All The Change That Could Have Happened - Cameron Tonkinwise On The Necessity For Constant Hard Work

Today on the show is the first and second most popular guest to date - Cameron Tonkinwise. Making his third appearance, Cameron’s previous episodes - number 9 and 40 - equated to a gigantic jump in listenership as well as the number of places the show was getting picked up in. That I think says everything about Cameron - his career and work to date across design, academia and in practice is both unique and special. I’ve had the great pleasure and privilege to work a lot with Cameron over the last eight year since I first accosted him in a laneway at a conference, and few have been as influential on the way I think about the world and approach my work.

Cameron is a design professor at the University of Technology in Sydney, and is an international expert in design studies and transition design. He writes and speaks extensively on the power of design to drive systems-level change to achieve more sustainable and equitable futures. I’ve seen firsthand how influential and impactful he is in workplaces as well as when he’s speaking and presenting at different events and conferences.

I wanted to get Cameron back on the show as recently we held a Finding Nature supper club event exploring the issues and challenges of broad calls for systems change. So much in our society and economy requires substantial change - from our caring economy to decarbonisation and climate risk-driven adaptation to demeaning attitudes to women and a political economy dependent on destruction-inducing consumption of all things, all the time. This event explored how to even approach that topic - what does systems change even mean, how do you start, how do you try to do it. We chat about what came up that night, as well getting into case studies of work he and we have done seeking to be these system change influencers and advocates, the pitfalls and perils, as well as the surprising insights and glimpses of what really is possible.

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