The goal of the Doughnut is to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet, but what does this mean for the neighbourhoods, cities or villages where we live?
To help people explore this question, DEAL created the Doughnut Unrolled framework, which takes us from the Doughnut to four ‘lenses’ that invite us to look at the interplay between local aspirations and global responsibilities in our places – both socially and ecologically – and identify possible entry-points for transformative action. Doughnut Unrolled is a set of five tools to turn this concept into practice, and changemakers from around the world have been experimenting with these in various ways.
This session will introduce the Doughnut Unrolled framework and the many practical possibilities to turn it into workshops, processes, policies or projects in communities, local governments or specific sectors. An introductory presentation by Leonora Grcheva will be followed by real practical examples shared by Catriona Rawsthorne from CIVIC SQUARE (Birmingham, England), Annika Hjelmskog (Glasgow, Scotland) and Dani Hill-Hansen and Kasper Guldager Jensen (Denmark).
Hi everybody hi hi and and and welcome and welcome to today’s session uh my name is uh Leonora I am cities and regions lead at the donut economics action lab and I am calling live from the London uh uh London Global donut day so here I am joined by wave to the
People a lot of people from London who have come here to to discuss to exchange and to join us on this day so so today we will be focusing on talking about the donut androll the framework for downscaling the donut to the scale of places um and we will be joined by
Several practitioners who will be sharing various ways in which they’ve put this framework into practice so and thank you for joining all of us uh thank you for joining everybody in the chat please share where you’re joining us from and and what you’re interested in and what your name is and anything else
And we’ll just get started now as we have a a a tight schedule to go through and I will be introducing our speakers uh as we go along so just I’m just going to start sharing uh my screen hopefully um all good okay for those for those be
Joining online be aware that there’s sign language interpreters in the session and you can click the interpretation button to enable it and post uh check with the an AR for any technical issues and keep yourself muted please so we’ll get started and as I said we’ll be joined by by three
Unfortunate Dan by three practitioners will be sharing their work so to get started this is the Donut of course and it’s the human it’s the compass for Humanity it’s inviting us to meet the needs of all people uh while uh within the means of The Living Planet so living no one falling
Short on life essential leave no in the hole in the middle and not overshoot those planetary limits on the outside so that’s the donut that’s the core concept of donut economics but how do we turn this idea into uh action in our places what would it mean for our place to live
In the donut and the way that we do it is by doing this thing we call unrolling the Donut so we zoom into that safe and just Green Space of the dut and we ask what do we need to do in our place in order to live in that place to get to
That safe and just space for Humanity and when we do that when we zoom into and we have the ecological ceiling on top and the social foundation on botton we ask this guiding question for all of our places and this is the starting point for bringing our places our cities
Our town our neighborhoods into the safe and just space of the donut and that question is how can our place become a home to thriving people in a thriving place while respecting the well-being of old people and the health of the whole planet and this one long question really
Holds four complex questions in it because when we downscale the donut to our places we start recognizing not only the ecological ceiling and the social Foundation but also that we need to be thinking about local aspirations as much as Global responsibilities and this is how we get these four lenses the local
Social the local ecological the global social and the global ecological so we have these four guiding questions the first one the local social One how can all the people of our place Thrive what does it mean to thrive in each of our places it’s a very different thing in
London in Mexico in cira so we’re looking at the meeting the needs of all H people looking at all of these Dimensions this white icons on the bottom uh enabling people to have access to food to water to health to education to housing to human rights to political
Participation what does it mean to take action to enable all the people of our place Thrive that’s the local social lens the local ecological lens is asking us how can our place be as generous as nearby nature or how can we restore and regenerate nearby nature and this lens
Is inviting us to recognize that even though we’re now sitting in buildings in places on paved surfaces in cities we are built on what was once a healthy thriving natural habitat and if we go out of our places out of our cities out of our Villages into the
Still healthy Balan thriving nature we can see that it continues to live in Balance to cleanse the air to house biodiversity to store carbon to cycle water to harvest energy regulate temperature build and protect soil so we’re asking how can we be as generous as nature how can we design and plan our
Places so that we not only sustain them not only do no harm but we start to actively regenerate and restore them as nature does and then we zoom out into the global ecological lens asking how can our place respect the health of the whole planet and this is about
Recognizing that our actions here have impact on the planetary boundaries and impact across uh the world so it’s about asking and taking action to decarbonize our Energy System our transport our housing systems to change our life life Lifestyles and consumption patterns in order to reduce the pressures that we’re
