Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal

Bioregioning offers an alternative organising principle that could redefine the way we understand material flows, political governance and civil society. Simply defined, it is a form of activity that operates within the natural boundaries of a bioregion – often defined by a watershed or geological area – and that seeks to sustain, or indeed revive,... See more

biregioning, which is the verb, like how do you do it, really is kind of getting to grips with existing power structures, with politics, with economics, with, uh, climate change with all the kind of challenges and ills that we're facing. [00:06:33] And some people see it as a response to the polycrisis because it embraces everything, because it cov... See more

Modernism’s methodologies of mapping, designing, planning, for controlling and changing deeply complex systems may not be the answer to the challenges we face. Maybe we need to go underground — working in networked, symbiotic companionships, like mycelial arrangements, to generate infinite micro-revolutions.

emblematic ideas to take forward could include: * resilient and diverse communities as essential foundations; * the value of trust in government and civic institutions; * recognising the agility and capability latent within the public sector; * and the enormous value of inefficiency and redundancy in systems; * an understanding that there are essen... See more

it's a two way exchange between place and people, and in many ways that's what bioregioning is trying to get back to, that kind of two way exchange, but also this sense of belonging to place, having an identity that's rooted in place

In summary, the key Geddesian impulses that still deserve further attention in the contemporary context of sustainable development are: the bioregional planning approach that integrates ecological, socio-cultural and economical considerations at a regional scale; the emphasis on transdisciplinary education as a prerequisite for informed civic parti... See more