“The ultimate object of design is not artifacts, buildings, or landscapes but human
minds.” (Bill Reed, ‘Regenesis’).
This approach, which is most vocally
championed by ‘Regenesis’ principal Bill
Reed, may just be the most important
thing you’ve never heard of before and it
is backed up by a serious, comprehensive
process or design.
What it comes down to is that the principles of regenerative development can
blow everything we’ve come to know
about sustainable development right out of
the water. The philosophy goes to the root
cause of human dysfunction with the planet
and offers a surprisingly fresh approach
on how to reconcile this relationship. In
its essence, regenerative development is
centered on the idea that the earth can be
healed and regenerated through human
development. This recognition comes from
the understanding that humans have always developed the places they’ve inhab-
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tend toward stability, but instead toward
disruptive change. How is this relating to
us sustaining the stability? That said, the
persistent mainstream view seems to be
that eco-systems, on-line groups, tribes,
users, fans and audience represent kinds
of passive, egalitarian ‘fixed ‘communities. Steady state of continuum equilibrium
- nothing could be further from the truth.
Thriving eco-systems are those that are
highly adaptive, constantly evolving, responding well to change and stimulus, in
fact they thrive on it, they gain from instability, they are designed for driving change
and growth that is difficult to predict.
Emerging new patterns of growth embracing temporary volatility and conditions
expanding the limits of equilibrium to transform to a new resilient state. Higher levels of self-organized systems are far from
static. True sustainability is not a thing or
a deliverable object. It is a living system
thinking leading to a sustainable design. It
is a frame of mind.