Currently putting on our planet on climate change on land use on biodiversity and finally the fourth lens the most invisible one in in Daily practice in cities in communities in conversations even I would say is the global social lens asking how can our place respect the well-being of all
People and this is about recognizing that in this globalized connected world so much of the actions we take here have impact on people in other places around the world whether it’s the products we use where this microphone coming from where were these materials extracted from stored produced uh transported what
Were the conditions on of all of those workers what were the impacts on all of those communities along the way that had to had a role in bringing all of these things to us what are the different ways in which we can impact positively the well-being of people elsewhere whether
It’s through Supply chains and procurement whether it’s through learning and networking opportunities whether it’s through protest and lobbying how can our place respect the well-being of all people so these are the four lenses this is the donor unroll framework of the four lenses this holistic framework that
Becomes the starting the entry point of various different types of action through donut economics in places and and we at deal have developed a set of tools to get everybody started these are all open source and available for everybody allowing you to start experimenting in your own place with
These Concepts and we’re going to explore a bit about the various kind of entry point of and ways to be using these four lenses so one is what we call the community portrait of a place and uh so the community portrait of a place is about building an idea an
Understanding a vision of our places at the scale of neighborhoods at the scale of communities by using kind of these guiding questions it’s about identifying challenges or loc constraints or initiatives and projects or or dreams and there are many ways that we can be using this approach in our communities
In our neighborhoods on our street or also at a at a city scale holding this conversations and this is also a part of what we’re doing here today we’re holding we’re kind of co-developing this community portrait of a place for London so you can be using it in
Different ways uh you can be thinking about a community portrait for different ways as a way to map the state of a place so to ask this guiding question what is the state of our place to today what is working and what isn’t what are our local strengths and challenges
Through these four lenses what is already uh um you know what do we already know we can be using it as a way to be co-designing community-led Visions so to be asking what does it mean to be thriving for us if we were to co-create to think about how we can Thrive locally
And enable people elsewhere to thrive uh take care of the planet uh here locally as as well across the world what would it mean to co-create those Community lead Visions here it could be used as a way to making the change visible to map initiatives projects organizations that
Already exist in a place that are already helping us all move in the donut whether it’s the local food bank whether it’s the local coffee place that’s working through with sustainable practices whether it’s a refugee organization whether it’s social support groups or local ecology group what are all the different things that already
Exist and how can we use these four lenses to start mapping them and seeing them all together as working collectively towards a common vision and we can also be using these four lenses to be mapping stories histories exper lived experiences in places so many different entry points choosing
Different questions to get started on this journey of building a community portrait of a place another approach uh is uh methodology that we call the data portrait of a place so the data portrait of a place is essentially building and this is what uh London donut Coalition
Have built and and you can see here on the back but it’s about building uh a datal understanding of how our place is currently doing right now what does it mean we zoom into each of these four lenses and into each individual Dimensions so if we see here in the
Local social lens and we zoom into the mobility they mention we’re asking what are some targets that our place currently have and these normally live in various local government L Visions policies of place so we set various targets sometimes very vague all people will Thrive by 2030 sometimes very
Specific will reduce emissions by 30% in five years time Etc so what are what is a target that we currently have or several Targets in this example this target is the area is accessible by Everyone by public transport in a safe as accessible way and what is the best
Available performance indicator of how we’re currently doing towards achieving that Target so what are we measuring that’s telling us whether we’re meeting this target or not and more often they not will discover that we don’t have these things that we set these targets and visions and then we don’t really
Measure if we’re achieving them and this is also about building that holistic data Vision uh portrait and understanding so this could be you know in 2022 60% of all Journeys were made by public transport so if we do this for all four lenses and for all Dimensions
There we build this image of how we’re currently doing as a place through these four lenses and then we can roll the four lenses back into a donut and build a donut of our place that is telling us very clearly where we’re doing well and where we we’re doing not so well and
Again this can be a starting point for many different types of uh of initiatives and ways of of using this both in local government as well as in various uh different types of of uh sectors so we can be using it again as a state of a place so understanding how
Place is currently doing this is Brussels donut or seeing year by year as an annual state of a place or by anual showing us the trajectory of where we’re get going better where are we going worse where are we stalling what is the change that’s actually happening and
