Category: regenerative
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Seeing like a Stoat
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A list of links between various recent things which expand our sense in ways that help us see the world from perspectives.
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Sussex is a Thing
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I was invited this week to give a short talk on day one of the Sussex & Brighton Devolution Policy Sprint, which was being held to start exploring requirements for the formation of a Mayoral Combined County Authority for the local government areas of East Sussex County Council, West Sussex County Council, and Brighton and…
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More buildings about people and songs
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I went to a brilliant event last night at Arup in London. After a talk from Michael Pawlyn for the launch of the third edition of his book Biomimicry in Architecture, he joined a panel (Charlie Warwick, Jo da Silva, Andy Chalmers & Tom Lloyd) to discuss how to push beyond a ‘sustainable’ building industry…
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Deep Time Walk with The STEPS Collective
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Last Friday (12th Sept), Pins Brown and Sam Jarman led a Deep Time Walk for The STEPS Collective around Devil’s Dyke on the South Downs near Brighton. A Deep Time Walk is a 4.6km walk through 4.6bn years. Each one metre step, therefore, represents a million years. Thanks to the UK weather, it certainly felt…
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Creating place-based regenerative explorations
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I received a really interesting email from Radko Kovachev at the Institute for Circular Economy in Bulgaria, asking about how to apply the Regenerative Design Field Kit which they had bought to a fascinating project they are working on. Rather than just email back, we agreed to put this up as blog post, so others…
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An introduction to Regenerative Triangulation
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Back in summer 2023, I wrote a post on an idea I’d had called Regenerative Triangulation. It was the first time I’d expressed it publicly, yet Lizzie Shupak asked me nearly immediately to do a talk on it as part of a London Climate Action Week thing she was hosting at the RSA. And from…
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Ecological Citizens and Regenerative Design
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HCI Talk with Dr Rob Phillips (RCA) The first people we used the Regenerative Design Field Kit with were the students of the RCA Design Futures programme. As part of this, Dr Rob Phillips suggested we also put a paper together, looping in the Ecological Citizens project, to submit to the Human-Computer Interaction conference, discussing…
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Woodpunk Futures
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I love this… and reacted immediately with the word Woodpunk. It is a Masterplan of the Luna block in Sodertalje, Sweden, by Alison Brookes Architecture & BAU. (I saw it via Dan, but you’d guessed that already) I’m not sure if Woodpunk is a term, but like Steampunk, it feels like it could just as…
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Reflections on Innovation & Future Thinking
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Toban Shadlyn and John V Willshire Introduction We are approaching the tenth anniversary year of the Innovation and Future Thinking course at IED Barcelona. In the summer of 2024, it will run from Monday 9th July for two weeks. Usually, around this time, we write an explanation of what the theme will be for the…
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Digging into Regenerative Principles
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I just came across some notes I made from Nesta’s first Minister for the Future event back in June, which was on Food for the Future and the potential of regenerative agriculture. The original essay on the topic was written by Thomasina Miers, and she was joined by Tara Garnett (Director of TABLE) and Tom…
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It helps open things out
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We launched Where The Light Gets In, a regenerative design field kit, last week in the Artefact Shop. It’s gone really well, driven in a good part by a LinkedIn post. Once upon a time, that would have been Twitter, but blog posts on a radically different social media landscape are for another day. We…
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Towards a regenerative design toolkit
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I have been working on a side project in the moments where I get the chance; a regenerative design toolkit called Where the light gets in. It’s a corruption of the Leonard Cohen lyric “There are cracks in everything, that’s how the light gets in”. I am less interested in the how, and more interested…