Regeneration
What is Regeneration?
Regeneration asks how your design creates value from various perspectives. This is a transformative approach to improving the health and vitality of our planet, our communities, and ourselves. It's about taking a hard look at the way we extract resources, maintain systems, invest in the future, and consume goods and services. By making conscious choices, we have the power to restore and enhance the world around us. Regeneration chooses to create value for nature, communities and organizations.
“Being sustainable is about acting in ways that can be sustained indefinitely, within planetary and human boundaries.
Being regenerative is about making things better than they currently are.
It is about positive impact. It is about restoring nature, helping people to thrive and offering services and products into the world that improve lives and communities.
We believe that, if organisations are to be truly sustainable, they must first be regenerative.”
Imagine a society where we design our lives, work, transportation, and leisure activities with the intention of giving back to the Earth. A world where businesses collaborate with their stakeholders to create circular supply chains that eliminate waste and regenerate natural resources en communities. This is the essence of regenerative thinking – a paradigm shift that puts the well-being of all life at the center of our decision-making.
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From a Life-Centered Design perspective, regeneration starts with understanding your ecosystem and how your actions impact it. Practising life-centered design helps you create a regenerative mindset / life-centred design mindset.
Understand your ecosystem/ place and context.
Look through different human & non-human perspectives.
Create systemic interactions through capability and reciprocity building.
Slow down your work so that you see more of the work you are doing and see more of yourself
Redefine success beyond the monetary matrics
See nature as your kin and let it guide you.
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We regenerate because it is a way to nourish, restore and make our ecosystems thrive again. It impacts all aspects of our well-being, nature’s well-being, non-users well-being. It honours the next generations to come. It honours the intersectionality of life, harmony and abundance of all organisms and the organisms to come. It honors heritage and legacy.
Just sustaining is not enough anymore.
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Bring Designs to Life is the regeneration space of Life-Centered Design, where you define and deliver values for nature, community and economy. You need to understand what success is meant for your project and how to measure this. How does the business and/ or value model for your life-centered innovation look? Are you going for a social enterprise model and spreading your innovation? Will it be a circular business model, or are you giving your model away for free? And how does nature play a role in your business model? For example, British shampoo brand Faith in Nature made added nature to their board of directors.
Your innovation needs to live. Learn from nature how to do this and be responsive to changes & adaptation. Identify, create and execute a regenerative strategy with positive learning loops, where the value for each element positively influences the other aspects of the system. It describes how you release your innovation in the wild and how to communicate this. The regenerative strategy includes resource flows and impact journeys with ways to monitor and measure impact.
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Join designers and creative professionals from around the world to transition from human-centered to life-centered design and make a genuine impact with your work.
