UnSchool of Disruptive Design
Activating sustainability and systems change by design, we share content designed to support the transformation to a sustainable, circular future.
The hidden impacts of our decisions
View this email in your browser & share Hello Reader, In this week’s Interconnected, we have 5 perspectives on how decisions of all sizes have impacts—good, bad and unintended. Leyla is well-known for exposing unintended impacts, like in her 2013 TED talk and recent article on the hidden impacts of AI, as it's only once we uncover impacts that we can then make changes to address them. As humans, we are limited by our perceptions, which are impacted by our experiences, values, worldviews,...
Bio charging the bioeconomy
View this email in your browser & share Hi Reader, Our economy is made up of millions upon millions of different materials, many of which have been synthesized from originally natural inputs but end up having polluting, hazardous outcomes during their production and end of life. The issues with microplastics, for example, have been well publicized and occur in part because it’s normal for things to break down over time—in fact, everything in nature does that organically— but synthetic...
What if we get it right?
View this email in your browser & share Hey Reader, Whilst climate change is well and truly upon us, this is not the time to give up and assume that we are all toast. In fact, many scientists are pushing for us to think beyond the doom and gloom and look to legitimate actions that can truly avoid more significant climate change. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), "There is still time to limit climate change, but it requires immediate, rapid and large-scale...
"Change is constant": 2025 Updates from Leyla & The UnSchool Team
View this email in your browser & share Hey Reader, Ok, so, yeah. Things have really gotten real. We know the world is changing fast, and not necessarily in the direction those of us who care about a progressive and positive future would have hoped for. 2024 was the hottest year on record; wildfires and floods have devastated many parts of the world; gender rights, diversity and equity are all under threat. Still, 2024 was also the year in which we saw rapid advancements in the circular...
The science behind “new year, new you” 🧠
View this email in your browser and share Hi Reader, Another year is upon us and let’s face it—New Year, New You is the ubiquitous marketing message you’re likely being bombarded with to try and capitalize on the fresh start that a new calendar year offers. While it can be annoying to be confronted with this reminder everywhere we turn (especially when it’s messages that support hyper-consumption), there’s actually some pretty interesting science around how humans accept disruptions and adopt...
Activating sustainability and systems change by design, we share content designed to support the transformation to a sustainable, circular future.