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📢 Our latest Regenerative Design Lab Report - Models and Frameworks for Regenerative Design - is now live 🌍✨ 📑 This report, which follows Cohort 2's journey through the lab, focuses on particular techniques we are using to facilitate conversations around regenerative design, including:  🔹Goal Definition: Establishing the goal of regenerative design as enabling human and living systems to survive, thrive, and co-evolve. 🔹Three Horizon Model: Structuring the Lab programme around three phases: the present, the future, and the transition. 🔹 Systems Bookcase: A tool for understanding decision-making within systems introduced early in the programme. 🔹 Library of Systems Change: A technique for imagining the shift from our current patterns of working to a more viable, thriving future. 🔹 Living Systems Blueprint: Using thriving living systems as a guide for our work and design as part of a thriving living system. The executive summary provides an overview of these key insights and breakthroughs, with a more detailed exploration in the subsequent sections of the report. The Constructivist Regenerative Design Lab was founded in 2021 by Oliver Broadbent, 1851 Fellow in Regenerative Design, with the support of Engineers Without Borders UK and funding from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Our team includes co-facilitators Oliver Broadbent and Ellie Osborne, and communication designer Alexie Sommer. We believe this report will be a valuable resource for anyone committed to turning construction into a force for thriving. We invite you to download the report, share your thoughts, and join the conversation on how we can collectively create a regenerative future. Download your copy here. https://lnkd.in/eJdEcRWc A huge thank you to all the members of our second cohort of the Regenerative Design Lab: Alex Garman Gavin Knowles Guy Woodhouse Joel De Mowbray Jonathan Fashanu Julian Sheppard Lisa Hey Lucy Rees Marika Gabbianelli Natasha Watson Pablo Newberry Paul Astle Will Rogers-Tizard Tom Whitehead ---------------- Applications for Cohort 4 of the Regenerative Design Lab, in partnership with Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator, are now open. Apply here. https://lnkd.in/ekB9Entw #Sustainability #RegenerativeDesign #ConstructionInnovation #NewReport #SustainableBuilding #GreenConstruction #PolicyInnovation #EnvironmentalImpact #Changemakers Engineers Without Borders UK Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Chatham House Environment and Society

Regenerative design is a holistic approach – considering all systems, feedbacks and impacts – where human and natural systems can flourish. Fundamental to this is ‘seventh generation’ thinking across multiple scales and systems. Our imaginations seldom reach beyond 50 years: our children or grandchildren’s futures. We need to consider at least the next 150 or 200 years. How will our great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren view our actions and the consequences? Our thinking must also expand beyond local or national scales to embrace the planetary as well. Our actions are embedded in the world’s web of physical, ecological and human systems; we must embed them in our designs. With this in mind, we have drawn out three underpinning principles that should be considered as drivers for your practice and in designing all projects. ·      Being a good ancestor ·      Co-evolving with nature ·      Creating a just space for people Regenerative design relies on a different mindset and high ambitions, with feedback that supports learning and adaptation throughout. This is a circular process, where effort in the initial and final stages can have disproportionately big and positive impacts. The principles listed above also underpin our Regenerative Architecture Index. You still have until this Friday 24th May to enter! https://lnkd.in/gY3vDht8. This post uses extracts from our new, free, Regenerative Design Primer, which is a useful companion when entering the Index. Please do view and download from our website here https://lnkd.in/e22dVStx. #regenerativedesign #RAI #regenerativearchitectureindex #enter #callforentries #ukarchitectsdeclare #architecturetoday #regenerativedesignprimer Photograph: Michael Eko / Climate Visuals Countdown

An inevitable future is often shaped by a thousand tiny decisions. These choices, which may seem like the easier option day-to-day, can collectively lead to an undesirable path that feels impossible to reverse. Or so I read from ecologist-economist David Fleming. But the easy future is not inevitable if we keep coming back to the essential questions: what is my work for? What does the thriving future we want to build look like? And what daily decisions can steer us toward that alternative future? This week we held a reunion workshop of the first three cohorts of the Regenerative Design Lab and it revealed to me the power of what the Lab does. In a world in which the present demands so much of us, the Lab programme establishes a consistent rhythm that draws us back to crucial questions: How do we create a thriving environment? How can we ensure that each design brief, each material specification, and each team meeting contributes to systemic change, even if it requires taking more challenging steps? I am grateful to this community of practitioners who keep showing up to make change in our industry, glad we can play a role in supporting their work and heartened by the bow wave that is rippling out from this community into the web of construction, design and policy in the built environment. As we grow this community with our upcoming fourth and fifth cohorts, our ambition is to make a significant contribution to to make a significant contribution to transforming what once seemed inevitable into a future we consciously design for the better. Read more about the Regenerative Design Lab https://lnkd.in/eMaBMpWN Read more of David Fleming's work here https://leanlogic.online/ James Norman Alexie Sommer Chris Wise Emma Crichton Tom Whitehead Zoe Watson Jessica Rowe Lucy Rees Nick Francis Tim Lucas Carla-Leanne Washbourne Lisa Hey Will Arnold Ciaran Malik Ellie Osborne - thank you for being part of this fruitful gathering. #regenerativedesign

