What if we could unearth for humanity the most enduring source of human knowledge on the planet – Indigenous systems thinking — and fuse it with the best of modern knowledge and technology? What if we could bake in more relational, expansive, nature-based design into how we approach our lives and work, and solve our biggest challenges? 

 On our last episode of the reMAKERS for 2023, we chat to Jack Manning Bancroft about a values system revolution.  Jack’s spent his career tackling inequity through connection, as the founder and CEO of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, AIME; and co-architect of a new ‘network of networks’ and digital nation, IMAGI-NATION. 

He talks to us about not only about IMAGI-NATION and its transformative mission, but why seeing the problems is not enough. “There’s not many people who write the next chapter. I want to live there,” he says.  And with new tools and opportunities to get involved ranging from Joy Corporations to Imagination Labs, a feature film and so much more — you may well find yourself eager to join him. 

Jack is a graduate of The University of Sydney and Stanford University,  a former NSW Young Australian of the Year, and author of books for children and adults. He is the youngest person in Australian history to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate (from the University of South Australia), and is currently an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University with the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab.

SHOW NOTES

Things and people we mention

AIME on Australian Story 

IMAGI-NATION welcome video

Hoodie Economics: Changing our system to value what matters, by Jack Manning Bancroft

Explainer on Web 3 

Reframe It, created by Bobby Fishkin

The Other Others podcast with Tyson Yunkaporta

Things you can do

Read Hoodie Economics (link above)

Check out AIME and IMAGI-NATION (links above), learn more, apply for a visa to get involved.  

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This episode of the reMAKERS was recorded from the lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people, in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, and THE LANDS OF THE Dharawal people in greater Wollongong, NSW.  We honour the Traditional Owners of these lands and waters, and pay our respect to Elders past and present.