ReImagined Futures

How do we finance systems change? “Systems change financing must be developed as a system that finances the three types of change - system experimentation, system redesign and system optimisation -, at the scale and with the ease required to address today’s multiple and unprecedented crises. … It requires taking a systems change approach to financing, itself.” In this piece, Steve Waddell and Friedemann Polzin analyse systems change and the financing mechanisms that each type of change requires, from private capital to public sector capital and philanthropic capital. https://lnkd.in/exB5JWMq #systemschange #finance #systemicinvestment

Working on our systems map on #water and in this deep dive we are learning so much about the benefits of Nature-Based Solutions. Not everything is trees and beavers🌳🦫 This analysis from the Pacific Institute, #CEOWaterMandate and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) highlights the key challenges in scaling Nature-Based Solutions (NBS): - There seem to be shortcomings in the currently available approaches and mechanisms to scale NBS implementation; - It appears there is not yet consensus among existing approaches on how to properly account for NBS benefits accrued over time; - There are technical, governance and financial barriers which limit NBS implementation at scale. A suggested first step to overcome this is “to provide more clarity and a systematic and standardised approach to account for the multiple benefits of NBS for watersheds in a way that builds the business case for investing in and implementing NBS at scale”. 🔗Access the report here:https://lnkd.in/dY7bsBH #naturebased #solutions #sustainability

🥁 Social Impact Internship 🥁 ReImagined Futures is looking for a passionate systems thinker for a 6-month remote internship starting in February 2025. Key Highlights: ☀️ Work on cutting-edge systems maps for environmental and social challenges - e.g. water, energy, biodiversity, food, healthcare and childcare 🌍 Opportunity to work on projects with local governments, global networks and impact investors 💻 Fully remote (EU residents only) Ideal Candidate: - At least beginner systems thinking knowledge - Committed to systemic change - Strong English skills (Spanish a plus) - Eager to learn and grow Apply by 31 Dec 2024: https://lnkd.in/dhJCKHHt #SystemsThinking #Socialimpact #Internship #Sustainability

One of our favourite projects this year has been our collaboration with EPIM (European Philanthropic Initiative for Migration) on migration governance. We supported them with systems analysis and design for their new strategy. A couple of weeks ago, we also facilitated a leverage pathways session at the EPIM Forum. It was an incredible two-day event filled with active participation and meaningful engagement! Also resulted in what Carlotta Cataldi called “the most beautiful floor iceberg model” (pictures prove it) :)  It is always a pleasure for ReImagined Futures to be part of this systemic work! Thank you, EPIM (European Philanthropic Initiative for Migration), Brian Blankinship, Paz Costantini and Viliana Dzhartova💫 #systemsthinking #transformation #migration  #migrationgovernance

🎓 It is exciting to see that more and more universities are starting to teach systems thinking! Our friends at University of Exeter are looking for a Lecturer in Systems Thinking, a super opportunity for academics in our network! Deadline is 4.12.2024, apply now - https://lnkd.in/eRJPt_S3 #jobs #systemsthinking #academicjobs #sustainability Maya Vachkova Jacqueline Bagnall Guillermo Casasnovas Joss Colchester Suzanne Jenkins Rosina Malagrida Federica Massa Saluzzo Ivo Velitchkov Diana Velasco Johan Schot Toban Shadlyn

We love working on causal-loop diagrams but we are acutely aware that those are just tools. As Daniel Christian Wahl says, systems thinking is a lot more than a set of tools, it is “an art form of creatively dancing with complexity that has the power to transform us and our world”. #systemsthinking #complexity #transformation

💧The Global Commission on the Economics of Water advocates for valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good. In their recent analysis, the ecological markers of water stress and their socioeconomic impact, and illustrates the key role that #water plays in the economy. Five missions are suggested to address the most important and interconnected challenges of the global #watercrisis: 1️⃣ Launch a new revolution in #foodsystems; 2️⃣ Conserve and restore natural habitats critical to protect green water; 3️⃣ Establish a circular water economy; 4️⃣ Enable a clean-energy and AI-rich era with much lower water intensity; 5️⃣ Ensure that no child dies from unsafe water by 2030. 🔗Check the amazing visuals of their interactive website and read the report here: https://lnkd.in/d7RneUrt #EconomicsOfWater #WaterSecurity

A few weeks ago we completed our forth agrifood systems map and, of course, soil health came up as the highest leverage point. Here is why: “Essentially, all life depends on the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.” — Charles E. Kellogg, USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1938. Thank you, UN Biodiversity and FAO, for this visual! #soil #sustainability #systemsthinking

We absolutely love these collaborative repositories and this networked peer #learning approach!🤓 Our entire team has taken Acumen Academy’s Systems Practice course, Kumu is our absolutely favourite playground, and we host regular team learning sessions on different #systemsthinking and #systemschange tools. What do you have to add to this joint resource list?📝

The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School. 🌐What stops our institutions from transforming? Greed? Capitalism? Inequality? ❓But what actually is capital? Why are only some objects, ideas, and promises to pay protected by law? What is it that transforms them into wealth generating assets? 💡Katharina Pistor explains how, behind the closed doors of private attorneys, capital is created — and why this little-known activity is one of the main drivers of wealth supremacy, a term coined by Marjorie Kelly. ✨ "The Code of Capital" is one of the most influential legal books in recent years. In the comment section: Explore the ways debt, complex financial products, and other assets are selectively coded to protect and reproduce private wealth. https://lnkd.in/dfXtsjjD #capital #systemicchange #wealth #systemchange #planetaryboundaries