Bill Reed, AIA, LEED AP, Integrative Design Collaborative, Arlington, Mass.

      As currently practiced, sustainability is primarily an efficiency exercise-an attempt to slow down the damage. Instead of doing less damage to the environment, we must shift our world view and work with the environment, using the health of ecological systems as a design basis and moving beyond environmental sustainability to environmental regeneration, thus preserving the planet’s health-as well as our own.

Learning objectives:

• Discuss the meaning of regenerative design
• Analyze how regenerative design is used as a process to place buildings and communities in relationships with natural systems that support them
• Review and develop ways to change the artificial boundaries between cultural and natural systems.