This is from cornwall’s progress report on on their Vision showing very clearly where they’ve gone worse where they’ve gone better and where they haven’t changed in the course of years it can be used as a as a compass to prioritize projects budgets actions within local and Regional government so basing the
Allocation of budget prioritizing projects based on where and how the city is really needing work based on where you’re really doing poorly through the lenses of donut econom iics it could be used as a way to start setting Pon goals and transition this is Mexico donut and Mexico’s donut right now and Mexico’s
Desire Donut for 2040 starting to set out the policies and the actions that they would need to do in order to change this mirror of a city in order to change those wedges so it’s kind of a a compass for a future transition it could be used
As a starting point for an outcomes framework for V various Vision City scale Visions or Hood scale Visions so this is in Cali Colombia where they’ve of uh chosen a big set of indicators through which they’re measuring and they will be tracking how they’re doing how well they’re doing towards achieving
Their vision and it can be used as well as a multi-stakeholder compass for Action in a place so not just by one organization or local government but how can many places many organizations many initiatives come together Guided by this common Compass towards change what can everybody contribute what can the
Businesses the community organizations the individuals the households contribute and finally the Final Approach is exploring a topic and this is about putting anything in the middle of these four lenses so whether it’s a strategy a policy a project initiative a whole sector and asking and of dissecting it or visioning it through
The lenses through the four lenses in this example it’s thinking about a new community center and asking how can it contribute positive in all of the four lenses of the donut and again this can be used as a way to Pro to to do project visioning or project assessment as well
As they do in valence romance in France so assessing how project is doing and how what is the impact of a given project on both the social and ecological indicators on the donut it can be used as a way to uh to to discuss and to Envision strategy strategy
Designs in various sectors or to lead kind of sector level conversations around the four lenses so these were kind of a glimpse through the various possibilities of action and many case studies and places that are already demonstrating them and finally one thing that I think remains quite important
About the four lenses is that they lend themselves to be playful and I we often underestimate how important this is but we need to be reimagining the future to handle the crisis of today and being creative and playful needs to be a part
Of it in order to to be able to come up with this new Visions so it’s it’s a framework that lends itself to you know a Myra board or or posted notes on a poster or the four lenses can become floor lenses or they can become windows
Or they can become creative whole design sheets or they can be sketches where everybody can design so we invite everybody to kind of experiment and play with these Concepts and to learn from from the various case studies of action of how they can actually be turned into
Practice so having said that I will now pass on to uh uh to the practitioners here who will uh who will share a bit about what it means to be turning this into practice and we start with cat so uh uh cat rern is a donet economics researcher
At Civic Square uh and she’ll share how core lenses have been used in a Neighbors scale in Birmingham she joined Civic Square as a neighborhood donut economics researcher this year having previously worked on lady Wood’s First Neighborhood data portrait and following her Masters in sustainable cities from University of Leeds in which she
Explored social policy implementation Gap in the city from a degrowth and donut economic perspective she also co-authored the leads donut economic portrait so cat uh on to you to share a bit about the practice in Civic Square thanks Leonora um very grateful to be here and be part of global donnut day
Very exciting um can you all see my screen just check in with that yeah great I’ll just crack on then because we’ve not got too long so I thought I’d start with a little bit around who we are what we do at Civic Square so we’re an initiative based in ladywood a
Neighborhood in Birmingham here in the UK working to demonstrate the Civic and social infrastructure for the climate transition of our homes streets and neighborhoods to be collectively LED designed owned governed by the people who live there so our foundational ideas around neighborhood transitions are rooted in the multiple interconnected crises of
The 21st century as we’re seeing the cascading impacts of our entangled wider economic and political systems both driving inequality Injustice and ecological degradation impacting pretty much every aspect of our lives so we know that the scale of the challenge is significant and it’s complex but it urgently needs transition so this kind
Of forms the backdrop of our work since 2019 those that Civic Square the neighborhood is an incredibly important unit of change because it brings together this big picture it’s where we feel the impacts of the poly crisis most viscerally and tangibly but it’s also where our agency and our ability to
Organize is the highest creating massive opportunity for creating change in our place so back in October 2022 we launched our neighborhood donut portrait which is a synthesis of everything that we’ve discovered over the first three years of our work in the neighborhood it asks big questions acts as a compass as
Leonora said and helps us to navigate The Journey towards a regenerative and distributed by Design neighborhood that is built for the long term so this uh portrait of place is composed of a community and data portrait of place which is co-created with neighbors and partners and this
