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Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving
Sustainability
Regenesis Group
<http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-302475.html?query=Regenesis+Group>
ISBN: 978-1-118-97286-1
272 pages
September 2016

Description
*The evolution of sustainability, with a practical framework for
integration*

*Regenerative Development and Design* takes sustainability to the next
level, and provides a framework for incorporating regenerative design
principles into your current process. The Regenesis Group is a coalition of
experienced design, land-use, planning, business, and development
professionals who represent the forefront of the movement; in this book,
they explain what regenerative development is, how and why it works, and
how you can incorporate the fundamental principles into your practice. A
clear, focused framework shows you how to merge regenerative concepts with
your existing work, backed by numerous examples that guide practical
application while illustrating regenerative design and development in
action. As the most comprehensive and systemic approach to regenerative
development, this book is a must-have resource for architects, planners,
and designers seeking the next step in sustainability.

Regenerative design and development positions humans as co-creative and
mutually-evolving participants in an *ecosystem*—not just a built
environment. This book describes how to bring that focus to your design
from the earliest stages.

   - Understand the fundamentals of regenerative design and development
   - Learn how regenerative development contributes to sustainability
   - Integrate regenerative development concepts into practice
   - Examine sample designs that embody the regenerative concept

To create a design with true sustainability, considerations must extend far
beyond siting, materials, and efficiency. Designers must look at the place,
it's inhabitants, and the purpose—the *whole* living ecosystem—and proceed
with their work from that more humbling perspective. The finished product
should itself be an ecosystem and sustainable economy, which is the root of
the regenerative development approach. Sustainability has evolved, and the
designer's responsibility has increased in kind. *Regenerative
Development* *and
Design* provides an authoritative resource for those ready to take the next
step forward.
Table of Contents
Foreword v

Acknowledgments xi

Changing Our Minds xiii

The Future of Sustainability xix

*PART ONE: Creating Regenerative Projects 1*

*Chapter 1: EVOLUTION 9*

Premise: Every living system has inherent within it the possibility to move
to new levels of order, differentiation, and organization

Principle: Design for evolution

*Chapter 2: UNDERSTANDING PLACE 33*

Premise: Co-evolution among humans and natural systems can only be
undertaken in specific places, using approaches that are precisely fitted
to them

Principle: Partner with place

*Chapter 3: DISCOVERING COLLECTIVE VOCATION 61*

Premise: The sustainability of a living system is tied directly to its
beneficial integration into a larger system

Principle: Call forth a collective vocation

*Chapter 4: THE GUILDED AGE 81*

Premise: Projects should be vehicles for catalyzing the cooperative
enterprises required to enable evolution

Principle: Actualize stakeholder systems toward co-evolving mutualism

*PART TWO: Creating Regenerative Processes 103*

*Chapter 5: START FROM POTENTIAL 111*

Premise: Potential comes from evolving the value-generating capacity of a
system to make unique contributions to the evolution of larger systems

Principle: Work from potential, not problems

*Chapter 6: VALUE-ADDING ROLES* *135*

Premise: The continuing health of living systems depends on each member
living out its distinctive role

Principle: Find your distinctive, value-adding roles

*Chapter 7: TRANSFORMATIONAL LEVERAGE 153*

Premise: Small conscious and conscientious interventions in the right place
can create beneficial, system-wide eff ects

Principle: Leverage systemic regeneration by making nodal interventions

*Chapter 8: DEVELOPMENTAL WORK 177*

Premise: A project can only create systemic benefit within a field of
caring, co-creativity, and co-responsibility

Principle: Design the design process to be developmental

*PART THREE: Becoming a Regenerative Change Agent 197*

*Chapter 9: SYSTEMS ACTUALIZING 201*

Premise: The actualization of a self requires the simultaneous development
of the systems of which it is a part

Principle: Become a systems actualizer

Epilogue 215

Further Reading 219

Index 223
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Author Information

*PAMELA MANG* and *BEN HAGGARD* are founding members of Regenesis Group, a
coalition of experienced design, land-use, planning, business, and
development professionals who focus on regenerative design and development.
Regenesis was founded on the belief that environmental problems are more
cultural and psychological than technological, and works to forward Living
Systems Thinking as a framework for breaking the stagnation and developing
a symbiotic relationship between people and the places they design and
inhabit.