Sea Change Design Institute

The 35th conference begins 3/28! As usual, my high expectations will be exceeded. And the keynotes, panels, and conversations will embolden me. Why? Bioneers is a nexus where what I call “Design Consciousness” abounds: where people are intentionally co-creating transformations with humanity, nature, spirit, and time in life-revering flow.

For example: My blog post, "Fire, Ice, Prophesy” is about the 2023 panel: “Can Storytellers Help Save the World?” with Icelandic author, Andri Snær Magnason (On Time and Water), Keenan Norris (Chi Boy), and moderator, Laleh Khadivi. I asked the last question: “I'd like to deepen this conversation by looking at the relationship between place and being. Andri, you are from the island of extremes—fire and ice. How has the coldness of glacial absence and the heat of volcanic presence shaped your soul?”

Fire, Ice, Prophesy
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Photo credits, Left to right:
Fagradalsfjall volcano ©Brian_Emfinger
Odin and the Völva (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
Dead Ok (Okjökull) glacier by AFP/Nasa

Grief Cry is a poetic immersion into mourning and re-emergence into life. Grief is a liminal space of transformation. It’s where sorrow merges with the sacred and grief and grace co-exist in the same moment. The thing about grief is that numbing, suppressing, or avoiding it has paralyzing and often grave repercussions. But the inverse is also true, that grief explored and expressed serves as a powerful catalyst. Grief is knocking on our door. If we are to remember what being truly alive is, we had better open it.

I invite you to listen to your own grief cry or expand your awareness to hear our collective grief cries. Please share this. Someone you know is hurting right now. This just might show them that like humpback whales, after the dive comes the breach where we "send our heart-shaped plume of blessed breath out into the world."

https://seachangedesign.com/blog/grief-cry-2/

I'm thrilled to launch our new Sea Change Design master course! Already the cohort is realizing that the butterfly effect from each one of us is amplifying the sea change in consciousness that's occurring right now. We've entered the nexus of self, crisis, and life and we're using as both vessel and revelation to evolve a flourishing world. We're immersing together. We'll emerge inspired. I already am!

If you're interested in applying for the next cohort, message me. Meanwhile check out my blog post: Transforming Crisis into Consciousness at: www.seachangedesign.com

"Atmospheric rivers can grow to 2,000 miles long, 500 miles wide and two miles deep by the time they strike the western coasts of continents. An average AR brings far greater rainfall than a typical rain or thunderstorm in those parts of the world, transporting enough v***r to equal 25 times the flow rate of the Mississippi River where it pours into the Gulf of Mexico."

Better Atmospheric River Forecasts Are Giving Emergency Planners More Time to Prepare for Flooding Knowing when torrents of rain will strike can save property and lives

Spiraling flow.

Big Bubble Net in Antarctica Incredible cooperative behaviour. A large pod of Humpback whales in Antarctica team up and work together to trap krill in a net of bubbles before scooping th...

As a 2020 AIGA Fellow, I’m so excited to welcome this year's recipients at the celebrations! August de los Reyes (1970-2021), Emily Pilloton-Lam, Steve Jones, and Martin Venezky. Join us this Friday, Nov. 4th at the Herbst Green Room in SF to be inspired by these design luminaries and contribute to . Tickets are available at AIGASF.org.

The AIGA Fellow Award recognizes seasoned designers who advance excellence in design as a discipline, profession, and cultural force. The areas of leadership, reputation, education, and writing, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring a Fellow’s significant contribution; along with their noteworthy and positive impacts within their local or regional design community and local AIGA chapter. As the largest professional association of designers in the world, the American Institute for Graphic Arts advances the value and impact of design, locally and globally.

Check out all the AIGA SF Fellows back to 1999: https://lnkd.in/gX7iJt5G

Let's pause to acknowledge and appreciate our planetary life support system. Check out the recording of the United Nation's 2022 event: Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean. Events from prior years are also available, along with the declaration, overview, and history of this critically important celebration focused on our blue planet.

