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Energy & infrastructure
Energy & infrastructure
Generating, importing, storing, distributing and managing renewable energy; creating a clean and potable water supply, sewage treatment, with circular resource management, all reducing the cost of living.
Buildings
& fabric
Buildings & fabric
Sourcing materials from our bioregion, ‘mining the Anthropocene’ (as architect Duncan Baker Brown has it) for salvage and reuse; use of regenerative and low impact materials, finding safe ways to use engineered and other timber; kickstarting local timber industries.
Homes
Homes
Creating compact but beautifully proportioned and well lit, super-insulated homes. Using raw structure with occupant-led finishes; super-efficient appliances; accessible roofs for gardening, food growing and ecology. Manual for ease of maintenance and repairs; shared storage, housing for bikes of all kinds, laundries, tools and common areas.
Sustainable mobility
Sustainable mobility
Encouraging walking and cycling as the primary means of movement, with safe, green streets, short blocks, inviting corners and excellent connectivity. Co-mobility services, including EV car club and hire, centralised parking and EV shuttle service.
Stewardship & services
Stewardship & services
Facilitating professional, commercial and community enterprises that own, build, maintain, repair buildings and building fabric, gardens, streets, energy systems, co-mobility services, shared community spaces, local composting, waste collection, re-use and recycling.
Enterprise
& creativity
Enterprise & creativity
Providing multiple spaces for enterprise from home and co-working, studios, hybrid social spaces, makers spaces, events and meetings spaces. Local expertise in circularity and business support.
Affordable living & community wealth
Affordable living
& community wealth
Creating mixed-income communities with more expensive homes to support the provision of affordable homes; different kinds of affordable tenures, institutional private rent, co-housing; shared spaces and facilities; community canteen; local food scheme; collective insurance, affordable energy, estate management; hiring and purchasing locally.
Catalytic conversations
Catalytic conversations
Engaging in conversations – from deep purpose to key themes – effective listening and deliberative processes, creating important agents of change. New ways emerge as opportunities, not constraints; finding ways to agree upon strategy and actions for exponential sustainability.
Land use
& place
Land use & place
Shaping urban structure and form through iterative and transdisciplinary design, marshalling streets, blocks, plots, roofscapes, townscapes and landscapes to create beautiful mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods that will stand the test of time. Selection of land-use types to ensure mixed-use neighbourhoods and buildings and curating the choice of tenants in pursuit of HN purposes
Bioregion & ecosystems
Bioregion & ecosystems
Connecting optimised urban ecology to other ecologies; sourcing food from regenerative farms; low-carbon materials from the bioregion; cycling and going slower to better understand a place and its context, creating new habitats and encouraging biodiversity.
Behaviour
& culture
Behaviour & culture
Encouraging and enabling people to live sustainably, creating Everyday Heroes who – as per climate scientist Peter Kalmus – inspire others to make positive changes, ultimately creating happier, healthier lifestyles and communities.
Public health & wellbeing
Public health & wellbeing
Designing compact neighbourhoods that reduce social isolation, loneliness and depression; promoting walking and cycling; neighbourliness; healthy food sourcing; creating active living and fitness centres and trails and primary and complementary health and social care.
Energy & infrastructure
Energy & infrastructure
Generating, importing, storing, distributing and managing renewable energy; creating a clean and potable water supply, sewage treatment, with circular resource management, all reducing the cost of living.
Buildings
& fabric
Buildings & fabric
Sourcing materials from our bioregion, ‘mining the Anthropocene’ (as architect Duncan Baker Brown has it) for salvage and reuse; use of regenerative and low impact materials, finding safe ways to use engineered and other timber; kickstarting local timber industries.
Homes
Homes
Creating compact but beautifully proportioned and well lit, super-insulated homes. Using raw structure with occupant-led finishes; super-efficient appliances; accessible roofs for gardening, food growing and ecology. Manual for ease of maintenance and repairs; shared storage, housing for bikes of all kinds, laundries, tools and common areas.
Sustainable mobility
Sustainable mobility
Encouraging walking and cycling as the primary means of movement, with safe, green streets, short blocks, inviting corners and excellent connectivity. Co-mobility services, including EV car club and hire, centralised parking and EV shuttle service.
Stewardship & services
Stewardship & services
Facilitating professional, commercial and community enterprises that own, build, maintain, repair buildings and building fabric, gardens, streets, energy systems, co-mobility services, shared community spaces, local composting, waste collection, re-use and recycling.
Enterprise
& creativity
Enterprise & creativity
Providing multiple spaces for enterprise from home and co-working, studios, hybrid social spaces, makers spaces, events and meetings spaces. Local expertise in circularity and business support.
