Living with

questions

a creative quest to catalyse design, applied doughnut economics and my wild imagination

“Not all who wander are lost” Tolkien

@CreativeDynamix

Róisín Markham
Strategic designer, facilitator + transformation practitioner.

Living with questions, listening for better answers, tending to what wants to emerge.
A creative quest in service of a regenerative, wellbeing economy.

I help organisations and communities turn complexity into collaborative, values‑aligned action through strategic design, facilitation, and regenerative systems thinking.

What I help with

You come with complex intentions: strategy to operations and delivery, change with people and through co-design, climate action, just transitions, policy commitments, public engagement and community resilience.

  • I help teams make sense of complexity and move into action.
  • I support groups to think more clearly, work more relationally, and deliver more effectively.
  • I design spaces and processes that make difficult work easier to hold.

When we work together, strategy becomes clearer, collaboration deepens, and the work has a better chance of landing well with the people it impacts.
Explore Innovation Services

How I work

I create the conditions where complex work becomes collaborative and doable.
You need spaces where people can stay present, participate fully, and imagine together. I design and hold those.

What I deliver
  • Futures literacy programmes that move groups from overwhelm to imagination as social and relational infrastructure, regenerative systems thinking and governance
  • Community Engagement Labs building capability and capacity for complexity with public organisations, designers and civic groups
  • Co-design 101 to imersive practice  for researchers, designers and public bodies
  • Relational capacity building working with Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, decolinisation, grief work, and nervous system attunement to make difficult truths holdable.

Blending +25 years across big tech & startups, art and social research, operations and strategic design. I see systems, sensing stuck energy, guiding emergence into structure.
When we work together: people leave capable, aligned, and ready.
Lets build your capability and turn complexity into clarity.

Founder and network steward of IDEN, Irish Doughnut Economics Network.

Roisin is an active FEASTA member and part of the core team of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Ireland Hub, (WEALL). Part of the WEALL Ireland Creative Community which has connected her to Joanna Macy’s Active Hope, the Work That Reconnects.

Her work in throughtopia continues as she forges new social imaginaries, challenging the business as usual approach and holding Ireland’s mythic 5th Province as a portal to a new vision for Ireland.

Explore Roisin’s ideas of democracy as murmuration, proposed civic listening project.

applied doughnut economics

Bringing doughnut economics into practical and applied approaches across communities, municipalities and businesses. Asking, thinking and applying living within planetary boundaries in a safe just space for all beings, where no one falls short of lives essentials.

2023 – 2224 my future ancestor’s thrutopian creative projects – writing, photography & portraits.
Updated with a dedicated page April 2026

Public speaking

Public speaking has become part of my regenerative practice. A way I share knowledge, exchange ideas, engage with different audiences and get feedback.
You will find a list of talks – youtube videos, tiktoks and podcasts on the about page.