Join Steph Beck, Parul Jagdish, Professor Song and Professor Death from AIME for an introduction to Indigenous Systems Knowledge, the Seven Circles of Design & Inquiry and to experience a little bit of imagination.

Together we'll explore the process of coming back to right relationships - within yourself, with other humans around you, and with all the other species-kin we share our precious planet with. 


AIME collaborate with TACSI as Indigenous Systems Knowledge Partners of the National Futures Initiative.

Seven Circles of Design and Inquiry

Informed by AIME's 20 years of social innovation, living systems and ancestral knowledges, from the Australian continent and beyond.

  • 1: Death
    Death helps get us out of culture, releases us from competition and helps us orientate with everyone.

  • 2: Art
    Art and imagination help move energy, and people through creativity.

  • 3: Improv and Kolab
    Making and creating together helps build trust and understanding with others, through play.

  • 4: Unlikely Connections
    Making and creating together helps build trust and understanding with others, through play.

  • 5: Non-Human Knowledge
    Learning from Country and creatures can teach us how and what to design.

  • 6: Return to Water
    Connecting to water as a life-force helps us remember our relation to life.

  • 7: Tools
    Sharing resources freely for all to stimulate positive change and enable shared knowledge systems.

About your hosts

Stephanie Beck

IMAGI-NATION Ko-Founder and {University} Vice Chancellor, AIME

Stephani Beck is a Wongatha Ngadju woman from Western Australia and the current Vice Chancellor of IMAGI-NATION {University}. Steph is currently playing a lead role in shepherding the IMAGI-NATION Platform, she is an artist and a custodian of knowledge who serves as a translator to the Professors, the systems change projects and toolmakers within the network. Steph’s core focus is exploring avenues to centre Indigenous Systems Thinking in all aspects of design, development and implementation through impact and storytelling.

Professor Song & Professor Death

AIME

Professor Song (left) is a frequent collaborator with Stephanie Beck, sharing wisdom on creativity and art making. Professor Death (right) is a frequent collaborator with Parul Jagdish to lead contemplations on death.

Parul Jagdish

IMAGI-NATION Ko-Founder and Head of Impact, AIME

Parul is a Gondi-Khatri man fashioned along the lines of Malala, Mandela & Gandhi. PJs life and work is rooted in the wisdom traditions of India, that acknowledge the unity & diversity of our world-family - humans & more-than-humans. His experience includes prestigious university scholarships, working with corporates, politicians, as a not-for-profit board director, making movies, co-founding social change movements and living in ashrams. At AIME he works around the world building partnerships, and a global systems-change Indigenous-led movement spanning 52+ countries creating a fairer world using imagination & mentoring.

"We want to put Indigenous Systems Knowledges at the front of the design queue, so we can all return to the right relations and unlock our pathways to the future."

Stephanie Beck and Parul Jagdish, AIME

Sounds interesting?

Join us on Tuesday 18 November

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