Climate by Design: Unhiding the System Behind the Everyday Object
Sometimes an everyday object can change how we see the systems around us.
This hands-on workshop sits at the intersection of climate and human behaviour. Instead of more data or to-do lists, we start with what you already know and feel. Through games, conversation, and a bit of deliberate slowness, we use one everyday object as a doorway into the systems and design choices that quietly shape the climate crisis.
Participants leave not with a compliance checklist, but with:
A new way of reading the systems behind everyday things
A felt experience of what regenerative design means in your own hands
One small, self‑chosen next step you can carry into your studies, work, or community life
This session is ideal for students, practitioners, and community members who want to build systemic literacy and learn how everyday design choices can move us from extractive to regenerative futures.
About the Host
Climate Literacy Initiative (CLI) is a Toronto‑based initiative bringing accessible, science‑based climate education to schools, campuses, and communities across the GTA, helping people connect the dots between everyday systems and climate, health, and equity.
WiSED (Women in Sustainable Environment & Design) is a women‑led community reimagining the built environment through regenerative, inclusive design. WiSED brings together designers, architects, and allied professionals to break silos and embed sustainability, justice, and care into how spaces are conceived, built, and maintained.
Together, CLI and WiSED design workshops that blend systems thinking, regenerative design, and climate psychology to help participants move from anxiety and abstraction to grounded understanding and meaningful contribution.
This event is not hosted by or sponsored by the Toronto Public Library
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