Regenerative Design : New Contexts, New Visions, Emerging Practices and Perspectives

This book aims to provide bases for reasoning on what opportunities the regenerative approaches to urban-architectural design and development can bring to our territories and living systems (environment, society, city and learning). It collects research, experiences and considerations from experts that present innovations from different contexts, especially from the Latin-Mediterranean context. The goal of this book is to provide the reader with case studies, analysis and guidelines, resulting from scientific research from academia and practice. The book collects research focused on topics that are nowadays crucial to understand how to intervene in the complicated contexts of socio-environmental emergencies. These studies are organized into seven sections, discussing from the importance of new narrative facing future environmental challenges, to the appropriate methodologies and approaches for regenerative culture with systemic view. The book closes with outputs, dreams and hopes of regenerative design: challenges and opportunities to rewrite our alliance with the environment and to move forward our relation with the socio-environmental capital.

Emanuele Giorgi - Director of Research and Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He develops teaching and research activities on the issues of communities and sustainable territorial development. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture obtained at the University of Pavia (Italy). He is director of the “Design for Vulnerables - Technology Challenge” research project focused on design solutions for Mexican vulnerable communities. In 2020 he published with Springer the book "The Co-Housing Phenomenon. Environmental Alliance in Times of Changes” and in 2022, with Springer again, the edited book “Design for Vulnerable Communities”.

Tiziano Cattaneo - PhD, first class registered Architect in Italy he is Associate Professor in Architectural Design at University of Pavia, Italy, where he teaches since 2007 at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture. He holds Scientific Qualification as Professor in Design at Tongji University in Shanghai where he has established the Environmental Futures Lab. at the College of Design and Innovation after having been awarded as Shanghai Talent - National High-end Foreign Expert in 2017. His research focuses on architectural design as a process to create and regenerate environments addressing contemporary conditions such as climate change, globalization, technology and urbanization. Within his international cooperation, Tiziano has been leading and co-leading research, exhibitions, workshops and scientific meetings and is collaborating on a number of projects with international institutions and organizations in Europe, China and recently in Mexico in the field of shared landscape, urban resilience and sustainable communities.

Carlos Cobreros - Phd. in Engineering, Master in Architecture, Master in “Architecture, Energy and Environment”, Diploma in “Bioenvironmental Design” and Architect. Research Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, and part of the national system of researchers in México. He has taught postgraduate courses as a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Querétaro in México, Universidad de La Salle Bajío, Aalto University and the University of Seville, Spain. Part of the Research Group "Sustainable Development of the Territory", he co-coordinates the postgraduate Diploma in “Regenerative Design. Resilient Territories and Cities” and coordinates the Minor Degree in Regenerative Design. Also, he coordinates the NatRural lab program of research, thinking and regenerative and systemic design. His design, teaching and research are focused on sustainable and regenerative design, natRural design, biophilic design and access to nature and regenerative learning, from social innovation, fundamentally in contexts with a high degree of vulnerability and emerging natural and rural contexts.