Enables us to see an overall picture of ourselves the challenges the opportunity the vision as Leonora said the beauty The Joy the dreams the data and the stories of our place which collectively together helps us to ask who are we what do we need to transform what’s working
Well what could we be what goal bold goals are we working towards and for us this neighborhood portrait of place isn’t a static exercise it’s very much the start of something a lot bigger providing the first iteration of a living open- Source dashboard for the neighborhood co-created by all of those who live
There so everything that we’ve learned through these first two layers of the community and data portrait of place underpins and informs the third layer of uh this portrate the Deep demonstration of transformative practice across different scales in the neighborhood from the home street and neighborhood uh which is very much a continual evolving
Methodology but for us ongoing collaboration as a neighborhood in ladywood is fundamental to our wider emerging Mission focusing on the Civic infrastructure that is required for neighborhoods to be at the Forefront of their climate Transitions and we’ll be discussing this layer in more depth uh at our own Global
Donut Day program today from 2 pm GMT time onwards which of course you’re all welcome to um so I as I’ve mentioned the co-creation of our community portrait of place didn’t take place over a specific day or two it was very much an ongoing deeply embedded process in our everyday
Organizing in the neighborhood so over the past four years we’ve created hundreds and hundreds of particip I atory immersive entry points spanning everyday interactions over a cup of tea and a cake or after school club to much larger convening and festivals um we’ve just wrapped up retrofit reimagined for
This year in Glasgow yesterday um as an example of that we feel that all these layers are absolutely vital in nurturing Civic agency imagination and local action and that these efforts collectively set the path for addressing those more substantial systemic challenges together in our neighborhood very much built on trust distributed
Knowledge and strong relationships um and so our community portrait of plac is about these typologies of entry points in our neighborhood which I’ll speak to a couple of here so you can see kind of the activities that um composed that Community portrait of place peer-to-peer learning Journeys visits to center of
Alternative Technologies and learning from their practitioners conversations with authors and Visionaries and so on so the four lenses showed up through out this in many many ways but in 2020 we designed our first phase of intentional co-creation as part of this unrolling the donut process and this took the form
Of four Festival like co-creation weeks spread out over 12 months so around one every three months kind of learning and building on each co-creation week that had come before and these acted as core anchor points and Milestones in the process of developing our neighborhood portrait of place at this point the deal methodology
For Crea a portrait with your community didn’t exist so we were very much experimenting with what it means to take these Concepts off the page and bring them to life in practice in the neighborhood and learning as we go leaning into the possibilities of of what if what could happen if we take
These ideas and put them into the hands of the community so co-creation weeks were designed to be very practical outside in the neighborhood themed immersive very literally about and metaphorically about getting to grips with the ideas of a regenerative and distributive by Design neighborhood starting where we are in our place in
Ladywood so the four lenses became an important tool throughout these key weeks uh in which we prototyped certain methodologies that could then become everyday practices to support building literacy participation and agency across the neighborhood um so I’ll give a couple of examples so co-creation week 2 was the
First time that we introduced the four lenses and really started to unpack that safe and just space of the donut what did it mean in our place of ladywood what did it look like for the people of ladywood so we centered uh the week around Deal’s core inquiry questions
That you’ve just seen each of the four lens questions and turned the safe and just space language and ideas into a practical experimental co-creation so for this week we opened up the future of the Civic Square site uh which is an old deric industrial building right in the heart of our NE uh
Neighborhood in bming in ladywood in Birmingham um turning it into a pop-up studio and exhibition space and each lens was kind of split up into its own zone of the studio and throughout the week we invited participation and co-creation and died deeper into each of these lenses the aim of this was to
Bring some of these Concepts to life playfully and creatively and very much at the human scale we wanted people to be able to explore them in reality holding discussions and conversations and dreaming about how they play out in their everyday lives in the neighborhood drawing out the interconnections and
Interdependence between the local scale and the global scales so in this process we provided some explainer visuals we stripped back and simplified some of the language to help with this guiding of um thinking about the four lenses in our place we had deal um Rob shorter from deal and
Leonora you are also there for co-creation weeks as well um run a workshop using these visuals to really start to try and understand what it might look like to hold space for unpacking the full lenses in the neighborhood on a regular basis and we added some uh more um open
Inquiry questions that were designed to solicit generative constructive and positive ideas and Visions towards the big shared challenges um and what these questions meant in our place that helped support some of translations from taking those big broad questions into making them more relatable and tangible in the neighborhood
