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“The biggest highlight for the Boston Chapter was the Prototype for the Planet Design-athon event we held in the middle of April. We had 12 teams of 4 designers & creatives in-person and remote with workshops, mentors, and judges. We roughly had about 100 people helping us all for this goal for designing for the climate. It's the proudest moment of our chapter.”
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​- Brett Duboff, Boston Chapter Lead

“The Bay Area had some fun events this year, and a highlight for me was our Solarpunk Salon event which celebrated one of the things I love most, climate fiction and its ability to help us imagine alternative futures. It was an opportunity to share the concept of solarpunk and steward some future visioning conversations, the results of which we consolidated here and cover some interesting ground.”
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- Natalie Walsh, Co-founder and Bay Area Chapter Lead

“The thread through every gathering was being mindful of curating experiences that felt welcoming, accessible, authentic, and creative! A highlight was bringing together a variety of speakers and partners for our LA Climate Week hub, screening From Soil to Soul, and facilitating 'Reimagine Your Neighborhood' workshops. Collaborating to create space for everyone to use their imagination and dream up the climate future they want to see!”
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- Rachel Cellinese and Margaret To, Los Angeles Chapter Leads

“So many highlights from the year! We got fiscally sponsored, created the necessary backend infrastructure to support our 50+ volunteer team, relaunched virtual events (more coming soon!), and launched our first donation drive. All of this is gearing us up for a bigger and better 2026. Stay tuned!”
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- Marc O’Brien, Co-founder

“My highlight this year was our Climate Resilience Walking Tour. It all started when our happy hour happened to be next to a gathering of Climatebase Fellows. That conversation evolved into an augmented reality walking tour where we visualized future flooding scenarios and learned about port resilience infrastructure. With five organizations co-hosting, we brought together a varied group of people, and everyone got to see San Francisco from a new perspective.”​
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- Leslie Forman, Bay Area Chapter Lead

“Climate Designers Japan began hosting regular online events with TechIE this year, sparking active discussions on how designers can address climate change and energizing the Japanese designers’ Discord community. Next year, we plan to run workshops with Thinknado at Spectrum Tokyo Festival 2026 in Japan.”
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- Toshi Otsuka, Japan Hub Lead

“The highlight for Climate Designers Singapore this year was hosting 'The Regenerative Strategy Lab - Redesigning Leadership for a Living World' at Bangkok Climate Action Week.
We explored what Regenerative leadership looks like in practice. The feedback was amazing and showed that this topic resonated deeply with participants. We're planning to bring it to other events in 2026! And my personal highlight this year was definitely the launch of my book “Imagine - Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency” at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore."
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- Natalie Seisser, Singapore Chapter Lead

“It’s a bit hard to nail down just one highlight, but I’ll share some of my favorites. The creation and kick-off of the Climate Designers Chicago Chapter, restarting of online events (with a ton of ideas still to be created), and helping create marketing materials for the fantastic work that everyone at Climate Designers does. All of these were a reminder, that I didn’t realize I needed, to remember that there are people everywhere working towards one goal: Tackling Climate Change. Most of the time, it feels like a big group project that we are “failing”. We aren’t failing, it’s just hard to see how many people are working towards it from our siloed perspective at times. I look forward to 2026 and seeing so many more folks be curious and join in on the work that genuinely benefits us all."
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- Sabrina Karas, Chicago Chapter Lead & Community Manager