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Power of Place projects revisited – A conversation with Maria Benjamin from The Wool Library
A Conversation with Maria Benjamin about The Wool LibraryThis month we had a wonderful catch up with Maria Benjamin who originally brought her project The Wool Library to PoP in 2021. Maria is an artist and film maker, originally from Scotland who now lives in the Lake District and works with her...
Urban Tourism Living Labs with Roos Gerritsma
Our series of Power of Places stories continues with reflections from Roos Gerritsma on bringing regenerative perspectives to urban place-making
Wholeness is Soulness: A Meander on the quality of Aliveness
I like on these meanders to reflect on patterns or questions that consistently arise in Power of Place or in our work with clients about regenerative work. And one of the more common ones is what is really regenerative? And that has been our constant question and quest as we have been developing...
Meaning in the aliveness of Place
REFLECTIONS FROM XAVI RAMON, participant in POWER OF PLACE 2023 Xavi has worked on numerous projects in the built environment since 2008. For the last seven years with Green Living Projects, he has been focused on the sustainable ecosystem with a specific approach on materials, incorporating...
Regenerative Chanthaburi: Rediscovering Bio-Cultural Uniqueness
In early 2023, Dr. Nui Sirikul Laukaikul – a renowned philanthropist, brand specialist, Country Director of Sustainable Brands Bangkok, and a founder of PorLaewDee Program which helps instill young creative entrepreneurs in Thailand with the values of the Sufficiency Economy – joined Power of...
Post POP Reflections: Does regenerative place making require the dismantling of civilisations?
REFLECTIONS FROM RACHEL CAKEBREAD, participant in POWER OF PLACE 2023 Rachel is exploring what it means to be regenerative. Her career to date has been focused on creating a more sustainable built environment. But her passion lies in working with others to deliver regenerative projects and...
Power of Place: A celebration of 2023 cohort.
Today was a special day on the Power of Place 2023 journey. A few of the cohorts presented their project work, illustrating just how awesome this learning can be. We heard from six teams who presented a diverse range of projects around urban and rural community engagement. Three teams had chosen...
Dancing with Donella’s Systems in DESIRE
What would Donella Meadows advice to the EU New European Bauhaus project DESIRE be?
Farming our Future: Towards Evolutionary Potential
The farming community has come in for a lot of flack recently.. It's a hard job and an unforgiving one at times. It’s a traditional community that isn’t known for welcoming change, although it has proven in the past that when change is required it can embrace it. The post WW2 dramatic change in...
Regenerative Resourcing: Engaging ‘different’ mindsets.
I have been privileged to ask to join The RSA of which I am a Fellow in a regenerative learning inquiry this year. Our opening spark session included a q&a session. I'm always nervous about these because it essentially creates a position of 'expert' and 'learners' which isn't really...
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Dancing with Donella’s Systems in DESIRE
What would Donella Meadows advice to the EU New European Bauhaus project DESIRE be?
Regenerative Resourcing: Engaging ‘different’ mindsets.
I have been privileged to ask to join The RSA of which I am a Fellow in a regenerative learning inquiry this year. Our opening spark session included a q&a session. I'm always nervous about these because it essentially creates a position of 'expert' and 'learners' which isn't really...
Regenerative Resourcing: Dancing with questions.
I have been humbled and honoured to be asked to be part of the regenerative learning inquiry that the staff at The RSA have just embarked on. The regenerative futures team have designed an fascinating pathway over three months in this introductory period, where each monthly flow of interactions...
An Economy of Place – Part 10
FROM EXTRACTIVE TO INTERCONNECTED ECONOMIES Activating Citizen Democracy In Donella Meadows paper Interventions in Systems, she writes about buffers and stocks as stabilising forces in society. Mostly when we think about buffers and stocks we think about things like water reservoirs which hold...
An Economy of Place – Part 4
We are in a time of breakdowns and breakthroughs. The experience of the global covid19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the frailty in our global economies, has highlighted our inability to adjust to complexity, uncertainty and volatility, and accelerated the conversation about what needs to...
An Economy of Place – part 3
We are in a time of breakdowns and breakthroughs. The experience of the global covid19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the frailty in our global economies, has highlighted our inability to adjust to complexity, uncertainty and volatility, and accelerated the conversation about what needs to...
A Regenerative Bioregional Identity for Sussex
When Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex said before he left the UK that the UK is his home and a place that he loves, it got me thinking again about place. What is a place? A place we call home? The UK is made of many regions that are busy and diverse, our culture is reflected in the ethnic diversity...
Breaking down the Story of Separation with Communities of Conversation
Can we tackle global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, or inequality without breaking down the story of separation? Is creating communities of conversation a starting point? There is a growing awareness that humankind is facing unprecedented challenges. Although climate...
What is a Bioregion?
A good definition is provided by the World Resources Institute: “A bioregion is a land and water territory whose limits are defined not by political boundaries, but by the geographical limits of human communities and ecological systems. Such an area must be large enough to maintain the integrity...