05 July 2023 New Next Excellence Series: Activating nature, activating people: investigations in regenerative design

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Date5th July 2023Lincoln University

Join us for the next in-person presentation in our Excellence Series by Professor Mick Abbott -Activating nature, activating people: investigations in regenerative design.

We’ve been taught to view people and nature as opposing forces - what people do and the way we live inevitably harms nature, while also what’s good for nature constrains what’s possible for us. Consequently, when it comes to our environment almost every contentious proposal comes back to a debate between development or protection.

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Wednesday, 5 July, 4.00 to 5.30 pm, Lincoln University

Regenerative design explores a different position, to ask how can we grow a place where both people and nature thrive?

In this strongly visual presentation, five key positions for nature positive design are investigated, through exploring a range of design and research projects we’ve undertaken with design and research partners that have included the Department of Conservation, Ngāi Tahu Property, Yealands, Herenga a Nuku, Pyramid Valley Wines, Conservation Volunteers New Zealand, Air New Zealand, Eden Project UK, Manaaki Whenua, Marian College, Antarctica New Zealand, Manawhenua Ki Mohua, Development West Coast and Tiaki Maniototo.

Regenerative design is founded on imagining futures that aren’t simply the extrapolation of past or present forces. Likewise, this presentation will argue that the future makeup of the landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand doesn’t have to be the intensification of current trajectories, but instead, one that repositions this country’s deep nature at the heart of how we live, what we produce, and who we are.

Read more on Professor Mick Abbott here.

05 July 2023
New Next Excellence Series: Activating nature, activating people: investigations in regenerative design

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05 July 2023 New Next Excellence Series: Activating nature, activating people: investigations in regenerative design

Join us for the next in-person presentation in our Excellence Series by Professor Mick Abbott -Activating nature, activating people: investigations in regenerative design.