These short entries introduce key tool from The Pattern Book for Regenerative Design — practical tools, ideas and mental models to support systems thinking, creative strategy and meaningful change through design.
Whether you’re deep in the Pattern Book or just exploring regenerative ideas, each tool offers a different entry point into the work. These tools are available for re-use under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-SA 4.0, so please use and share widely!
Ambition Loop
A model for testing whether a policy or strategy is likely to take root and scale within a system.
Changing Mindsets
Three mindset shifts to change what we see is possible and how we can work with what we have
Continuous Place-Based Design
A design process that grows connection with place, works with complexity and seeks to learn over time.
Goal of Regenerative Design
The goal sets a North Star for regenerative design and helps us differentiate this work from prevailing forms of design.
Kalideascope
A simple model for having ideas, combining a wide range of creative inputs and finding stimuli to create new connections.
Library of Systems Change
This framework combines the Three Horizons and Systems Bookcase to show how systems evolve over time.
Living Systems Blueprint
Three characteristics of living systems for building a regenerative design brief and testing our regenerative ideas.
Systems Bookcase
A model for understanding how decisions are made in a system and how to influence the outcomes that we want to create.
Three Horizons
A model showing how a present, unstable state can give way to a future, more desirable state.