Uh and this kind of open inquiry approach has been part of how we organize for a very long time um and the for lens framing is continually very well received in the neighborhood supporting expiratory conversations provoking thought and raising Consciousness around the challenges that um we’re seeking to respond together in our
Place and we find that as a canvas it really helps bring tangibility and a a strong entry point where people can see themselves reflected in the framework opening up the possibilities for conversations and imaginations to expand within each lens and between the lenses um from there so here are some other photos to
Show that this is very much a continual practice it’s not a one-off um popup conversation to be having so this moves on to the next tool which is uh if we go back to co-creation week two as the Civic Square team became more and more confident withholding these convers ations relating to the
Four lenses and the domains involved in unrolling the donor the team thought about ways that we could make this more practical more immersive that could anchor it into regular participatory programming that neighbors would find enjoyable in their everyday lives so from that the four lens Workshop was
Created and this became very much a regular feature in Subs subsequent co-creation weeks and Beyond to this day you know I’m running a workshop at our neighborhood trade school in two weeks time um and here you can see the first side of that canvas based off the four
Lens framework so um this canas can be used to kind of go on a journey around your neighborhood with neighbors and participants each bringing their own Curiosities their own knowledge um and using the framework to relate to and make sense of what’s coming up across our local ecology and our social Fabric
And tying that into um different scales as the four lenses supports uh but in a way that that’s really practical and tangible and creative kind of drawing this process and drawing out those interconnections as we go so here you can see the second side of the canvas which supports with the
Literacy of what uh you might consider throughout your Explorations um in each lens in your place I think there’s a link to the tool that will be shared in the chat as well but you can find all of this in our community portrait of place dashboard
Online which again I think the link will be shared um yeah so across the subsequent co-creation weeks and in other convening spaces the team witnessed how this tool enables conversations to span really really vast topics from the local to the global from anything from air pollution
And health and land use to likin to financial instruments for new models of value creation and what it means to recommon the land and what that would look like whilst also creating space for different Vantage points perspectives and experiences within that for me the best thing about this tool is that it
Can be used anywhere it can be used at multiple points across the neighborhood multiple times multiple Seasons throughout the year and can be built on for much deeper explorations of place so we’ve been um using this as a foundation for some of our neighborhood science work which again you can find in the
Community portrait of place um dashboard so there’s some photos that’s mostly it from me I just wanted to highlight that we use the four lenses in many many ways across our work so if you are interested in getting into some of the other uh layers of that portrait of
Place then um we have our own Global donnut Day program from 2il 6 PM GMT time today where we’ll host a range of sessions getting deeper into these layers of why and how we use the doughnut as our organizing framework I work with the donor as a design
Framework for the retrofit of an old industrial building in the neighborhood into a regenerative Public Square and other ways that we’ve been taking the theory off the prage into deep practice at the neighborhood scale but very excited to hear some of that through the practitioners that we’ve got here today
So yeah thanks a lot thank you so much K thank you that was amazing I’m sure people have loads of questions that we don’t have time for which is why we’ve shared all these uh links in the chat so you can take your time to explore the
Work of Civic Square uh and I really recommend it to everybody so I’ll invite our next speaker uh anuka who’s going to be sharing about the work working from a data portrait perspective with the city of Glasgow anikah h is a public health researcher at the University of Glasgow
She looking at whole system approaches for planetary health and inequalities with a focus on applying Don donut economics to Glasgow as part of gallant’s living lab research program seeking sustainable and Equitable solutions to support glasgow’s just transition to Net Zero anuka floor is yours thank you very much Leonora uh
Good morning everybody uh thanks very much for having me this morning on this really exciting day and Cat thanks for your really beautiful presentation that was really amazing um as Leonor just said I am a researcher at the University of Glasgow and I’m going to share a
Little bit this morning about our work with the donut framework over the past two years or so um we’ve been working with a number of Partners on this work particularly Glasgow city council um and you’ll see from my presentation that the f of the work so far has really been to
Try and explore and embed those donut ideas and principles among different groups and departments across the city so so far we’ve we’ve found it really useful for um Collective visioning and goal setting um and we did start off with a data portrait which I’m going to
Touch on as well um as well as some of our plans for the next steps um and what we’re going to be doing now that we’ve ended up with a a pretty comprehensive and detailed vision of what Glasgow might look like um if we could exist within the
Donut so I’ll just give a bit of a little bit of background um a lot of the work that has been possible in Glasgow has been down to a pretty uh supportive political context and um a progressive stance on issues like Net Zero and just transition from the city council itself
