Your Name | Jonee Kulman Brigham |
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Cohort Assignment | Americas with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | To save time, I'm pasting my answer to a similar question asked in the pre-enrollment questionnaire. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I have multiple life roles, but as related to my work in the world, I am an architect/designer, artist, writer, systems transformation worker, and I often call myself a "paradigm worker," as I see paradigm work as key to systems change. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | To continue to learn to better collaborate / design for positive systems transformation. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Balance, less striving/pushing, more trusting the work together. |
5. And for professional growth? | I have gone through multiple evolutions of environmental design thought/frameworks in my career since the 80s. Energy efficient, earth friendly, environmentally responsible, high performance, sustainable, green, - now engaging with Regenerative. While sometimes used interchangeably, I am interested in the substantive difference in these models and the different approaches to these models. I am interested in developing professionally to continue exploring regenerative design as a way of seeing and practicing. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I've invested a great deal of time, and attention/focus to a career in sustainable design. I have chosen paths that allowed me to work at the edges I'm most interested in, where I have hoped to make impact. This has often, in the last 10 years meant I chose to forego job stability and competitive pay to work as a part time researcher and adjunct in Academia, because it was the most exciting, meaningful work. I've invested in my professional development, relationships, and reflection. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Earlier - Art, ceramics (folk approaches to design for use), Thinkers - Donella Meadows (particularly Places to Intervene in a System, and video talks), David Suzuki (Particularly The Sacred Balance), Christopher Alexander, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh (interbeing, particularly), Eco-Criticism, Geodesign (Carl Steinitz, and Geodesign community), Indigenous people I've met and lit I've read, Many more. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Humans are a species among many, belonging to the larger world, inherently called to be caring. |
Date Created | January 23, 2024 |