The regenerative city: a new framework for urban development

What: Research presentation & dialogue

When: Tuesday 24 March

Time: Doors open 19:45, start 20:00, end 22:00

Where: On the Ceuvel, In the Metabolic lab

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Admission: Free

About this evening

During the Week of the Circular Economy, designer and researcher Joris de Leeuw presents an in depth exploration of what it means to make cities regenerative. Join the conversation and leave inspired, equipped with thought provoking questions and a fresh perspective to take your own practice a step further. This research was carried out on behalf of the Municipality of Amsterdam and is being shared publicly for the first time here.

The transition to a new, circular economy requires more than smart material use and closed resource loops alone. It calls for a different approach to the city itself. Cities that are not only less harmful, but also actively repair damage.

What makes a city regenerative? How can we design urban systems that restore ecosystems, strengthen local communities, and build long term resilience? Through research into international best practices, a newly developed assessment framework, and design sketches for a regenerative urban model, we reflect on concrete examples and the insights that emerge from them.

We conclude with a look at Amsterdam: where are the opportunities for our city to integrate regenerative principles into policy, design, and implementation? How can this perspective support ongoing challenges such as climate adaptation, inclusion, reusing space, and building a resilient city that can deal with uncertainty, change, and shocks?

Questions we will explore together:

• Can cities be not only less bad, but truly do good for all life?
• Which design principles help apply regenerative thinking in urban development?
• Which concrete interventions are conceivable, and at what scales, to make cities
  truly regenerative?

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See you at De Ceuvel!