Four Roundtable Discussions + Q&A
Each session will take the form of a 60 minute roundtable discussion involving all four guests followed by 30 minutes of Q&A with online participants. Each session will have a theme introduced by one of the panelists.
Glocal Regeneration – Healing the land, its people and its more-than-human communities through bioregional foodsheds. – Morag Gamble
Bioregional Economies and Subsidiarity – Enabling life to create conditions conducive to life. – Daniel Christian Wahl
Reindigenising for a Viable Future – Applying Earth-centric eco-cultural values for a post-growth world. – Chels Marshall
Re-inhabiting the Future – Can resource-predatory cities become catalysts of ecological regeneration? –Jason Twill
Roundtable Guests
Morag Gamble
Morag is a global leader of the permaculture movement for change, her work exemplifying the shift beyond sustainability, to regeneration. A community urban agriculture pioneer and award-winning edible landscape designer, for 25 years Morag has enabled urban communities around the world to create beautiful shared edible landscapes using a process she calls citizen design. The cofounder of the Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane and the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network, Morag studied Landscape Architecture at Melbourne University and has a Masters of Sustainability Education from Griffith University. As a Global Permaculture Ambassador, Morag has led programs in 22 countries and has taught in communities and universities around the globe – most recently at Schumacher College in the UK and a Food Politics course at Griffith University. She sees the direct social and ecological impact of industrial farming on marginalised farming communities around the world – in Indonesia, India and most recently in East Africa – and works with urban farmers, school farmers, community gardeners, and educators designing and developing local food systems. Morag lives amidst an award-winning permaculture education garden at Crystal Waters on the headwaters of Mary River in Queensland, a UN recognised permaculture village.
Daniel Christian Wahl
Daniel is an international consultant and educator specialising in biologically-inspired whole systems design and transformative innovation. He is a biologist (University of Edinburgh and University of California), holds an MSc in Holistic Science (Schumacher College) and a PhD in Design (CSND, University of Dundee, 2006). Daniel has worked with local and national governments on foresight and futures, facilitated seminars on sustainable development for the UNITAR affiliated training centre CIFAL Scotland, consulted to companies like Camper, Ecover and Lush on sustainable innovation, and has co-authored and taught regeneration training courses for Gaia Education, LEAD International and various universities and design schools. He is a member of the International Futures Forum, a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), co-founder of Biomimicry Iberia, and brought Bioneers to Europe in 2010. Daniel lives on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca and currently works for Gaia Education and the SMART UIB project of the Universidad de las Islas Balears. Triarchy Press published his first book, Designing Regenerative Cultures, in 2016.
Chels Marshall
Chels is a leading Indigenous ecologist with extensive experience in cultural landscape management and design with over 27 years of professional experience in cultural ecology and environmental planning, design, and management within government agencies, research institutes, Indigenous communities, and consulting firms. She has worked on large-scale environmental projects and applied marine research in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Chels has previously worked as a Ranger with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (23 yrs) undertaking protected area management and research and projects relating to the recovery and conservation of protected species, cultural heritage and environmental land/seascapes. Chels has represented the Australian, US and New Zealand Governments at international meetings over the last 22 years developing national and international policy and strategy documents, and delivering practical solutions to challenging Indigenous issues in marine conservation, management and resource-utilisation. She has designed and co-ordinated successful intra indigenous mediation process regarding cultural heritage and conservation management issues and Aboriginal community facilitation processes for the preparation of comprehensive negotiating documents.
Jason Twil
With a career spanning over 20 years’ in urban development, Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. A globally recognised pioneer in innovation districts, alternative housing and regenerative urbanism, Jason’s work is informing the next generation of city making. His career experience includes mixed-use developments throughout New York City, the South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle and serving as Head of Sustainability and urban innovation strategist for Lendlease Development. As Director of Urban Apostles, Jason leads a property consulting firm specialising in equitable and regenerative growth strategies for cities and offering leading-edge urban solutions by working at the intersection of the sharing economy and the art of city making. Jason is a regular lecturer at multiple Australian and international universities and was appointed Innovation Fellow in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney from 2016-1018 where he led research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and property economics. He is a co-founder of the International Living Future Institute and originator of the Economics of Change project. In 2018, Jason founded and launched the City Makers’ Guild, an education, advocacy and research group promoting more equitable and inclusive cities.
