"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
Regenerative Design: Toward the Re-Integration of Human Systems within Nature
A much more deeply integrated systems approach to the design and construction of buildings and human settlements (and nearly all other human activities) is needed if we are to reverse the degeneration of the earth's natural systems. The self-organizing, self-healing, and regenerative capability of natural systems is diminished by human-created systems designed from the dis-integrated viewpoint that we are outside of nature and thus free to act on it with only limited understanding of consequences or effects.
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