Regenerative Futures: Neighborhoods, Landscapes and Buildings

3 units

This seminar will investigate the theory and practice of regenerative design as the means to create thriving and emergent futures for the built and natural urban systems focused at the scales of neighborhood, public space and landscape, and buildings. Regenerative design is the means to build co-evolutionary and self-organizing integrated local and regional living autopoietic systems that grow the capabilities necessary for living systems to increase in complexity, diversity, capacity to support all life, and the potential to change to provide future options. The seminar participants will research and review existing and speculative regenerative projects as a means to develop and apply regenerative design strategies to a local neighborhood of choice.