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Taking Stock: A foundation for future housing strategy.

We challenge persistent myths about the housing crisis and highlight ways to meet housing need within environmental limits. First output for 🏠Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth🌍.

Read a 10 min summary: tinyurl.com/mu59kb29

We are excited to share that we have now finalised the dates for the 2-day Workshop and would like to invite you to register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1343879733...

Untangling Complexity: How Can We Better Support Collaboration on Complex and Interconnected Problems? Workshop in Berlin on Many-to-Many

Untangling Complexity: How Can We Better Support Collaboration on Complex and Interconnected Problems? open.substack.com/pub/darkmatt...

We organised a seminar talk by Chloe Treger from @darkmatterlabs.org on TreesAI. Treger shared real-world examples, use of technology modelling and data visualisation as ways to recognise natural infrastructure to be essential for urban well-being and economic growth.

A Fragile Weave: The Promise of Planetary Supply Chains in an Era of Geopolitical Rupture Entangled Futures Salon series - Planetary Supply Chains - 24 March 2025

Come join us as we discuss planetary supply chains and futures in a moment of geopolitical rupture. This is part of the @darkmatterlabs.org Planetary Civics Inquiry.

Hosted at #MiddlesexUniversity with an amazing panel lined up.

Come talk, come listen, come think with us.

#PlanetaryFutures

Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth: Affordability within planetary boundaries New pathways to provide affordable homes within environmental limits

Can we create decent, affordable housing within planetary boundaries?
Announcing the launch of a new collaboration between @iipp-ucl.bsky.social, Arup, @darkmatterlabs.org and Rising Tide buff.ly/gKjjNBl

🌍 Homes that Don't Cost the Earth (#HDCE).

IIPP, along with Arup, @darkmatterlabs.org , and Rising Tide, is excited to announce the launch of a new project to reorient the UK housing strategy towards the goal of truly affordable homes for all.

🔗Learn more about the project here: buff.ly/gKjjNBl

Patricia Piccinini and Rosi Braidotti in conversation: Planetary Civics and Regenerative Futures YouTube video by RMIT Culture

The first launch event of @darkmatterlabs.org Planetary Civics Inquiry is starting now!

www.youtube.com/live/ZQtyehL...

This thought-provoking conversation between artist and philosopher about the interconnectedness of all life.

Er - good morning!

Rosi Bradotti is shown in a window on the bottom-right. A NASA data visualisation of the earth is shown on screen. It is our blue green orb, but surrounded by an astonishing amount of trash objects orbiting our atomosphere.

No wonder extraterrestrials haven't visited us...

An amazing talk this morning (evening in Melbourne) by Rosi Braidotti as part of RMIT University and @darkmatterlabs.org #PlanetaryCivics launch

#TrashPlanet #ThinkWeMust #DataViz

FreeHouse Tkaronto Can reimagining our relationship with the house create space for Indigenous Reconciliation?

FreeHouse Tkaronto: how might reimagining our relationship with the house, beyond property, create space for #IndigenousReconciliation? Our proposal for Toronto’s Ravines.

provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/freehouse-tk...

We strive to achieve significant milestones towards planetarity as a frame of action, influencing public policy, creating a governance framework for complex ecosystems, and building a planetary civics alliance for a new knowledge economy and more regenerative futures www.planetarycivics.net/launch

Designing an identity for an emergent initiative like Planetary Civics (www.planetarycivics.net) requires not giving answers but a visual language that enables questions. I designed a variable font at Dark Matter Labs, which is in constant flux between disorder and order, question and answer.

Secure your spot by registering at www.planetarycivics.net/launch

It all begins on the 26th of February, 2025 with a 12-hour global launch event. The launch event will feature a series of distributed intercontinental sessions spanning four time zones. Further details, including the full itinerary, will be shared shortly.

In the next 10x100 days, we strive to achieve significant milestones towards planetarity as a frame of action, influencing public policy, creating a governance framework for complex ecosystems, and building a planetary civics alliance for a new knowledge economy and more regenerative futures.

