Moving towards Regenerative Architecture

This month, Architecture Today has published their inaugural Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI), created in collaboration with Architects Declare.

It highlights the ‘best’ answers to their questions, to create an overview of how the industry is approaching Regenerative Architecture right now.

Here are my takeaways from the RAI

·         Regenerative Design is more of a mindset than a matrix of requirements. 

·         It is about a shift to long term thinking that impacts the everyday. It is the antithesis of our throw away culture where policy is locked into the four year electoral cycle.

·         Regenerative architecture tackles social justice as well as climate change. While carbon counts, inclusion and equity are just as important. Often these things are interlinked in the long run.

·         Success will require imagination, leadership and collaboration.

·         There are some great frameworks, methodologies, practice guides and targets out there that are aligned with Regenerative thinking, including LETI, B Corp, One Planet Living and the RIBA 2030 targets, Passivhaus etc etc

·         To some extent, your mindset is probably more regenerative than you think. The Regenerative Design Index is full of examples of how to be more regenerative, and worth giving some time to, to read and reflect.

Lovely to see Collective Works and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios well represented in this list.  Sharing values with those I work with is key to my everyday. 

If you want help sharing your sustainability stories, let’s talk.

https://architecturetoday.co.uk/architecture-today-333-september-october-2024/