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The Pattern Book for Regenerative Design
A practice guide for engineers (and other humans)
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A six-month transformational programme for leaders and future leaders to develop and apply regenerative thinking
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Our top tools for regenerative design, free to use and available for download.
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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
- Riding the waveI spent most of yesterday afternoon up to my middle in waves learning to surf [this is a repost from the archive, so this didn’t actually happen yesterday!]. …
- The Great FlatteningJim Crace’s book Harvest provides fascinating portrait of rural life in England just before the start of the Industrial Revolution. What is so striking is the way the pattern of …
- Clash of system goals
I took this photo at Étampes station. It shows a nineteenth-century roof that spans four platforms with no internal columns. And then, right in the middle of that … - Smoothing things outOne of earliest childhood memories of travel is riding in the back of the car driving along a motorway in mountains in the north of Italy. To traverse …
- Go (notes on complexity)My favourite board game is Go. A 19 by 19 board. White stones versus black. You win by surrounding your opponent’s stones before they surround yours. The game …
- Machine workInputs Outputs KPIs Tools Models Performance Quantitative analysis Scaling up Accelerator Dashboard Timesheet Human resources Bottom line When we think of our work as the work of a …
- Metaphorical measure expressionsIn a recent workshop, I heard someone say, I wouldn’t touch that with a barge pole. While I kept my game face on, my pedantic, literal inner voice …
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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