The Design of Regeneration / Bioregional Finance & Alternatives

On Saturday, June 20, the Groene Hart Biennial is organizing a one-day conference with two thematic blocks: ‘The Design of Regeneration’ and ‘Bioregional Finance & Alternatives’. Our colleague Klaas Kuitenbrouwer will speak about Zoöp during the afternoon program at the roundtable session.

The conference provides an opportunity to explore issues surrounding ecological regeneration in depth, both together and in discussion with Dutch and international specialists.

Relationships with the societal, cultural, and political context play a prominent role in this exploration, while we are simultaneously investigating the significance of this for the creative disciplines (art and design) and the role they might potentially fulfil.

The language of the conference is English.

The Design of Regeneration

In the morning program until lunch, we explore how ecological regeneration can be designed within sharply different contexts (geographical, political, cultural). What new perspectives can be outlined here? How to deal with the complexity of entangled ecological, economic, technological, and political systems?

Bioregional Finance & Alternatives

The afternoon program poses the question of how usable and effective financial capacities can be developed to put ecological regenerative methods and principles into practice?

Issues of ‘scale’ play a major role in this: Should existing financial structures be ‘bent’ to bioregionally specific (agro-ecological) ways of working – as advocated by proponents of ‘Bioregional Finance’? Or should alternative models be developed instead, on a smaller scale, rooted in the local context and communities?

Read more about the program here, and more about the Groene Hart Biennial here.