Patricia Parkinson

Polymath · Ontological Designer · Protopian Futurist

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My life and work have always been one conversation. What I care about shapes what I create, and what I create deepens what I care about.

My design practice focuses on shaping the spaces, stories, and systems that shape us back. For nearly two decades, I've worked across governance, culture, and technology to design the conditions where groups discover what they're capable of together — and find momentum.

I work with organizational emergence: the living process by which collectives develop coordination, structure, and coherence. Collaborators often describe me as a multiplier — someone who amplifies the capacities of everyone around them.

Spaces

I create gathering environments where trust deepens and collective capacity unlocks.

Stories

I craft narratives that align movements and turn imagination into collective action.

Systems

I build governance and participation infrastructure that lets groups move together.

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Collaborators & Partners

ANZ Bank · AP News · ATYP · Bankwest · BioFi Project · BlockOne · Burning Man Project · Buckminster Fuller Institute · Center for Humane Technology · ChangeLabs · China Mobile · Clever · Commonwealth Bank · Concep · Consciousness Hacking · Crane Industry Association · Design Science Studio · Elanora Country Club · Esalen Institute · Everipedia · EY · FCB · Football Federation Australia · Gitcoin · Google · habRitual · Indigenous Commons · Johnson & Johnson · Kwaxala · Lionsgate · MAPS · Minter Ellison · Mondelēz International · MS Research Australia · NAB · Netflix · Optus · Pegasus Pictures · Pumpables · Rackett · Regenerate Cascadia · Rhizome Springs · Seven Seven Six · Shimano · Singtel Optus · Speakers Institute · Telos · Topia · Vision 2030 · Vogue · Westpac

If you're building something that matters and could use a thinking partner, I'd love to hear from you.

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