Exploring Policy and Place – a Regenerative Design Gathering at Chatham House
On 7 May, we brought together members from all four cohorts of the Regenerative Design Lab, along with a wider group of thinkers, policymakers and practitioners, for a special event at Chatham House. Titled Regenerative Design: Exploring Policy and Place, the event explored how regenerative ideas are finding momentum across construction, policy, and planning. The event was also…
A book of emergence
The word emergence has an almost quixotic feel for engineers. We are usually employed to maintain control over situations. But if we go back to the old definition of civil engineering—harnessing the forces of nature for the benefit of humankind—the word harnessing captures something important. It speaks of working with the system, not imposing control…
Today’s webinar — Gathering inputs for the creative process
Today we ran Session 2 of our Introduction to Conceptual Design for Structural Engineers, part of the ongoing programme we deliver through the Institution of Structural Engineers. Titled Filling the Kalideascope, this session focused on how to gather and organise the raw material that fuels early-stage design thinking. The heart of the session was our Kalideascope model—a tool…
Creativity training and teaching for engineers