And the specific timing of this project as well um so we were able to launch this work which in Glasgow has been part of the C40 cities thriving cities initiative um while Glasgow was actually hosting cop 26 two years ago so there was a lot of momentum going on in the
City and this project is something of a of a legacy from that um and at the same time we’ve had a really good ongoing relationship between the university and the city council that has meant a a history of collaborative working on some of the particular issues and priorities
Um that are specific to Glasgow mainly with um some focus on the city’s really ambitious goals for sustainability but with that very clear need to focus on inequalities at the same time and deprivation in the city so we were lucky to get um five years of research funding
For this Gallant program that the Glasgow portrait is now part of and this Gallant program is looking at using Glasgow as a living lab to trial sustainable and Equitable solutions to the climate and ecological crisis which is also using the donut as our conceptual framework so this City University partnership
Um is was already established but is now ongoing and we’ve got potential hopefully longer term applications for our portrait work that we’ve been spending a lot of time making sure our partners are on board with um and and dying into this Vision that we’ve been trying to create
Together so just a quick uh overview of our sort of sort of timeline um and the first thing that we did which was to create a data portrait uh using that methodology that Leonora went through in in her slides um where we mapped targets and indicators across those different
Dimensions and we found that Glasgow was already doing a lot of work that was relevant uh to the donut goals as you can see from some of those strategies um up on the screen there but that was there was often um a lack of alignment or crossover between some of
This kind of work that could have been really mutually reinforcing or would maybe need fewer resources to get off the ground if there was more cross- departmental kind of working um and even in some places we found some contradictions um where certain Ambitions or strategies were actually
Likely to to work against each other um or cancel each other out but that those tradeoffs weren’t obvious unless we started to take that whole system view um which we were using the donut to try and support uh and that was really actually the purpose of the workshops
That that came afterwards was to use that four lens framework to get stakeholders thinking really holistically um about what thriving in the donut would really mean for Glasgow across all four lenses and all 44 dimensions of the unrolled donut at the same time um so we held five different
Workshops with different groups and sectors trying to hear from really diverse perspectives over the course of last year and the beginning of this year um and in total I think we engaged about 130 participants and it is their contributions to the workshops that have made up our finished
Portraits um now I’m actually not going to talk tooo much about the desk based work and the data portrait um deal were kind enough to post me on that topic before and I know there is a presentation available online which goes through what we did at that stage of the
Process in more detail um and we found that a really really useful starting point for the work um in terms of getting a good understanding of the state of the the current system and which ALS gave us a helpful set of existing or potential indicators that we might use
Um to measure progress and they give some suggestion of how close Glasgow might be to the donut now but actually those uh those indicators and those official City targets um aren’t being specifically included in our published portraits uh because we haven’t actually gone through the same process of co-design and co-production
Um as we have for reaching our thriving Glasgow definitions uh which do form the bulk of our portrait and which I’m going to just quickly move on to in in the next slides so these are the real substance of our collaborative work so far um these definitions of what
Thriving could look like in Glasgow and it’s a really broad holistic Vision um of what Glasgow could look like across all four doughnut lenses if we were to get into that safe and just space so most of these are taken from uh different Workshop contributions and
They include the views and ideas of lots of different people across the city system and we s after the workshops we analyzed uh the different responses that we had condensed them Amalgamated them and we turned these answers to the workshop questions into firstly a concise definition of what thriving
Would mean for Glasgow in that Dimension and then we’ve got a more detailed description of what this could look like uh which covers some of the contextual and enabling factors that will be really necessary to actually make progress on this in Glasgow um so this gives us a
Sense of the things we need to be keeping an eye on measuring making sure that they are included in any sort of smart targeted policy responses that that come out of this process so overall these definitions create our whole system Vision um of what a thriving Glasgow should be aiming for and these
Definitions have now been officially endorsed by Glasgow city council um they were approved at their NetZero committee and Council Administration committee over the summer so we’ve managed to get significant buy in for this Vision um and the the next steps and challenges will be around how we operationalize
That and measure it um so a lot of those initial outcomes from the data portrait will will start to be really relevant again now now that we have a real sense of what we should be looking for um and how we might sort of Benchmark progress or
Success so I’ll just go through um a really quick example of how this might work in getting stakeholders to think in systems which is a really important part of the work so far um the full range of those definitions is is really broad um but there are lots of important topics
