Rebecca began her career working for the Aotearoa/New Zealand government, where she worked as a Housing policy analyst and as a Private Secretary for the Associate Minister of Housing. She then went on to complete MA and PhD in urban design at the Joint Centre for Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University, and undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London. During her fellowship she focused on a project called Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging, exploring “what indigeneity has come to mean in particular places and at key moments over the last several decades, and what kind of cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic issues are negotiated within its canvass”.

Rebecca is currently a Senior Lecturer, Urbanism at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Architecture where her research addresses a wide range of important issues in the built environment. In particular she devotes her time to topics of Decolonising Aotearoa New Zealand cities + Indigenous place identities, Māori housing and urban design, spatial justice, rangatahi (youth) involvement in built environment decision-making, urban and suburban spaces for community building and third places, and the politics of the production of place.

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Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.

His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day.

His newly published book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for a worldview based on connectedness that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.

He is founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute and writes topical articles exploring the deeper patterns of political and cultural developments at Patterns of Meaning: https://patternsofmeaning.com/

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My name is Mark Anielski. I'm the author of The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth (2007) and An Economy of Well-being: Common Sense Tools for Building Genuine Wealth and Happiness (2018). I'm also the President and Chief Well-being Officer of Anielski Management Inc. an economic-consultancy specializing in the economics of happiness and well-being. I am serving as Chief Well-being Economist with the Indigenomics Institute founded by Carol Anne Hilton. We are working on helping to create functional economies of well-being for First Nations across Canada and the world. I have been advising communities and countries since 2000 on integrating well-being analytics into conventional economic cost-benefit analysis, strategic planning, budgeting, and impact investment decision making.

I believe that most people aspire to live a life that brings them joy; a life full of well-being. I have developed an economic development agenda and practical tools (see www.anielski.com) to create a frame for life and work that starts with human experience and perceptional well-being and places flourishing well-being at the heart of every decision and every culture.

I look at each project from a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual perspective, creating systems of decision making engages us physically, emotionally, sublimely and sensorially. I help clients answer the fundamental question: how can we enhance the well-being of a built space, workplace or community that people love?

My mastery is in the development of practical well-being-based accounting, management, reporting and budgeting systems for companies, non-profits, communities, and nations (including First Nations). Well-being can be measured and incorporated into conventional accounting and economic analysis systems. This belief is based on the fact that the word ‘wealth’ means ‘the conditions of well-being” from the 13th Century Old English word (wela-th). I call my model Genuine Wealth.

My well-being measurement work extends from First Nations in Canada, Nunavut (Canada), Alberta, Singapore, China, South Korea, The Netherlands, Austria, and French Polynesia (Tahiti). New Zealand, Iceland, and Scotland are advancing well-being budgeting and governance. Well-being based governance is common-sense-economics for building a better and happier world.

I am currently working with architects, builders and impact investment experts to incorporate well-being-by-design into every new sustainable building project and every investment decision we make.

What are the expected well-being impacts of every decision we/you make today?

Called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine, Tristan Harris spent three years as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should ethically steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens. He is featured in the record-breaking Netflix documentary, "The Social Dilemma" and President and Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, an organization working to raise awareness of and reverse the toxic process of 'human downgrading' due to social media companies' toxic business model of harvesting and automating humanity's attention and behavior. He is co-host of CHT's podcast "Your Undivided Attention" with Aza Raskin.

Natalie Foster is the President and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, a network dedicated to advancing a guaranteed income in America and reining in the unprecedented concentration of corporate power. She's a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, and former director at Obama's Organizing for America, MoveOn.org and Sierra Club.