Three Horizons
Designing experiments in policy change – lessons from RDL Cohort 4 Session 6 hosted at Chatham House
On February 4th, our current cohort of the Regenerative Design Lab returned to Chatham House London. In this session hosted by our delivery partners, the Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator, our aim was to deepen understanding of system change, policy change and the Ambition Loop model.
Continue reading “Designing experiments in policy change – lessons from RDL Cohort 4 Session 6 hosted at Chatham House”Exploring Regenerative Design with Hawkins Brown
On 30th January 2025, Oliver delivered the keynote for Hawkins Brown’s Regenerative Design Research Week, bringing together ideas on how regenerative design can reshape architectural practice.
As the final session in a week-long series of talks and workshops, this keynote helped tie together discussions on regenerative approaches in architecture. The session explored how organisations can map their activities against larger systems of change and provided practical frameworks for embedding regenerative principles into design practice.
Continue reading “Exploring Regenerative Design with Hawkins Brown”How to have ideas – workshop for DYSE
On 29th January 2025, we ran our ‘How to Have Ideas’ workshop with DYSE Structural Engineers in Manchester, exploring the creative process in design and how engineers can generate and test ideas effectively.
Building a Creative Toolkit
The session focused on:
- Understanding a design brief as a flexible starting point for creativity.
- Using our Kalideascope model to explore where ideas come from.
- Testing and refining ideas through models and structured evaluation.
Unlocking the Power of Design Briefs: Workshop at the IDBE Masters Programme
Today, Oliver was in Cambridge delivering his workshop “Things to Think and Feel about a Brief,” as part of his teaching on the Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE) Masters programme.
Continue reading “Unlocking the Power of Design Briefs: Workshop at the IDBE Masters Programme”Just updated, our regenerative design reading list
With the launch of our fourth Regenerative Design Lab cohort next week, we’ve updated our regenerative design reading list.
Interestingly many of the books don’t even mention the phrase regenerative design, but what they share in common is an alignment with the a holistic world view, within which regenerative design sits.
Continue reading “Just updated, our regenerative design reading list”Cohort 4 Applications now open
Applications are now open to join Cohort 4 of the Regenerative Design Lab. For this cohort we are partnering with Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator to ask how can we create policy that delivers regenerative design. We are looking to build a mixed cohort of policy writers, designers and people interested in influencing policy. All the details on the cohort 4 page.
The journey begins for Lab cohort 2
This morning we said a big hello and welcome to our second cohort of participants in Regenerative Design Lab. Today, this group of 19 engineers and built-environment professionals begin a deep dive into the principles of regenerative design. Our aim is to experiment with regenerative principles and translate theory into practice for wider adoption by the construction industry.
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These last two weeks the Constructivist team have been working to finalise details of the next Regenerative Design Lab programme. Applications for Cohort 2 will open in January. See our updated Regenerative Design Lab page and register your interest to stay updated on the application process.