Join us for Regenerative Realities: a reflective and connective day hosted by Judith van den Boom and Jessica Riquetti, bringing together (int) speakers, students, and fresh perspectives from inside and outside the M School.
We are hosting a morning and afternoon session live from the Lethaby gallery, open for staff and students. The session is hybrid with students and public joining online.
Speakers
_ Jessica Riquetti (CAN)
_ Prof. Carole Collet (UK)
_ Jane Brady (UK) from the Bioregional Centre
_ Year 2 MA Regenerative Design
_ Alice Burns with Gaia Bomb: fire-ignited seed dispersal for rapid regeneration of temperate climates after wildfires. Graduate Material Futures
_ Tanay Wadodkar with Snow Seeds: stickers that make snow, finishes to regenerate snow dependent climates. Graduate Material Futures
_ Francesca Baur with Inter/twine, leading as regenerative learning and design director at Woodsell, a 180-acre rewilding and land regeneration project in the Kent Downs, to connect craft, ecology, and permaculture. Graduate Regenerative Design
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Regenerative Realities:
How Do We Practice in Context?
Hybrid Talks hosted by Judith van den Boom and Jessica Riquetti
Our morning session is set up with 3 guest talks of 20min each: Jessica Riquetti (CAN), Prof. Carole Collet (UK), and Jane Brady (UK) from the Bioregional Centre.
Regenerative realities are not about individual action or a single way of knowing. They are rooted in holistic practice, an approach that weaves together diverse knowledge, perspectives, and relationships in place. This means that when we practice in place, we look beyond isolated solutions and work the richness and voices in place.
Practicing in context requires awareness of who is in partnership, across changing landscapes, connecting past, present and future. As we design as part of living systems, relationships with species and place form opportunities for learning. Practicing collectively is complex, it requires reflection on whose voices are included, whose knowledge shapes action, and how human and nonhuman relations are connected.
In this morning session, we will explore different practices and perspectives on how we understand working with the realities of context. How do we place connections at the centre? How do we engage, work, and co-create with the collective intelligence of our ecosystems?
As regenerative practitioners, we are part of the ecosystem, not separate from it. We design from within. This raises new questions about how we participate. Ecosystems teach us about emergence, reciprocity, and timing. The mycelium network reminds us that design is not hierarchical, but a channel, connecting, supporting, and enabling. How do we navigate these dimensions? What does this mean for how we contribute, process, propose, restore, and understand the world together?
Afternoon session 1-3pm
Title: Regenerative Processes: How Do We Activate and Sustain Over Time?
Hybrid Talks hosted by Judith van den Boom and Jessica Riquetti
Our afternoon session is set up with 4 student/graduate talks joining from across the M school. Including a presentation of year 2 MA Regenerative Design students on a current project.
In the morning, we explored regeneration as a place-based and relational practice, rooted in diverse ecosystems and knowledge. This afternoon, we turn our attention to how regenerative practices unfold over time. Regeneration is not about fixed endpoints or singular solutions; it is an ongoing activation of restorative and relational processes.
As practitioners, our participation requires flexibility and responsiveness to local conditions. We are part of these processes, using our unique abilities as creative practitioners to explore strategies for creating thriving regenerative communities and culture. How do we know where and when to engage and communicate? What does it mean to design with a system that is alive and constantly evolving?
This session invites critical reflection on practicing with attentiveness to our abilities in response to time and process. Students and graduates will share their perspectives, experiments, and ways of working that explore how design can hold, activate, and sustain spaces of regeneration.
Together, we will reflect on how regeneration is not only about what we create, but also how we create, translate, communicate, and understand change over time. Design becomes a temporal tool within a larger system that will be required to adapt and transform in order to coexist as part of the living landscape.