WORLD FUTURE

About Me — Desiree Driesenaar

I’m a Born Global.

Picture by my colleague Ester Cazant for the project Venlo Regionomics.

I’m a world citizen. I don’t know when exactly that happened. My soul is born global, I guess. And then work happened. First, I travelled a lot for the high-tech company I worked for. Europe, China, Japan, and America.

A science world. High-tech. Business. Macro-economics.

And then, I became hyper-interested in the bigger picture of what happens globally. Differences in culture. I was often asked to make better systemic designs for economies, societies, democracies, cities, and rural areas.

I work now to restore soils, seas, and souls. Soil biology. Water solutions. Everything starts with a healthy planet. I use Biomimicry systemic design methods. Ethics. Reconnect. Translate the principles of nature and flow. Healthy green chemistry. Smart engineering. Observation.

Scrums & Agile. I loooooove the principles of rugby and other team sports. And agile, resilient solutions.

Biomimicry. The number 1 innovation method in the world right now.

I often live among outliers in social permaculture projects. Permaculture is the same as biomimicry. A principles design method for environments and tech…