‘Designs for Change’ by Dr. Katy Fox of Mycelium

The ‘Critical Change’ Talk Series:

Katy founded Mycelium, the ecosocial design agency in 2019. She writes that her aim with Mycelium is to focus her livelihood on permaculture design, regenerative living and community resilience capacity-building for the benefit of all – for the time beyond our self-terminating civilisation.

Dr. Katy Fox is a social anthropologist, community organiser, teacher and ecosocial designer. She is passionate about social and cultural transformation. Her doctoral research concerned the impacts of EU agriculture policy on the lives of subsistence farmers in Romania (2006-2010). Her follow-up research in Romania (2009) brought to the fore environmental questions and she has since worked with permaculturists and new types of environmental grassroots movements. While her earlier interests were focused around the economy and power relations, her current work is concerned with systemic, deliberative paths for desired social change and the interconnections between ecosystems and social systems. After living in Scotland and Romania for a decade, she moved back to her native Luxembourg (Beckerich) in 2010 and founded CELL, the Centre for Ecological Learning Luxembourg, a non-profit organisation that serves as a laboratory for sustainable living, which she led until 2018. Katy still conducts various trainings for CELL and serves on the board of TERRA, a transition and education co-op for resilient and regenerative agriculture.

Katy will be speaking with us about her take on ‘Designs for Change’. Above is a picture of the Äerdschëff (an ecological Earthship-inspired building) which she will talk about building.