Design + Love
Designing the Love Economy
One of the resounding messages that has emerged from across the political and economic spectrum -- from the Occupy movement to recent labour unrest to conversations happening around the kitchen tables across North America and beyond -- is the desire and need for an economic system that puts the values of people above profits and where human connection and relationships transcend personal gain.
Join us for the second in a series of panel discussions, hosted by The CSI Design Common, that examines current issues through the lens of design and uses design thinking to find actionable solutions.
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst St, Suite 404 (4th Floor)
For more info and to RSVP: designRSVP@socialinnovation.ca
"A Love Economy values the work of production, reproduction, and caring for human life alongside the natural world as the foundation on which the rest of the economy functions." - UNPAC, Women & The Economy
Be part of the discussion and solution alongside three guest speakers, who are helping to define and create this emergent Love Economy:
Arianne Shaffer is the curator, writer and collector for her project entitled Love Letters to a Friend. "For the past two years Arianne has been collecting love letters of all formats in varying mediums from friends and strangers.Through these intimacies it is clear that our world is in need of continual expressions of love and that those expressions are longing to be heard. Her project aims at opening the door for catharsis and encourages people to write, let go, and bring in the various forms of love available to us" (http://loveletterstoafriend.com). Listen to excerpts from some of these moving letters.
Michael Sacco is the founder and director of Chocosol, "a community of innovative and dynamic individuals engaged in a trans-local trading relationship that goes beyond mere commerce to intercultural dialogue and reciprocal relationship building." He "has been making natural, organic, and horizontally traded chocolate and drinking cocoa since 2007." His scholarly research and hands-on work with chocolate allows him to discuss the intrinsic value of chocolate from a cultural, historical and economic perspective (http://chocosol.posterous.com). Sample Chocosol's deliciously ethical chocolate.
This event is hosted by The CSI Design Common, a new space at the Centre for Social Innovation that aims to ignite, support and promote design for social innovation. Through programming, dialogue and professional development our members push the boundaries of design, social entrepreneurship, and inter-disciplinary collaboration.
http://socialinnovation.ca/space/design
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