This article aims to provide insights into regenerative design as a fundamental and indispensable principle of community design by focusing on our explorations and learnings that emerged at our “Regenerative Community Jam” Workshop held in conjunction with Dutch Design Week at Eindhoven in October 2022.
The workshop helped facilitate a collective brainstorm on regenerative projects, through our newly-developed open-source “Regenerative Community Design Canvas”, which will be shared below.
In this article, we will first introduce the “fertile grounds” of Eindhoven and the Netherlands, explore current challenges, and discuss how to move beyond sustainability towards regeneration/regenerative design. Then we’ll share more about the workshop through case studies, format details, a guide to using the aforementioned canvas, and finally, a list of resources for further exploration.