Design Economics: A Common Framework for Siloed Capital

The impact economy has no shortage of available capital or proven models. What it lacks is a common framework for uniting them systemically. Capital deployed toward community wellbeing routinely operates in silos, separated by different metrics, time horizons, and decision-making structures, preventing more collaborative solution development.

Design economics addresses this through three tenets: acknowledging that societal paradigm change is constant, embracing creative models within a shared framework, and cultivating economic literacy that makes alternatives actionable.

This session brings together practitioners working across siloed capital stacks for a structured dialogue on what becomes possible when a common framework connects them.