Summary
This session starts with a feeling. A kind of itch. Maybe the project is touching questions we weren't trained to answer. The outcomes feel smaller than the problems. Work as usual feels… uncomfortable. Or maybe it’s better than that: seeing the forces at play in the world, there’s a desire to contribute beyond the scale of an organizational agenda. Something is pulling. Toward what, exactly, you can't yet say. This session is for anyone who recognizes that feeling, even faintly. Marc Rettig spent decades in corporate design before following what his late collaborator Hanna du Plessis called ""the urge to migrate""—the push of a container that no longer fits, and the pull of something not yet visible. In his case, that migration carried him out of the familiar territory of design-led problem-solving, into a different kind of work: long-term co-creation with communities, and the challenge of shifting deeply ingrained social patterns. In a series of first-person vignettes, he'll trace that journey: the first spark, the crossings, the companions, and what he found on the other side. Not as a how-to, but as a personal lens useful to anyone standing at the edge of something they cannot yet name. Marc’s talk will be followed by time for open conversation.
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