Nicole Doray
Hi! I’m Nicole. I’m a service designer and facilitator who is passionate about sustainability and social impact. I run Sol Design Lab- a collective of professionals who work to solve environmental and social challenges in Toronto, Canada.
City-Wide Design Lab
The Sol City-Wide Design Lab is a full-day convening that brings together racialized, Indigenous, LGBTQ2IA+, and newcomer Torontonians alongside municipal city staff, aligned corporate supporters, funders, and innovators to co-design community-led climate solutions for Toronto.
About this Project
Communities Served
My project will involve and/or impact the following communities:
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
When it comes to community impact projects, the UN has created 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These are the Sustainable Development Goals associated with my project.
How the project works
We create spaces for community voices to be uplifted and for their requests to be actioned through redistributive, co-operative, community-led climate action. We call these spaces Design Labs- interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder spaces for co-creation and solutions building.
Project Impact
Climate spaces consistently fail to center the communities most impacted by the climate crisis — particularly racialized, Indigenous, LGBTQ2IA+, and newcomer community members. Sol was built to address this directly, creating spaces for co-creation and power redistribution within the climate movement.
Project Mission
Non-conventional solutions-building that centers community voices
Project Team
Sol Design Collective was built by women and non-binary organizers who have spent careers advancing climate and social justice from within leading institutions. They came together to build something rooted in community power, anti-oppression, and intersectional movement-building.
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