Support our I.D.E.A. Scholarship Fund
Amplify the Voices Guiding Us Toward Regeneration
Contribute to the IDEA Scholarship Fund for coheART 4
Goal: $38,00 by December 14, 2025
About the Design Science Studio
The Design Science Studio (DSS) is a cultural and educational incubator that supports creators in shaping futures rooted in regeneration, justice and belonging. We are a living ecosystem of artists, designers, systems thinkers, story-weavers and movement builders committed to creating a world that works for all of life.
DSS holds space for interdisciplinary collaboration, creative capacity-building and community-rooted innovation. Our work is deeply informed by the legacy of Buckminster Fuller and carried forward through decentralized and decolonial ways of being, imagining and doing.
At the heart of our ecosystem is the (r)Evolutionary Incubator program—a 7-month journey of creative emergence and collective transformation that centers artists and designers as cultural stewards and worldbuilders. It weaves together art, storytelling, systems thinking and regenerative design, offering an invitation to grow alongside others who are working to create futures rooted in care, justice and imagination.
Each program cycle includes:
up to 144 participating creators
30+ mentors
50 visionary guest speakers
4 global salons for deep learning and connection
Digital and in-person exhibitions
A global commUnity of creative peers
Many artists and designers carry ancestral wisdom, community-rooted stories and visionary offerings that the world deeply needs. At the same time, systemic barriers continue to limit access to creative spaces and resources, especially for those whose communities have been historically excluded or marginalized by colonial systems and systemic injustice.
The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Scholarship Fund helps shift that reality. It supports creators from communities that have been historically excluded from creative leadership and access to education. These include Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, disabled and neurodivergent people, low-income creators and visionaries from the Global South.
This fund supports reciprocity and invites shared responsibility for resourcing the collective future we’re all a part of.
We are seeking to raise $38,000 to make coheART 4 fully tuition-free for 10 participants.
Contributions directly fund access, care infrastructure, mentorship and learning resources.
Your support would help the DSS provide:
Full tuition scholarships ($2,400 -$3,800 sliding scale per creator)
Language interpretation and captioning
Accessibility accommodations
Stipends for mentors, facilitators and cultural elders
Tools for time-zone equity and international participation
Community care and trauma-informed facilitation practices
With enough support, we can ensure the coheART 4 experience is accessible to all who feel called to join.
$2,400 - $3,800 sponsors full participation for one creaor
$1,200 funds a Global South participant
$760 provides one month of engagement
$95 helps cover a week of access and mentorship
“Design Science Studio has emerged for and by the architects of the future. It was the singular most profound turning point in my career.”
- Umair Zia, Evolutionary
“Creating space for collaboration is a radical form of artistry. The Design Science Studio is a rare and wonderful gift, a public commons for cross-pollination combined with a private incubator to nourish new works.”
- Evo Heyning, Evolutionary
“I had the idea many years ago, but it wasn't until I joined DSS that I had the space and support to develop the first prototype. Some of my early playtests were with the DSS community - it gave me the confidence to develop this experience into it's current offering.”
- Jenny Gottstein, Evolutionary
“When Camp Cosmo was nothing but a potential I held in my heart, the DSS, the coheART 2, and everything beyond helped me to never stop believing in my vision. And for me, this was the way from vision to mission, from mission to plan, from plan to action.”
- Clara Espe, Evolutionary
“As we begin to activate a networked bioregional movement through our collaborative initiative framework, I will be calling upon the network of DSS artists whose creative expression is essential to the co-creation of bioregional hubs around the world that support the redesign of our systems.”
- Benjamin Life, Evolutionary
There are many pathways into this work. You are welcome to support in whatever way feels best aligned.
Make a one-time or recurring contribution
Sponsor an artist’s journey through coheART
Share this campaign with your networks, communities, or aligned organizations
Follow and uplift the stories and projects that emerge from the coheART experience
Each act of support helps build the foundation for a more just and creative world.
We envision a future where DSS creators are not only resourced with tuition-free access but also with funded fellowships, paid residencies and community infrastructure that can support their work in the long term.
The IDEA Scholarship Fund is part of that larger vision. Thank you for tending this with us.