That come up repeatedly and there are lots of different weighs in to those 44 Dimensions depending on somebody’s professional or personal background or area of interest um and it gives us a really useful tool to consider all those four lenses when we are thinking about particular priorities for the city so
Say for example when we’re thinking about transport in Glasgow which is a really really key sector in terms of both ecological impact but also the opportunities that it offers for inclusion um these definitions can give us a sense of what we need to consider and think about um which includes
Reminding us of the things we don’t want to Overlook um especially in that global social lens um if we are trying to come up with a really truly holistic approach to transport in Glasgow um so it just gives us a a more systems focused view on particular issues that we can start
To explore um from more than one place at once and try and make sure that those synergies are not forgotten or wasted um and it’s also so it’s also been really useful we found in working with stakeholders to consider possible co- benefits or tradeoffs um which is another really important component of
Systems thinking there’s an example here on the screen just about uh one of the Gallant work packages and City priorities which is to increase uh Community scale renewable energy in the city um and although it will ultimately be down to like a the city’s de Democratic process is um to decide where
Certain tradeoffs might be acceptable or unavoidable what this framework does is highlight where if we make choices about how we Implement certain strategies or aim to reach priorities in a way that does try to minimize those negative consequences um we can actually design actions and interventions that are making the most possible progress
Towards thriving in all form four lenses um by our actions on just one specific policy area so we found that really helpful in the workshops in bringing up that kind of interconnected thinking and and understanding those uh co- benefits um and negative consequences that can often happen when we keep our Focus too
Local um or siloed or separate so that’s been just a really quick whiz through some of what we’ve done and how we see hopefully being applied and used in practice we’ve got a vision to to work towards um we’ve got a lot of buying across the system which
Agrees that these goals are what we should be aiming for where we should be trying to get to um in terms of our next steps we are officially launching these definitions and Publishing a report about our process next week uh on on November 22nd uh and we have the Gallant
Program and the thriving cities initiative which are both ongoing and these next steps will be around how we operationalize some of these definitions at the right scale and in a way that might get us closest to that whole system transformation and total shift in the way we View and design our economic
Processes so that they take us closer to that thriving balance uh which is so important um for what we need to achieve going forward so I’ll just leave it there thank you so much for listening um I really hope that you you might want to keep up with with our journey and please
Do get in touch if if you wish and I hope to be uh yeah back back on one of these calls soon to hear how everybody else is is getting on with us well I know we don’t have time for Q&A today but uh please do feel free to get in
Touch with any questions that you might have thanks very much thank you so much Ana and and and yes we have such a such a reg unpacked schedule today so no time for Q&A but we’ve shared all the links in the chat and a lot of what a Glasgow
Has been working on is available on deals platform at at donut economics uh.org and thank you for sharing uh for sharing the the experience and for highlighting the need for systems working and thinking if we are going to tackle the social and ecological crisis and the possibility to use the four
Lances framework as an entryway towards systemic ways of of thinking so I’ll I’ll pass on quickly to our our final speaker for today um and that’s Casper good to see you Casper so Casper guler yansen is a sustainability Pioneer architect and writer he has recently
Joined the dark side his words as a real estate developer and co-founder of home do Earth with the aim to make people and Planet positive homes and he’s one of the co-authors of the recently co-editors of uh this big collaborative effort recently launched uh Donut for Urban Development manual and toolkit so
He’ll share a bit about the uh that work and using the four lens as a way as a entry point to work within a sector specifically the Urban Development sector so Casper floor is yours thank you Leonor one one question it looks like do you have a live audience are you
In a in a room with a live audience yes I’m in London try and turn your camera that’s a good idea I’ll turn the camera and Spotlight Spotlight the audience as well there okay very good no thank you so much for um for this opportunity I’m I’m gonna reduce my
Input for for 10 minutes uh to I I’ll talk for 10 minutes about this uh this book that uh we we co-developed with with deal and um and it’s about how to practice uh the donut economics in an urban environment for um a real estate developer as myself for example I think
Basically that was the need for me to engage with this is that um I think it’s very important to be able to practice um uh in order to make impact uh so how do uh do I practice and how do anyone in the uh construction sector or the real
Estate uh industry how do we practice uh the donor so so that was uh the the motivation for me I I will do these um slides rather fast um but um uh me I’m a architect uh I have started a company uh that is called home. Earth and we want to do
People and Planet positive homes so so really how do we uh act within uh the planetary boundaries and how do we do that uh with a social uh agenda uh affordability liability uh community and and and and we have been so lucky to work with deal
