Helping people think regeneratively, work creatively and make change happen—one project at a time.
The Pattern Book for Regenerative Design
A practice guide for engineers (and other humans)
The Regenerative Design Lab
A six-month transformational programme for leaders and future leaders to develop and apply regenerative thinking
Pre-register for cohort 5, launching spring 2026.
Seeing the System
Our online introduction to Regenerative Design – register by 31st October.
Tools for Regenerative Design
Our top tools for regenerative design, free to use and available for download.
Most popular open courses
Most popular in-house courses
The blog: For Engineers (and other humans)
Oliver’s daily(ish) blog on creativity, regenerative design and practical philosophy drawn from across my teaching, writing and collaborations. Sign up for Oliver’s weekly digest by clicking here and choosing the appropriate button.
Latest posts
- Does power support change?Earlier this week I wrote about designers needing to understand the conditions for change. What enables change and what blocks it? If we understand organisational culture as how …
- Never mind the aurochs…here’s the Tauros. I read last week that Aurochs were the third heaviest mammals to wander Europe, after woolly mammoths and their sartorial companions, woolly rhinoceroses. Aurochs were …
- What’s holding the current situation in place?Design is about making change. Our aim is to turn an existing situation into a better situation. Sometimes that might be about designing a new thing. But other …
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- Where we make but also where we takeThis has become one of my catchphrases in regenerative design*. To think of design as being for ‘where we make but also where we take’. The role of …
- Just build lessMore and more people are asking: how do we move from sustainable design to regenerative design? In these conversations, we often talk about system change. We talk about …
- Seeing the latent potentialAs Rob Hopkins points out in his wonderful book From What Is to What If, the climate crisis is, at its core, a crisis of the imagination. If …
- I’m an engineer, I feel your pain and I have a planThis little refrain is my version of Aristotle’s three artistic truths for making a convincing argument. Aristotle proposed three things were needed to win people over. The first …
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News and highlights
Field notes from our training courses and news about what we are up to at Constructivist.
Latest articles
- Pattern book field notes – action learning and continuous place-based design
This week I took my copy of the Pattern Book to Cambridge. (Its second visit: in July I dropped it …Continue reading “Pattern book field notes – action learning and continuous place-based design”
- Emergent marketing – the RDL Cohorts for 2026I’ve noticed recently how often a controlling mindset can creep in when I think about how we spread the word …
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- Our new online intro to regenerative design launches in November
Here’s my pitch: Interested in regenerative design?Are you — or your colleagues — wondering how to introduce regenerative thinking on …Continue reading “Our new online intro to regenerative design launches in November”
- Canvas and Twill — the patterns for two new short courses in regenerative designMore and more design teams are committing to regenerative principles and goals in their projects. This is very promising. But …
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- Field notes: the Kalideascope meets the Ambition Loop
This week I was invited to run an afternoon session for the Engineers Without Borders UK Systems Change Lab at …Continue reading “Field notes: the Kalideascope meets the Ambition Loop”
- Two new short courses on regenerative design — launching next weekOver the last couple of months we’ve been preparing two new online courses introducing regenerative design, and we’re almost ready …
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