The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. To engage with this work, please enter open-handedly, leaving all instruments and measuring sticks at the door.
Jamie Prow
Transitional & Ontological Designer (In Residence)
Jamie’s work blends ontology with enterprise design, putting new realities into practice and inviting us to put down the degenerative, divisive tools of modernity in order to co-design more life-affirming worlds beyond it.
Jamie believes that what we design
designs us back in return.
The more we create, the more those creations shape who we are and what we can become. Systems, organisations, and tools are not harmless objectives; they actively shape the relationships, values, and very worlds we can and cannot step into.
About Jamie
Jamie’s life’s work has been to apply his ontological approach to design within the fields of sustainability* and social impact, protecting the communities, land, and oceans that have shaped him. Yet this work asks far more than simply “sustaining things”; it asks for transitional design.
Today’s systems are themselves unsustainable designs: tools, stories, and contexts that trap us in a degenerative and divisive race to the bottom.
His systems-change approach invites us to rethink how society is organised, to lay down the tools, stories, and contexts that perpetuate harm, and to engage in the liminal practice of building foundations for new worlds to emerge.
* Not to sustain what exists, but to move toward what is genuinely self-sustaining, cultivating conditions and relational ways of being that support life, diversity, and flourishing for generations to come.
Jamie holds a BA in Industrial Design from the prestigious Central Saint Martins School of Design and has established collaborations with prominent organisations in regenerative practices, systems change, and the development of alternative business models.
Complementing this, he has trained in Regenerative Economics, Doughnut Economics, and Steward Ownership, applying these approaches to start-ups, university projects, and large corporations aiming to address systemic risks and drive meaningful change.
For the last four years, Jamie has focused on nurturing place-based social enterprises and supporting regenerative practitioners as Founder of Make Honey Ventures and Co-Founder of Taste The Shift. He also leads program design and holds key leadership roles in two transformative local community initiatives: one aimed at redesigning an island’s food system, and the other at reforming the social-care safety net for vulnerable young people. His work spans collaborations across the private, public, and third sectors.
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