Nicole Afonso Alves Calistri
Ma biodesign
Central Saint Martins UAL
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Design for Social Good / Design Research / Design Management
My location: London, United Kingdom
Nicole Afonso Alves Calistri
First Name: Nicole
Last Name: Afonso Alves Calistri
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program: Ma biodesign
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Design for Social Good / Design Research / Design Management
My Location: London, United Kingdom
About
Nicole A. A. Calistri is a design manager, educator, and activist from Brazil and Italy with a strong focus on ecology and justice. Nicole is passionate about facilitating collaborations between different stakeholders to address complex issues and reimagine systems. She teaches “Practices of Change” at London College of Communication, and plans to move to transition-focused projects after graduation.
Our current food production methods are causing a mass extinction crisis, with agriculture, particularly animal breeding and slaughter, being the main culprit. This industry is co-responsible for habitat destruction, loss of biodiversity, water scarcity, pollution, and significant greenhouse gas emissions. "Recipes for Regenesis" is a book that presents a year-long research effort to address this issue. It introduces a co-creative process aimed at envisioning food systems that promote regenesis, where humans become keystone species and our food systems foster the thriving of other species. Through this process, participants collaborate to create food recipes with ecological purposes, utilising plants, mushrooms, and algae with their ecological superpowers as ingredients. Each recipe tells an ecosystem story and serves as a basis for policy prompts, encouraging transformative systemic changes in agriculture and redistributing responsibilities between individuals and institutions.
