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Doughnut As A Compass was compiled in May 2024, bringing together our experimentation, learning and application of the Doughnut and Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth over the past 6 years.
Orientating us towards ecologically safe and socially just futures, we have taken an exploratory, participatory and creative approach to activating the frameworks, tools and questions that the Doughnut offers in as many convivial, dynamic, rigorous ways as possible with many people in their places.
This has included working with Kate Raworth’s Seven Ways To Think Like A 21st Century Economist as published in Doughnut Economics, and both Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL)’s Four Lenses framework and Five Layers of Organisational Design ****tool in a range of ways; from analysing Radical Precedents Case Studies to ‣.
The intersections between the polycrisis and the built environment presented in 3ºC Neighbourhood underpinned why the Doughnut continues to be a useful and critical framework for guiding us through multifaceted, entangled, complex realities.
The publication of Doughnut for Urban Development: A Manual by EFFEKT and Home.Earth in June 2023 became a key bridge to translating the Doughnut into our built environment enquiries, and continues to be an important tool to support the many layers of regenerative (re)design required, from materiality, supply chains and construction processes, to governance models, ownership structures and financial mechanisms.
These connections are active and alive throughout our design principles and design methodology for Neighbourhood Public Square, as outlined in the Physical Infrastructure Design chapter of this proposal, including how we can design, measure and understand the social-ecological co-benefits we are able to generate together.
We recognise rational logic and frameworks are not the only way forward, but must continue to be combined with our journeys so far and adjacent work to bring these ideas off the pages in embodied and intuitive ways, starting from where we are. In our next steps towards establishing an outcomes framework, we draw inspiration from the pioneering work of the Cornerstone Indicators shared in 2023, led by Emily Harris at Dark Matter Labs in collaboration with Samhällskontraktet.
The Doughnut now takes up its place as a multi-dimensional compass at the heart of Neighbourhood Public Square as regenerative- and distributive-by-design neighbourhood civic infrastructure, as we share our process and findings so far in the open, and prepare to take the next steps together.
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This chapter brings together our experimentation, learning and application of the Doughnut and Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth over the past 6 years, orientating us towards ecologically safe and socially just futures.
Since co-creating the first Neighbourhood Doughnut Portrait of Place and hosting learning journeys with peers from around the world 2020—2022, our practice has continued to evolve, exploring social-ecological land contracts, regenerative building design, and impact frameworks for deep demonstration in our homes, streets and neighbourhoods.
The Doughnut now takes up its place as a multi-dimensional compass at the heart of Neighbourhood Public Square as regenerative- and distributive-by-design neighbourhood civic infrastructure, as we share our process and findings so far in the open, and prepare to take the next steps together.
Read the Doughnut As A Compass chapter in full:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pf6-X9BOQAKGSZ9SGbPtWRzeHK-KmjmO/view