Today, we are headed to a small village in the south of France to talk to Madelynn Martiniere about her work in designing, activating, and scaling open innovation ecosystems for a more equitable and sustainable future.

In our conversation Madelynn and I talk about the importance of finding community and belonging, what role technology can play in driving systemic change and what it means to design an ideal world.

Madelynn Martiniere is a global strategist and facilitator working with innovators, entrepreneurs and executives to design, activate, and scale open innovation ecosystems for a more equitable and sustainable future. She is currently Managing Partner at Armillaria, an ecosystems design lab working to co-create critical digital infrastructure for a more thriving world. An avid permaculturist, when not working on systems change, she can be found working in the garden.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

• How technology’s desire to simplify concepts impacts our ability to see interconnection and complexity
• Why we can’t enter a community looking to validate a hypothesis
• The tension in recognizing our locus of control
•  The challenges in wanting it done and wanting to be the one to do it

Learn More About ​​Madelynn Martiniere:

• Armillaria
• Twitter: @mmartiniere
• Connect with Madelynn on LinkedIn
• Design Principles for Systems Change: Cooperative
• Design Principles for Systems Change: Humanity-Centered

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• Website: www.socialventurers.com 
• Instagram: SocialVenturers
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Resources:

• Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker
• Sphaera
• Roxann Stafford
• Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, Arturo Escobar