| Your Name | Jonathan Fashanu |
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| Email Address | jonathan@studiodash.co.uk |
| Cohort Assignment | Spring 2023 Cohort A: Europe + MENA |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | To create better spaces for people to co-exist with the planet. I hope I can facilitate this through better design and construction methods that prioritise the development of place and contribute to the positive wellbeing of the planet. |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I see my role as an educator, a facilitator and an inventor. Inventor in the sense of coming up with methods to achieve my primary work. |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | To fully understand the principles around regenerative design and development and to grow a team that can put that into practice. |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Making meaningful connections, reducing my anxiety |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Team motivation and management, marketing or selling the concept, SuDs Design, Reusing existing structures/retrofit |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I have built a practice which has taken a lot of time and money to nurture so that I can become part of the dialogue around sustainability. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Policy, economics, systems thinking, architecture and sustainability. |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Humans are part of a complex organism and were meant to co-exist with nature. We exhausted a great deal of resources in our pursuit of technological solutions but we should now use that advantage to restore balance to the system. |
| Date Created | February 21, 2023 |