Iris Andrews is a co-creator of New Constellations, which exist to help people imagine and create better, more beautiful futures (Twitter, LinkedIn). Her background is over 15 years in the climate movement, for instance at Greenpeace and Purpose, plus a decade's yoga teaching and creating Nature Enquiries at the Quadrangle Trust, which will help people explore their relationship with nature.
Iris expresses her passion about giving people back a sense of agency and, and a feeling that they can build and shape their own futures. She stalks about how, in her 20s, she thought that she had to shut down her creativity to be effective in creating change, but now has believes that, at its best, art is the most powerful tool in the tookbox. She feels privileged to be bringing her different personas (the 'alpha' operator and the artist) together in New Constellations.
One use of "f*cked".
Links
Nature Enquiries at the Quadrangle Trust, which will help people explore their relationship with nature.
Summaries fo the latest IPCC reports on Carbon Brief: WG1: the physical science, WG2: impacts, WG3: mitigation.
Iris mentions wayfinding. A friend of mine (not mentioned by Iris) has an approach of wayfinding that draws from her Samoan heritage.
More on New Constellations work in Barrow and Sheffield.
Timings
0:50 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?
15:13- Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?
18:00 - Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?
27:42 Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?
30:45 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?
Q6. Who would you nominate to answer these questions, because you admire their approach?
32:17 - Q7. Is there anything else important you feel you have to say?
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