The Master in Design for Distributed Innovation (MDDI) is a research and innovation ecosystem for creative professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and agents of change who want to realize real-world responses to the climate crisis, social injustice, and biodiversity loss, connecting a global community of changemakers with local innovators in order to address complex challenges. It combines online and in-person learning to support innovators to gain the social and technical skills needed to develop projects for positive impact with their own communities that aim for measurable transformational change toward planetary consciousness.