Affordable living & community wealth
Affordable living
& community wealth
Creating mixed-income communities with more expensive homes to support the provision of affordable homes; different kinds of affordable tenures, institutional private rent, co-housing; shared spaces and facilities; community canteen; local food scheme; collective insurance, affordable energy, estate management; hiring and purchasing locally.
Catalytic conversations
Catalytic conversations
Engaging in conversations – from deep purpose to key themes – effective listening and deliberative processes, creating important agents of change. New ways emerge as opportunities, not constraints; finding ways to agree upon strategy and actions for exponential sustainability.
Land use
& place
Land use & place
Shaping urban structure and form through iterative and transdisciplinary design, marshalling streets, blocks, plots, roofscapes, townscapes and landscapes to create beautiful mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods that will stand the test of time. Selection of land-use types to ensure mixed-use neighbourhoods and buildings and curating the choice of tenants in pursuit of HN purposes
Bioregion & ecosystems
Bioregion & ecosystems
Connecting optimised urban ecology to other ecologies; sourcing food from regenerative farms; low-carbon materials from the bioregion; cycling and going slower to better understand a place and its context, creating new habitats and encouraging biodiversity.
Behaviour
& culture
Behaviour & culture
Encouraging and enabling people to live sustainably, creating Everyday Heroes who – as per climate scientist Peter Kalmus – inspire others to make positive changes, ultimately creating happier, healthier lifestyles and communities.
Public health & wellbeing
Public health & wellbeing
Designing compact neighbourhoods that reduce social isolation, loneliness and depression; promoting walking and cycling; neighbourliness; healthy food sourcing; creating active living and fitness centres and trails and primary and complementary health and social care.
Energy & infrastructure
Energy & infrastructure
Generating, importing, storing, distributing and managing renewable energy; creating a clean and potable water supply, sewage treatment, with circular resource management, all reducing the cost of living.
Buildings
& fabric
Buildings & fabric
Sourcing materials from our bioregion, ‘mining the Anthropocene’ (as architect Duncan Baker Brown has it) for salvage and reuse; use of regenerative and low impact materials, finding safe ways to use engineered and other timber; kickstarting local timber industries.
Homes
Homes
Creating compact but beautifully proportioned and well lit, super-insulated homes. Using raw structure with occupant-led finishes; super-efficient appliances; accessible roofs for gardening, food growing and ecology. Manual for ease of maintenance and repairs; shared storage for bikes, laundries, tools and common areas.
Sustainable mobility
Sustainable mobility
Encouraging walking and cycling as the primary means of movement, with safe, green streets, short blocks, inviting corners and excellent connectivity. Co-mobility services, including EV car club and hire, centralised parking and EV shuttle service.
Stewardship & services
Stewardship & services
Facilitating professional, commercial and community enterprises that own, build, maintain, repair buildings and building fabric, gardens, streets, energy systems, co-mobility services, shared community spaces, local composting, waste collection, re-use and recycling.
Enterprise
& creativity
Enterprise & creativity
Providing multiple spaces for enterprise from home and co-working, studios, hybrid social spaces, makers spaces, events and meetings spaces. Local expertise in circularity and business support.
Affordable living & community wealth
Affordable living
& community wealth
Creating mixed-income communities; more expensive homes to support affordable homes; different affordable tenures, institutional private rent, co-housing; shared spaces and facilities; community canteen; local food scheme; collective insurance, affordable energy, estate management; hiring and purchasing locally.
Catalytic conversations
Catalytic conversations
Engaging in conversations – from deep purpose to key themes – effective listening and deliberative processes, creating important agents of change. New ways emerge as opportunities, not constraints; finding ways to agree upon strategy and actions for exponential sustainability.
Land use
& place
Land use & place
Shaping urban structure and form, using streets, blocks, plots, roofscapes, townscapes and landscapes to create beautiful mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods that will stand the test of time. Selection of land-use types to ensure mixed-use neighbourhoods and buildings and curating the choice of tenants in pursuit of HN purposes
Bioregion & ecosystems
Bioregion & ecosystems
Connecting optimised urban ecology to other ecologies; sourcing food from regenerative farms; low-carbon materials from the bioregion; cycling and going slower to better understand a place and its context, creating new habitats and encouraging biodiversity.
Behaviour
& culture
Behaviour & culture
Encouraging and enabling people to live sustainably, creating Everyday Heroes who – as per climate scientist Peter Kalmus – inspire others to make positive changes, ultimately creating happier, healthier lifestyles and communities.
Public health & wellbeing
Public health & wellbeing
Designing compact neighbourhoods that reduce social isolation, loneliness and depression; promoting walking and cycling; neighbourliness; healthy food sourcing; creating active living and fitness centres and trails and primary and complementary health and social care.