Regeneration
Regeneration goes beyond minimizing harm or sustaining current conditions to actively restoring and enhancing social and ecological health. It is described as the Framework's founding aim and is built directly into its Procedures and Outcomes.
The book frames regeneration as the paradigm the Symbiotic Design Framework pushes design toward, beyond sustainability: the 'ethical imperative...pushes us towards actively regenerative approaches, practices that aim not just to minimize harm or maintain current conditions, but to actively restore, heal, and enhance the health and vitality of both social and ecological systems' (Ch9 §096). It is named early as the book's own founding aim, 'I believe we need to push further, towards regeneration. The Symbiotic Design Framework I am proposing is my attempt to contribute to that shift, advocating for a design practice that actively participates in the healing and flourishing of our planet and all its inhabitants' (Ch1 §011), and is then operationalized inside the Framework's own components: 'Procedures must be designed to actively promote ecological integrity and regeneration' (Ch13 §128), and Outcomes 'must embody the principles of regenerative design, moving decisively beyond the linear "take-make-dispose" model that characterizes the Capitalocene' (Ch16 §155).
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Entries this one is tied to through the book.
Methods
- Material Ecology · both placed under Regeneration beyond sustainability
- Regenerative Design · both placed under Regeneration beyond sustainability
- Anti-Racist Design · discussed together in section 155
Examples
- "Brown Economy" (Pavan Sukhdev) · discussed together in section 011
- Brundtland Report ("Our Common Future") · discussed together in section 011
- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 010
- Green Economy · discussed together in section 011
- Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) "Seventh Generation" Principle · discussed together in section 096
- IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) · discussed together in section 010
- The Limits to Growth · discussed together in section 011
- MOTH (More-Than-Human Rights) Program (NYU) · discussed together in section 096
- UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) · discussed together in section 011
In the Framework
- Sustainability
- Procedures Component
- Outcomes Component
- Capitalocene · concept
- Anthropocene · concept
In the book
- Chapter 1, section 011 · Beyond Techniques: A Shift in What We Value
- Chapter 9, section 096 · Sustainability - An Ethical Obligation Across Time, Species, and Justice
- Chapter 13, section 128 · Alignment with the Four Mottos
- Chapter 16, section 155 · Alignment with the Four Mottos
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