts, Yinhawangka Aboriginal Corporation, Regen Melbourne, and Ready Communities. Thank you also to critical friends: Dr Joanne McNeill - The Good Shift, Dr Katherine Trebeck - The Next Economy, and Dr Jarrod Ormiston - University of Sydney. 

Read more about WEAVE here: https://www.regenlabs.au/weave-1

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. Dimity leads the Regen Economy Activator Program and is lead convenor for WEAVE Regen Economy Systems Lab. Dimity is also 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.

Nicole Barling Luke

Director of Earthshots

 

Regen Melbourne

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Nicole Barling Luke 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.