"More and more designers and builders are realizing that...solutions to the real problems of development continue to elude us. Today’s green projects conserve energy, reduce wastes, and improve the quality of life. Yet these improvements only slow the degradation of planetary ecosystems. ...Development, with its high impacts on the planet, needs to become a source of ecological health."
Revitalist Magazine article, 2006
"Regenerative Design is grounded in...the belief that, as a part of a larger order, we humans must act in harmony with those larger patterns. When we do so, our designs become instruments for enabling the whole of a place to move to a richer and healthier expression of life. And in turn, a healthier whole grows the viability and vitality of the part (be it a river restoration or a housing development). By seeing the ultimate aim of all our work as the regeneration and evolution of increasingly vital, viable and inspiriting places, we not only create extraordinary designs, we become more fully human.”
Design Intelligence article, 2001
Trajectory of Environmental Design
Our culture is growing in understanding of how to address and embrace the complexities
of living systems. The design professions are rapidly moving to create guidelines of
practice that help us move beyond the boundaries of conventional scopes of work.
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Shifting our Mental Model – “Sustainability” to Regeneration
Sustainability, as currently practiced, is primarily an exercise in efficiency. In other
words, through the use of BREEAM, LEED, and other rating systems we are attempting to slow
down the damage caused by excessive resource use. We must do better. Instead of doing less
damage to the environment, it is necessary to learn how we can participate with the environment.
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The McAllen Story of Place
The purpose of the story was twofold: (1) to connect the design team to the distinctive character and dynamics of McAllen and the region—the people and the land, and (2) to serve as a unifying and inspiring context, as well as an organizing core for the creative work of the November 2008 master planning charrette.
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The Rediscovery of Place
This essay explores in respective order, (1) A phenomenological understanding
of what place is (2) A phenomenological understanding of our human relationship to place, and
(3) How the modality in which we perceive life (i.e. our psychological paradigm) helps to
determine the very way in which we inhabit and relate to place. The overall aim of this essay is
to develop a more holistic understanding of place and our evolutionary role within it.
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BioHabitats Leaf Litter Interview
"At the heart is the concept of place, the hook on which all of the rest hangs. Place is intimate, personal, filled with meaning and potential. It grows out of the rich interrelationship of earth energies, biotic energies, and human cultural energies to create a living whole with its own distinctive nature and spirit. When we experience where we live and work as such a place, it becomes a powerful source for the continuing caring required to sustain sustainability."
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