Walking Together: Linking the Melbourne and Indigenous Doughnuts

Join us for a special celebration that will bring the Melbourne Doughnut and the Country-Centred Circular Economy model (the ‘Indigenous Doughnut’) in relation with one another. 

This event marks the beginning of a journey of ‘walking together,’ using the two Doughnuts to guide our understanding of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge can come together towards a hopeful and thriving future.

The Melbourne Doughnut emerged as a way to conceptualise a ‘safe and just’ future for our city, where needs of people and planet are kept in balance; it has evolved into a City Portrait that includes data and stories to measure progress towards this future. 

The Indigenous Doughnut represents aligned objectives, but begins by centering Country and building out an understanding of human wellbeing based on this. It highlights the relational, dynamic aspects inherent in traditional knowledge of place.

Bringing the two models together represents a meaningful way of learning from their commonalities and respective aspirations, and understanding what it looks like to translate the frameworks into practice.

We will gather in person, outdoors, to pay respect to Country, share stories of the origins and potential of the two Doughnut models and explore the linkages between them. The event will be highly participatory, encouraging everyone to contribute to shaping what it means to walk together, both conceptually and practically. 

From this gathering, we will shape future workshops and projects that can help to demonstrate the intentions and aspirations of walking together in practice.

This event is hosted collaboratively by the Federation of Victorian Traditional Owners Corporations, Good Human, Regen Melbourne and RMIT University, with support from Sustainability Victoria. It is part of the Global Doughnut Days celebration coordinated by the Doughnut Economics Action Lab.

Please contact alison@regen.melbourne with any questions.  We hope to see you there!