Designing for Harmony with Place

Description

Designing for Harmony with Place: Developing Place-Sourced Critical Success Factors

Growing the capacity of human and natural systems to evolve in harmony is a central focus of regenerative development; the first critical step is seeing a project and its place as living systems with intertwined potential. The next critical step–and often the more challenging one–is to translate that understanding into a system of process guidelines and progress indicators that ensure the design, construction and operation phases are aligned around actualizing that potential.

This workshop introduces a framework used by Regenesis to reframe conventional design guideline systems by incorporating place-sourced critical success factors that enable a living system to evolve.

The framework draws on the Six Essential Value-adding Processes, including:

• the processes required to provide the material structuring that forms the basis for life processes (the outer landscape of a place and project)
• the processes generating the “inner landscape” that sources spirit and will, and drives people to cherish and protect the places we inhabit
• the core capacities required to develop the above in harmony

Participants should have a project or initiative, ideally one that is of a manageable scale to hold in mind and work with as a whole.

This workshop is led by Regenesis faculty members Pamela Mang and Joel Glanzberg.

Is this workshop right for me?
This workshop could be a good fit for you if any of the following statements apply:

• You’re exploring ways to move beyond current conventional “sustainability” indicators.
• You are looking for ways to design educational processes that deepen a community’s understanding of and care for how its place works.
• You’re seeking to grow your capacity to design developmental stakeholder engagement processes and grow stakeholder guilds.
• You’ve heard of the Six Essential Value-Adding Processes and want to understand more.
• You’ve taken the Getting Good at Place-Sourced Potential workshop and are seeking to further extend your learning.

Schedule
Enrollment is open now for cohorts with both US morning and afternoon session times that are possible for practitioners in either European or Deep Pacific time zones to attend. If you are interested in taking this course but find that the schedule options below do not accommodate you, please fill out our expression of interest form.

Registration Information
Registration for this workshop is $250. Three-month payment plans are available for $89 per month (including administrative fees). Subscribers to The Regenesis School receive a $50 discount. Scholarships are available for practitioners who would be unable to participate without financial support–you can apply for a scholarship here.