This motif combines the Living Systems Blueprint with a civil engineering perspective to create six questions for a site investigation that can reveal the underlying system characteristics.
- What is connected and what is separated?
- What is thriving and what is in decline?
- What is in flow and what is static?
- What is changing and what is fixed?
- What stories does this place tell?
- What is the place trying to do – and what helps or hinders it?
User guide
- Site survey — use these questions to bring a more systemic lens to a traditional site survey.
- System investigation — use these questions to think more about infrastructure and policies and how they relate to the patterns they create on the ground.
This post is an extract from the Motif Library in the Pattern Book for Regenerative Design.