Revitalizing Nature and Community,
We are delighted to share that our Vice President, Martin Brown, had the honor of being a keynote speaker at the recent Ramboll Regenerative Design Conference in Copenhagen. The event, themed “Revitalizing Nature and Community,” provided an opportunity for Martin to inspire and share valuable insights on regenerative thinking, drawing from his experience at Fairsnape and Living Future Europe.
During his keynote address, Martin posed key questions and messages, including
After 30 years of sustainability of effort, we should be celebrating, but we remain on the cusp of something wonderfully regenerative, or irreversibly disastrous. We can no longer be degenerative, or sustainable, but to need urgently into regenerative thinking and approaches
What does our planet need us to do? What does good feel like? It is no longer appropriate to ask what a good future built environment will look like, but we need to be asking what a future built environment will *feel* like. We are not and cannot be only passive observers.
Regenerative action needs co-creation and not just more collaboration (that all too often settles on the lowest common agreement reached)
A regenerative future starts with ourselves, our regenerative self, who we are, who we become, and how we show up in our teams, projects and board rooms.
Martin also co-led a Biophilic Walk through the Amager nature reserve with Martin Kielland (Ramboll), giving participants the opportunity for conversations around regenerative connection with nature and time for mindful reflection on how we feel in nature. (Martin used the biophilic walks cards and approaches used on many Living Future Europe events, most recently the Biophilic Camp in Italy).Themes from the conference were enhancing our connectivity with nature, embodied ecological impacts and moving towards being nature-positive. As Martin illustrated, the Living Building Challenge provides a uniquely holistic framework across its seven petals for projects to be nature-positive and assist in bending the curve of biodiversity loss. Indeed the Challenge was originally conceived and developed, taking the metaphor of a flower, as a nature-positive programme.
The thinking shared in the keynotes from Martin, Laura Storm (Regenerators), Jose Luis Blasco (Acconia) and Hossien Rezai-Jorabi (Ramboll Global Design Director) was used to shape the Ramboll Day 2 workshops, where, through a facilitated exercise key recommendations were voted on.
It is inspiring to note the highest voted recommendation was to implement nature as a Ramboll stakeholder, being the butterfly in boardrooms, in teams and projects. As Martin mentioned in a closing conference comment on the recommendations, “This speaks to the inner development for all, a key theme over the two days, that should give inspiration to all”
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