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🏠 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐖𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬? 🏗️✨ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲—𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫? 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐬 they push the boundaries of construction with cutting-edge technology and forward-thinking practices.  🌟 How Are They Changing the Game? 1️⃣ 🛠️ Advanced Materials: High-strength concrete and innovative insulation materials create homes that are energy-efficient, durable, and cost-effective. 2️⃣ 🚀 Modern Construction Techniques: Using airform technology, they build resilient domes with minimal labor and maximum efficiency. 3️⃣ ♻️ Sustainability First: Their approach minimizes environmental impact while promoting energy efficiency. 4️⃣ 🤖 Tech Integration: While not explicitly stated, technology likely plays a significant role: 3D modeling software: Streamlines planning and visualization.  Robotics and automation: Enhances precision and speeds up construction.  Data analytics: Optimizes designs for energy efficiency and resilience.  📊 Key Benefits at a Glance: 🔥 Increased Resilience: Domes are nearly indestructible—offering exceptional resistance to hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. 💡 Improved Energy Efficiency: Their shape and insulation reduce energy use by up to 50%, saving money while being eco-friendly. ⏱️ Rapid Construction: Speeds up the building process, helping address housing shortages and cut costs. 🌍 Sustainability: Durable materials and minimal waste make this method a sustainable choice for the future.  🏗️ Why Does This Matter? With climate change and housing shortages on the rise, innovations like Monolithic Domes could redefine how we think about building homes. Their unique approach offers resilient, sustainable, and efficient solutions for communities around the globe. 💬 Your Turn: Would you consider living in a dome home? Let’s discuss the future of housing—drop your thoughts below! 🌟 Credits: All write-up is done by me (P.S. Mahesh) after in-depth research. All rights for visuals belong to respective owners. 📚  

Thanks to our brilliant #FOOTPRINTPLUS24 panel on Regenerative Thinking: Frankie Demetriades, Matt Webster, Samantha Deacon and Shira de Bourbon Parme for a frank and open conversation about the potential, drivers and barriers for transitioning from a "do less harm" way of thinking in building design and investment towards a regenerative approach. Regenerative thinking is a whole system approach to design that is compatible with repairing and restoring social and environmental resources. It is about making buildings work harder to generate energy, water, materials, wellbeing now AND in the future. The key question to build into briefs, business plans, and strategies is “What can we make MORE of with this building, now AND 40, 60, 100 years from now?” We even dared to ask the question whether this way of thinking might open our eyes to new sources of commercial value that don't exist now, but could in the future. Thanks to the incredibly engaged and insightful audience and a particular shout out to the contributors to the UK Architects Declare Regenerative Design Primer.

Really enjoyed #FOOTPRINTPLUS2024 yesterday and seeing the interest in nature, circular economy, green skills and more sustainability topics. Thank you for starting the conversation on #regenerativethinking Lora Brill and Brogan MacDonald and bringing together really interesting perspectives from the panel Frankie Demetriades (on #ESG and the importance of governance), Matt Webster (need for data, metrics and monitoring) and Shira de Bourbon Parme (on urbanism and importance of community). We also forayed beyond the urban focus to a question on whether to embed regenerative thinking into rural planning? Agriculture and forestry are where some raw materials are produced for the construction industry, which gave us the opportunity to talk about supply chains, land use strategies (land sparing, sharing or a combination?) and, if we're going to be regenerative in the urban environment, shouldn't we apply it elsewhere? YES!! We need a whole ecosystem approach, to think beyond our lifetime and make nature our partner in the way we design and build our communities. 💚

What if we could see early stage, built environment, nature based or landscape projects and express interest in collaboration or involvement? We would then be drawn by the project, not by a company, profile or brand .., develop new partnerships, secure contracts, and help make inspiring visions become a reality. We also wouldn’t have to depend on project creators finding us in the wild web .. That’s almost as exiting as the supply chain tools and collaborative processes that can evolve from such a regenerative ecosystem ..! #builtenvironment #property #creators #naturbasedsolutions #biodesign #regenerativedesign #circular #supplychain #collaboration #architecture #landscape #impact

We’re experimenting with a different approach: using tempered glass slates over rubber tubing to heat water, an alternative to traditional solar panels. The concept is similar, and we're excited to see how this experimental method plays out. Anyone with experience in this? I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how far we can take it! #ProgressNotPerfection #SustainableArchitecture

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