Founded by Dark Matter Labs, Politics for Tomorrow, RISD Center for Complexity, and RMIT University.

Poster for launch with similar text on the post

Announcing the Launch of the Planetary Civics Inquiry! We are thrilled to introduce the Planetary Civics Inquiry(PCI) an alliance of researchers, educators, policymakers, designers, and practitioners committed to transforming the structures and processes that shape how we govern our entangled planet

Co-Founding Programme Lead – RZ Accelerator Start Date: March 1st 2025Special Note: This role can be structured as a job share and we allow individual as well as team applications.An Unconventional InvitationWe’re prototyping a different kind o...

Special Note: This role can be structured as a job share, and we welcome both individual and team applications.

Think this might be you? Or know someone who fits?

Apply here: app.beapplied.com/apply/x1dgac...

The RZ Accelerator is designed to address this gap, empowering fund managers to drive change across critical domains like water, energy, and social infrastructure.

📅 Start Date: March 1, 2025

• A collaborator who builds trust, fosters accountability, and inspires shared commitment.

🌍 Why Now? The global challenges we face require new approaches to capital allocation.

🌱 Who We’re Looking For:
• A strategic leader with deep expertise in regenerative economics and system transformation.
• A maker who thrives on bringing bold ideas to life and pushing beyond traditional boundaries.

The RZ Accelerator is looking for a bold, visionary co-founder to join us in driving the systemic transformation necessary for the next economy. Together, we’ll accelerate the emergence of new capital allocators and next-generation portfolios designed to restore, regenerate, and reimagine our world.

Co-Founding Programme Lead – RZ Accelerator Start Date: March 1st 2025Special Note: This role can be structured as a job share and we allow individual as well as team applications.An Unconventional InvitationWe’re prototyping a different kind o...

𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗖𝗼-𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗭 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿
Are you ready to help shape the next generation of capital allocation?

Apply here: app.beapplied.com/apply/x1dgac...

Join us on January 23 for a compelling hybrid event exploring Urban Climate Transitions: Questions of Justice and Pathways to Commoning: tinyurl.com/UrbanClimate...

Featuring: Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, PhD + Dr. Shahrzad Enderle + @nadhahassen.bsky.social + Austin Gage Matheney + Prof. Wulf Daseking

Indy Johar on LinkedIn: Generative Democracy.. | 11 comments While many profound conversations are underway about the need for a European Digital Stack, this is a modest contribution reflecting on the work we’re engaged… | 11 comments on LinkedIn

Yep - we need total systemic change. I'm really inspired by the work of the @darkmatterlabs.org - Indy Johar has published some really interesting pieces on LinkedIn recently...

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Reimagining Finance To Regenerate Our Planet: Interview with Leon Seefeld, lead architect of Bioregioning Tayside's planned new Bioregional Financing Facility - Bioregioning Tayside Bioregioning Tayside’s latest and most ambitious project to date has been to begin working with Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs to build Scotland’s first Bioregional Financing Facility. Read our inte...

We are very excited to begin 2025 by advancing our plans to build a new Bioregional Financing Facility here in Tayside, led by Leon Seefeld of @darkmatterlabs.org. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/ychwtxfj

Perhaps because continuing to bury these inconvenient thoughts with busyness and self-justification is starting to feel slippery and insubstantial. A sickness we can’t quite identify but yearn to recover from.

These topics are not easy. In fact they are deeply uncomfortable. Why then do we, or might you, wish to engage with them?

This provocation is part of an ongoing conversation between Martin Lorenz and Emily Harris, centred on the role of design (and specifically Designers) in the context of an extractive economic system. A system that we are all complicit in yet which is systematically incompatible with life.

Branding is not just a term. This provocation is part of an ongoing conversation between Martin Lorenz and Emily Harris, centred on the role of design (and specifically…

𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰. 𝐀 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐀 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.

provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/branding-is-...