REGENERATIVE: ECOLOGIES OF DESIGN & PRODUCTION

MAKING REGENERATIVE DESIGN THE NEW EUROPEAN NORM. WE’RE BRINGING TOGETHER RESEARCHERS, MAKERS, DESIGNERS AND COMMUNITIES TO MOVE BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY, TOWARD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS THAT ARE ROOTED IN PLACE, GUIDED BY HERITAGE AND BUILT TO GIVE BACK.

WE BELIEVE DESIGN CAN GIVE BACK MORE THAN IT TAKES

DESIGN SHAPED THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, AND IT HELPED CREATE THE CRISES WE FACE. REDUCING HARM WHILE KEEPING THE SAME PRODUCTION LOGIC IS NOT REGENERATION. IT’S SLOWER DAMAGE. WE START FROM A DIFFERENT PREMISE: THE WAY WE MAKE THINGS CAN RESTORE ECOSYSTEMS, REVIVE LOCAL ECONOMIES AND RECONNECT COMMUNITIES WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND MATERIALS THEY’VE LOST.

6 RESIDENCIES, ACROSS 6 TERRITORIES

Over the next three years, designers, makers, researchers, fab labs, policymakers and communities across six European territories will come together to test new ways of producing. Each Lab works with its own materials, landscapes and craft traditions. What works in one place becomes a resource for all the others.

OPEN BY DESIGN

Everything we learn will be shared openly. Methods, tools, design files and prototypes, built to be adapted, improved and passed forward by anyone, anywhere.

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A CONSORTIUM OF 13 PARTNERS ACROSS EUROPE, FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION'S HORIZON EUROPE PROGRAMME

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