WHO WE ARE
A GROUP OF MAKERS, DESIGNERS, RESEARCHERS AND COMMUNITIES BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR REGENERATIVE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION IN EUROPE.
Regenerative: Ecologies of Design & Production is a three-year Horizon Europe project built on a simple conviction: the knowledge needed for regenerative making already exists. It lives in craft traditions, fab labs and makerspaces, in the hands of makers and fabricators, and in experiments that have yet to travel beyond their local contexts. What has been missing is a shared framework to connect this knowledge, test it in practice, and make it open, accessible and scalable.
We work across six territories in Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Ukraine. In each territory, local communities are not simply participants but fellow researchers and makers, bringing their knowledge, skills and lived experience into the process. Together, we work with real materials, in real places, under real constraints. We don't just theorise about regenerative production. We put it into practice.
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13 ORGANIZATIONS
Regenerative design sits where ecology, material science, design, economics, local governance and cultural heritage meet. Our consortium brings these disciplines into one conversation, with fab labs and makerspaces at its core: places where community scale production already happens and knowledge moves from peer to peer.
FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION'S HORIZON EUROPE PROGRAME
From November 2026 to November 2029, our ambition is to help regenerative design move from emerging practice toward a new European norm. Everything we produce, from methodologies and tools to frameworks and prototypes, will be openly accessible, so others can adapt it, improve it and share it forward.
Rooted in place. Regenerative in logic. Open by design.
Rooted in place. Regenerative in logic. Open by design.
