Theme: Soulful Economies and Livelihoods of Meaning

Focus: Redefining prosperity through dignity-based work, mutual aid, post-growth economics, and gift economy practices. Measuring true wellbeing as the compass for economic life.

Research Basis: Economy of Wellbeing & Thrivability; Cities as Systems of Care. Thematic Action Ideas: Cooperative markets, skills festivals, basic income pilots, wellbeing economy indices.

Key Question: What kind of economy nourishes the soul of a city?

Expected Outcomes: Tools for measuring genuine wealth and wellbeing, practices of gift economy, design of soulful livelihoods.