These are my reflective notes as I work through chapter two of Daniel Wahl’s ‘Designing Regenerative Cultures‘. My aim in this reading is to find clues as to what a set of principles for regenerative design for engineers could look like.
Wahl introduces three types of innovation:
- Sustaining innovation – that which keeps the current system working
- Disruptive innovation – that which introduces new operating systems
- Transformative innovation – that which is the ‘long-term innovation process of fundamental changes in culture and identity.
He argues that if we want to achieve a transition towards a regenerative culture, it is this third kind of innovation that we need.
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