Join us in celebrating the Sea Change Design Institute's 7th anniversary today too! This makes 22 years of Sea Change Design at work in lives, organizations, and the world. www.seachangedesign.com

Our intention:
How is the Sea Change Design Institute co-creating life-revering flow with conscious clients to presence evolutionary potential?

About - United Nations World Oceans Day In celebration and support of the life and livelihood that the ocean sustains, UN WOD 2021 will feature keynotes, panel discussions and presentations that spotlight biodiversity, latest oceanic discoveries, the interconnectivity between the ocean and its ecosystems, and more.

It's . I don't know about you, but when I see these images of Mother Earth's flowing life blood, a deep ache begins to resonate within my body.

Check out the world's river watersheds, mapped in stunning detail by Hungarian cartographer, Robert Szucs, who offers us a very different way of relating to these living treasures. There's lot more eye-opening maps at Grasshopper Geography

"Szucs is not just a theoretical map enthusiast, but also a practical one. He tries to move to a different country every few months, “donating” his mapmaking skills to worthy causes. He’s worked with archeologists on St. Eustatius, an island in the Caribbean, with marine biologists in Alaska, and for an orangutan conservation programme on Borneo, among other destinations."

The world's watersheds, mapped in gorgeous detail Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.

Neri Oxman@Neri Oxman speaks about "Nature x Humanity" on Long Now Talks!

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes. —Neri Oxman

Register on Eventbrite for the Long Now Talks livestream on Feb 16 at 7:00pm PT! Or go to https://longnow.org/ideas/02021/11/10/nature-x-humanity/

Neri Oxman's emergent design philosophy called Material Ecology exemplifies what we call "Design Consciousness." She co-creates with nature, humanity, spirit, and time in an eternal flow that generates infinite transformations in which all existence can thrive.

"An architect, scientist, engineer and inventor, Neri Oxman has led the creation of scientific research and technologies with an emphasis on integrative design across scales and disciplines." https://oxman.com/

"This talk is presented in conjunction with Neri Oxman's new exhibition at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Encompassing 40 installations and artworks, the exhibition illuminates her design practice, founded to advocate for environmental health and to "resonate with nature, not against it.”

Working at the intersection of technology and biology, architect and designer Neri Oxman is calling for a fundamental shift in the way we design and construct the built environment—to one that aligns with principles of ecological sustainability. Oxman and her team draw on multiple scientific fields to invent new manufacturing practices that grow rather than assemble. Oxman advocates for advancing a new kind of ecology in which the assembly line is replaced by environmentally informed multi-functional materials, products and buildings: a Material Ecology. This emergent field of Material Ecology presents new opportunities for design and construction that are inspired, informed, and engineered in collaboration with Nature."
—The Long Now Foundation

Neri Oxman - Nature X Humanity Nature x Humanity

By now, this is a design tradition! I'm really looking forward to presenting Born To Create at San Jose State University this evening. It's always stimulating to engage people in finding the source of their creativity—and invite them to co-design a life-sustaining world. We need all the help we can get!

Check out our meditative manifesto on creativity: http://blog.seachangedesign.com/born-to-create-part-1-life/

At the opening keynote, I'm giving a poetic design provocation at the Pune Design Fest in India with Uday Dandavate, Founder and CEO of SonicRim. Imagine two Designer-Poets asking: "How can we use design to engage in the profound nature of paradigm-shifting and the pragmatic work of problem-solving?"

We have endless opportunities to respond to economic, social, and environmental crises—and the separation and wounding within the human heart. In our collective imagination, design creates relationships with all life, serving as both vessel and revelation.

For the past several months Uday and I have been engaging in a dialogue about the evolution of consciousness at the intersection of poetry and design. We'll take this dialogue online at www.punedesignfestival.org.

I am thrilled to be invited to speak at the Pune Design Festival in India. My friend, Uday Dandavate, Founder and CEO of SonicRim, and I will be giving a poetic design provocation for the opening keynote. Imagine 2 Designer-Poets in conversation about the pragmatic and profound.