Um the extended deal team on on taking donor out economics and also with uh the senior scientist from Stockholm resilience Center who are behind the planetary boundaries kind of the outside of the donut and a lot of other brilliant uh uh Team members universities advisors to make the donut
For Urban Development and uh I think it’s two and a half weeks ago we launched it on deals platform and very happy to have Leonor and Kate U endorse it and also um what we launched then I will try to make a warp speed uh presentation of the the book itself it
It kind of unfolds so when you unfold it uh it it shows that we have the original donut we have a donut for urban development that is very slightly adjusted I’ll go into that later and then we have a social wheel and an ecological wheel with a lot of impact
Areas and a lot of ways to assess and practice the donut uh it’s not only me we have been 20 uh co-authors uh on the book and also a lot of uh experts and addition and a lot of organizations I would like to hire like one person that
Is Danny who uh should joined us today she’s unfortunately ill uh my my co-editor in crime um so the donuts um came to life through a series of physical workshops this one in London with deal this one in Stockholm with uh Stockholm resilience Center and this one
Was the official uh launch in Copenhagen physical and then we had the digital launch a few weeks ago everything is online available uh you can download both the donut in English Eng and in Danish but also in support to that scientific publication that goes deep with the different focuses on um
Allocation on life cycle assessment on the social Foundation um and also tools and workshop materials so if you look at this donut we’re being very true to uh to to um the the you can say the original donut however we do um have on the outside uh on the ecological ceiling
We do a dual split we focus on climate stability and we focus on healthy ecosystem that is a point that we got aware of working with Stockholm resilience Center out of the planetary boundary limits uh you uh have a core boundary on climate change and a core climate or core um boundary on
Biodiversity the social Foundation we also split into four areas of connected inclusive Equitable and responsible um in order to align the you can say the social Dimensions with those also of the EU coming EU tonomy so going into like three chapters uh the social Foundation this is the
Social wheel as we like to refer to it so each of uh the original Dimensions from the donut for example that of housing has been split into um uh local uh impact areas affordable housing high quality homes and then also Global impact areas um so so how do what
We uh do when we build AFF of course locally and globally inspired by the Fall lenses framework obviously I think this is a major point of the donut and also of the book that we need to consider both the local and the global impact of our actions the book also provides examples
Of how this has been practiced with um focusing on on on various areas this is some social housing um or it’s actually private housing and social housing context that is uh creating uh strong neighborhoods and also um integration of of different um um sort of residents here is the
Ecological ceiling for Urban Development again we are then uh taking a resolution on uh you can say the um the the outside of the donut and breaking it into 48 different areas that each have a local and Global impact so you could again say what what do we do
With climate stability it’s about making a carbon budget um and and so on and so forth again um example this is a newly erected uh wooden um type house here in copen again trying to say how far you actually can come how low ecological footprint can you achieve
By uh working on Commercial um in the commercial context about uh the donut I think you often forget the inside or the in between so the what’s the space we need to uh move within and I like the way the deal is is challenging business thinking we need to move from a a
Traditional and challenge that ab and B challenge the hotel industry but they also have flip sides so fairbnb is challenging Airbnb so really uh the work made me aware of how can we move from an old thinking towards a new thinking how do we need to understand the purpose the
Networks the governance ownership and the financial structures of the companies that we engage with other the companies that we start up or collaborate with so in short that’s a donut uh for uh for open development book in order to make it very practical we also said well it’s about three
Things we need to have absolute carbon budgets we need to set biodiversity targets not just onside but offside and we need to have a a rich and transparent uh way to assess the social impact again locally and globally and um this is a screenshot from the database so there’s
An Excel file with these 96 impact areas and and 200 ways to assess them so again available for download either through the homepage of home. donut or Deal’s own website I guess Leonor if you can share that in the in um in the in the you can say in the thread of this
Dialogue and to end it off we also made a toolkit that enables uh you can say facilitates work shops how to assess the donut so this is about understanding the donut uh applying it to to your context and also uh to make specific actions uh
For for for you to actually act on uh on each and every Urban Development that you are in charge of I think I’ll I’ll leave it with this slide and uh and thank you very much thank you Casper thank you thank you so much for sharing that and again
This is an open- source resource and you can find it all in the chat in our platform and and you can buy the book as well and deep dive a bit into how to use the donut for Urban Development so with with that maybe you can stop um sharing
The screen uh Casper if you can yes it’s time it’s time to close our session I believe in the chat you’ll have uh info about what to what and how to join next here in person we can stay a bit more and so wishing everybody a happy Global
Donut day and bye for everybody here in London