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Regenerative design seeks to not merely do less harm when designing, but rather to put design to work as a positive force that restores, renews or revitalises. A concept that’s inherent in nature, regeneration should be the approach for how we interact with the planet.

A quest, Diving into our relationship with time

Every day we are confronted with an ever-changing world. VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) is one of the best-known acronym to define the world we are experiencing.

It is time for designers to set our sights beyond sustainability and consider regeneration. Sustainability is an important concept in a time of widespread environmental destruction. It has made us aware that our planet’s resources are finite, and helped us envisage practices to sustain our current resources. But on its own it does not fix what is... See more

GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world. We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design.

Life-centred design aims for regenerative futures by designing for:Product Lifecycle—Expanding responsibility of product design from focusing only on the time the product is with a target user to including the extraction of raw materials required to make the product, parts and product manufacturing, shipping and transportation, selling, using,... See more