Greater Palma de Mallorca Metropolitan Area
Daniel Christian Wahl originally trained as a biologist, and holds degrees in Biology (BSc. Hons., Univ. of Edinburgh), Holistic Science (MSc.,Schumacher College) and Natural Design (PhD., Univ. of Dundee). He was the director of Findhorn College between 2007 and 2010, is a member of the International Futures Forum and H3Uni, an advocation partner of r3.0, and on the advisory councils of Ecosystems Restoration Camps, Commonland, the Ojai Foundation, the Systems Change Alliance and the Overview Institute of Australia, as well as, a Findhorn Foundation Fellow. and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. Daniel lives on Majorca where he helped to set up SMART UIB and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator and activist. Among his clients have been Ecover, Forum for the Future, Camper, Balears.t, Save the Med, Lush, UNITAR, UK Foresight, Future Stewards, and many universities and N.G.O.s. He served on the academic working group of the Global Ecovillage Network and has been linked to GEN for almost 20 years. Daniel has worked closely with Gaia Education since 2007 and contributed to the development of their Design for Sustainability online course and co-authored the current versions of all four dimensions of the curriculum. He also wrote the content and developed the concept of Gaia Education's SDGs Flashcards which with the support of UNESCO are now translated into 7 languages. Daniel teaches regularly on the MAs in Ecological Design Thinking and Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College. His 2016 book 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' has quickly gained international acclaim. It has been published by now in English, Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Danish, Slovak, Hungarian, with the Turkish and Czech editions aiming for publication in 2025. Daniel's Blog on Medium is followed by over 27k people. In 2021 the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce - founded in 1754 - awarded Daniel with the Bicentenary Medal for "an outstanding and demonstrable contribution, through ... design practice, towards an equitable and regenerative world." In 2022 Daniel was awarded a 2-year Volans Fellowship by John Elkington and his team. Daniel lives with his wife and daughter on Mallorca where he takes care of a Regenerative Food Forest research site and works with local NGOs on bioregional regeneration.
For more details see: www.danielchristianwahl.com
Curriculum writing for the only-line course in 'design for sustainability'; development of the new 'Bio-regional Design Education' (BDE) program; strategic institutional partnerships; developing educational programs in design and sustainable innovation; help with fund-raising and grant-writing