What if governance was printed on risograph, not policy paper? The zines are not side projects — they’re governance in another form. Across 3 editions (and counting), these illustrated, irreverent publications bring speculative design, policy critique and poetic systems thinking into the streets. They’re part fieldwork, part provocation, part public pedagogy — a way of building worlds that don’t yet exist, through the fragments we carry now. Approach • Wrote, illustrated and self-published a three-part zine series on governance, democracy and ecological imagination • Integrated research from climate policy, feminist theory, participatory tools and personal experience • Distributed online and physically — in community centres, conferences, and bike baskets Impact • Reached hundreds of readers across multiple continents and disciplines • Used in workshops, learning programmes and university curricula • Laid conceptual foundations for tools like The Decision Wheel and projects like Car-Free Sundays • Offered a “soft infrastructure” for systems change — storytelling that seeds strategy
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