I’m pleased to be able to share that I am working on a new book, due to be published later this spring. 

‘The Pattern Book for Regenerative Design – a practice guide for engineers and other humans’

The book is for change-makers in the built who want to transform our industry into a force for good: 

  • one that creates thriving communities and ecosystems through our work; 
  • an industry that is as conscious about where we make and where we take. 
  • an industry that knows that every time we build something, we have the opportunity to shift the system.

This is a book for people who dream about the future but who have a job in the present. Who see the potential for the systems we design and inhabit to be much better, but see a very different reality in their projects. And for those who feel the gap between the future we need and the systems we have now is too wide to span. 

In the Regenerative Structural Engineer, James Norman set out the case for Regenerative Design. It was the first book to set out a theory base for regenerative design in the context of structural engineering, and collects together dozens of examples of brilliant examples of this theory in action. 

If you are new to regenerative design, I’d highly recommend you start there. And even if you are familiar with the theory from other sources, it’s worth taking a look at because it provides the foundations upon which we build in this guide.

From theory to practice.

You’ve read about regenerative design. You are excited about its goals; or you are at least curious to find out more about how it could work. This practice guide is to help you take the next step.

Practice is the application of theory. It is the habitual way we work. It is the patterns we repeat whether we are: 

  • Supporting individual clients
  • Building a new portfolio of work
  • Transforming a business or an institution
  • Teaching regenerative design
  • Shaping policy in the built environment, or
  • Developing our personal regenerative practice.

Our patterns of work are made up of tools, models, processes, and ways of communicating. We stitch all of these together to create a pattern of practice that best suits the project we are working on.

This book is to help you stitch together patterns of practice that not only helps you deliver on your projects – but also embeds regenerative thinking in your work, so that each project stacks up to creating a thriving future. 

As I write I’ll be serialising the early content on this blog. Stay tuned.