Episode 35 - Olivia Knight - Patchwork - Sharing is the currency of connection

In this episode I’m in conversation with Olivia Knight Liv is a social entrepreneur and the founder of collaborative gifting platform Patchwork. She is an activist on multiple dimensions at a community level and through serving social, climate and ecological challenges. She is playing a key role in the development of the UK sharing economy and is current chair of the movement. An ex brand strategist, she was a partner and strategist at eatbigfish and a creative director at climate and environmental creative platform Do The Green Thing Liv is someone with tremendous energy and vision, and a fierce believer in equality, fairness and social justice. We riff on her story, the birth of the Patchwork platform, consumption culture vs sharing and community participation, the social inequalities that the pandemic is revealing, how the sharing economy could develop as we look beyond just physical stuff to human connection, ecological healing and regenerating and re-imagining the places we live. This was recorded in early May. Hope you enjoy! Available all usual platforms. #thespaceshipearth #becomingcrew https://patchworkit.com/# https://twitter.com/projectpatchwrk https://www.instagram.com/patchwork_it https://www.sharingeconomyuk.com/