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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
8. Regenerative Design, Ecology as Teacher
Author : Phillip B. Roös
Published in: Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Regenerative design requires a change of our current processes of design and planning, moving from the piecemeal, technological and mechanical approach to a model that better reflects the understanding how the universe actually works as a whole. In this chapter we explore the importance of this shift in thinking, and provide information on how to design and develop systems that actually consider the whole system.
When considering the whole system, learnings from ecology need to be explored and these connections of the larger framework (scale linking) of the whole are dealt with in levels of scale and at a certain local place-based scale (Lyle, 1991 [1985]). To work within the larger context, a set of hierarchical scales in a larger organised system gets applied. As part of design thinking, the context of scale and order are fundamental in the process of ‘ecosystem design’, which considers hierarchies of scale and represents in the midst of complexity, the nature of order. This chapter discuss the phenomenon of order as suggested by Christopher Alexander (2001–2005a, 2001–2005b) and the three modes of eco-systematic order described by John T. Lyle (1991 [1985]), encapsulating modes of structure in structural order, function of materials and entities in functional order, and order in locational patterns. The chapter concludes with the Regenerative Ecosystems [8] pattern, representing the reasoning that an ecosystem thinking needs to be fundamentally embedded in the discourse of regenerative design.