Roisin Markham

Roisin Markham lives near the sea in Cahore, North County Wexford. She is a steward to the land, 18 oaks, Fearnóg and a Crann Fia Úll in their place. Where she and her husband raised three free-range sons that sing their own songs in the world. At home in a rewilded garden with aspirations to create a food forest. She grows food badly and made terrible tiktoks about it, in 2026 Roisin is exploring tiktok as a space to talk more about her relational systems and writing work.

She believes that a low carbon Post-Growth Society has to shape futures worth living into. As a thrutopian explorer looking for bridges and pathways to new narratives that arc us towards Roisin makes space for imagination and different kinds of relational work, a time traveler working across timelines and stories holding Ireland’s 5th Province as an anchor to cultivate bold agency and transformative change amid uncertainty.
Futures literacy, kin, ancestors and all of us ~ this is where we will find answers and agency for the polycrisis – housing, fossil fuels, biodiversity crisis, biosphere collapse and manmade climate change.

Roisin lives and works with the three simple principles

• Care at the core
• Do no harm
• 30% back to nature

To be a good ancestors is to pull our impact back within planetary boundaries and create a strong social foundation where no one falls short of life’s essentials.
In 2020 Roisin established the Irish Doughnut Economics Network, IDEN. Routed in regenerative economics, economic literacy and reclaiming our economy. Roisin actively uses applied doughnut economics as an underpinning across her systems work.

In 2022 she began working more closely with FEASTA and from 2023 the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL) Ireland Hub. This connection has brought her more deeply into policy work along with re-emergence of her artist self through the WEALL Ireland Cultural Collective Community of Practice.
This is the perfect example of Irish plurality to be able to hold policy, change, economics, and culture in a social and ecological wellbeing and care lens.

Roisin believes if we want to live in a democracy then we have to practice it and use our public voices.

Locally a member of Wexford Enviromental Network and Public Participation Network, she sits as a PPN Enviromental representative on Wexford County Councils Economic Development and Enterprise Strategic Policy Committee.

In 2025 – 2027 supporting the Wexford Fredrick Douglass Civil Rights Festival with their website supporting digital literacy and capacity building.

Roisin draws daily and writes weekly, this website aims to share her work in business and beyond. As we move beyond the first quarter of this century Roisin is reconnecting more deeply through design and culture, art and ecology, storytelling and connection. Building futures worth living into.

She claims her first language is not English, nor writing but drawing.
Roisin writes as a citizen of Ireland and the EU, she recognises it’s her global north perspective and is working on decolonising her perspective. Yes even as an Irish person.

Part of my Story

I work on closing the gap between policy, strategy and operations for 2030 and 2050.

What that looks like – strategic design, facilitation, eco-literacy and ecological storytelling, economic literacy, corporate sustainability education, climate cafes and other times its management consultancy, co-design, stakeholder engagement, strategic PMO and creative projects.

I work across sectors, and silos bridging and connecting people. I bring relational multi-discipline design plus systems thinking approaches to enterprises, public bodies, organisations, municipalities and communities.
I am creative, think differently and by nature I’m innovative. I work in a relational way and have a natural affinity with process.

+30 years of working across decarbonisation, software & digital spaces including e-commerce, professional services, financial services, aviation, business process improvements, strategic design, speculative design & innovation, education, art & culture, and with not for profits.

Prior to 2014 Roisin kept an active blog practice on blogspot, for her studio and creative social research arts practice.
Swims with seals 2022 – 2013 is a personal photography project celebrating her open water sea swims blog.

At the beginning of 2025 she decided to write weekly Studio Notes that are more life notes. She refused to use AI for them, practicing reflection back across the week, synthesising, ask a question of the reader sharing resources and a view to the week coming.