Digital / cross-context

To explore the foundational research question: “What would an economy look like that prioritises humanity and the well-being of people?” and investigate how regenerative principles are embodied in practice by experts and practitioners

October 2022 – July 2024

Grounded theory approach using 12 unstructured, open-ended live audio conversations as LinkedIn events. Participants covered diverse contexts (e.g., community-based economy, post-growth metrics, technology). Real-time audience participation supported democratic knowledge production

Research initiators, hosts, and synthesis leads; convenors of practitioner knowledge and pattern recognition across diverse contexts

• reached +1,000 people from +60 countries and 7 continents over all conversations

• Surfaced patterns from real-world practice that point to new ways of understanding the economy

• catalysed the What Matters initiative as an emerging movement for regenerative transformation

• Showed regenerative economy as emerging from lived, diverse experiences rather than abstract principles

• highlighted that local and informal economies already embody regenerative values but are excluded by language and categorisation barriers

• advanced the view of the economy as relational and co-created, shaped by care and reciprocity; positioned narrative transformation as a lever equal in importance to structural change