Madeline Sides

@silvanajuri Looks awesome @silvanajuri ! Just downloaded and added to my to-read collection :)

So fortunate to have been part of this amazing collaboration on imagining the #futures of the high seas and their governance based on #NatureFuturesFramework 👉 Check the paper out!

Glad to be wrapping up the academic year by sharing out my work w/ 2 very different audiences: eco restorationists in CA and design researchers in Europe, hoping to show that these activities are related and should be in conversation 📝

Second, I'm leading a session of the CA Society for Ecological restoration conf this Sat., titled "Thinking Outside the Box" where I'll be sharing a talk about transition design and ecological restoration 🌳

Sharing my writing and research on design & ecological restoration in two venues this week : first up, virtual presentation on the ​Nature positive/Design for transformation track of @CumulusAsso Antwerp Conference (💻->🇧🇪) at 4:10 CET

"No care without proximity" - an idea author & designer Ezio Manzini uses to inspire design scenarios as shared at @cmudesign this week. Nice to spend some time in proximity with my fellow PhDs and our visitor Ezio!

Looking forward to delivering a lecture and workshop tomorrow with @fungfellows at UC Berkeley 🐻! We'll be discussing systems thinking, design, and wicked problems in to support their work designing innovations for conservation challenges 🌱

Get your African diasporic heirloom seeds from the newly launched Sistah Seeds collection, grown and curated by Amirah Mitchell. Supporting Black-owned businesses is one meaningful way to honor #blackhistory and #blackfutures month. @sistahseeds and sistahseeds.com

Hundreds of💰millions available in @CALFIRE grants for wildfire prevention, green schoolyards, & forest health in California - applications due Feb/March 2023. Coming right up and solicitations may not be open again for some time. Go! wildfiretaskforce.org/cal-fire-grant…

Wonderful 3 days camping & restoring oaks🌳with @KanyonLlc, @suddenoaklife and the Ecocamp Coyote community using #firemimicry -- just as the buzz from the weekend wears off, the poison oak sets in, a lingering reminder of the fun 💚

Bye Pittsburgh! A solid dose of academic chats, pierogis, fall foliage and PA midterm energy. Plus, met some great people in person for the first time. See you next time 🌉🥟🍁📓

Jokes from a @JohnFetterman canvassing effort today with @PADems : *volunteer gestures to a giant bag of PA apples* "An apple a day keeps Dr. Oz away" 🍎🍏 @tikicarlson and I sure do hope so! ✌️🗳

@suddenoaklife @KanyonLlc Looking forward to it, I'll be there! And I'm trying to help spread the word. Here's a short link for sign ups: bit.ly/3MqFZzo

Succession after/through disturbance at our local climbing spot (trails are officially open, though wouldn’t want to wander around here during a windstorm)

Went to Pittsburgh last week! Lovely to spend some time getting re-acquainted with the people and places of my PhD program @cmudesign and this fine city. Year 3, here we go🤓

Kind of delighted to learn there's a research group at my school called STRUDEL (Socio-Technical Research Using Data Excavation Lab) 👏 their office is the "pastry shop" well done @cmustrudel

Yesterday, I spent the morning doing #restoration work in the Caldor Fire 🔥 burn area near Meyers, CA. This work is about creation (of new trails) and destruction (of old trail infrastructure rendered dangerous by fires). Plus, found a mystery 🌻

@suddenoaklife Happy Birthday!

The joy of puttering around your house, checking in on your plants and rediscovering your belongings after a long trip away 🥹

@markcwalton @shared_assets @LandworkersUK @treesandpaint This is wonderful! Can you share more about how you define theories of change in this context and how you discerned these themes from a group? Fellow change theories researcher here 👋

@JuliSikorska It has been great so far! I’ll share w you any notes or if I write something

@sides_mad Oh damn, I almost signed up for that summer school! I hope it's great, would be curious to hear more about it!

Our classroom today for the lecture-based part of Cosmolocalism summer school in Kalentzi, GR. We are discussing critiques of William Morris’ “News from Nowhere”