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Summary

Haley Fitzpatrick invited participants to build a pluralistic awareness of their own relational field, or how the systems, places, ideas, and multi-species communities interact and shape their daily lives. We explored this by creating a simple experimental prototype: a personal practice that helps you interact with your relational field with intention and notice what emerges when you listen in pluralistic ways. The hope was to spark imagination around how you can strengthen trust in emergence by attending to what arises through relationship rather than planning, and to strengthen confidence in your own capacity to act in “unknown unknowns.” This session was inspired by what Hawaiian scholar Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer (2025) describes as “mutual emergence,” as a way of living in relationality that supports collective growth and flourishing.

Presenter

Haley Fitzpatrick is an architectural designer and systemic design researcher engaged in community-based transformations toward regeneration. Before earning her PhD at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, she worked at internationally renowned architecture firms, including Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa, Italy. She is also an educator, teaching bachelor’s, master’s, and executive master’s courses in systemic design and architecture. Haley has been a guest lecturer at ETH Zurich’s Systemic Design Lab for the Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems executive master course and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Polytechnic University of Turin’s SysLab, where she focused on methodological intersections across design disciplines. Currently, she is a Design Associate at the MonViso Institute, a Senior Advisor at COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning and Transformation) in Portland, Maine, and Research Initiatives Manager at the Transformations Community. Haley currently lives in Wai’anae, Hawai’i.