| Abstract |
No doubt that we need to urgently transition towards economies that are
sustainable, and even beyond sustainable, regenerative. Those, theoretically, regenerative economies need to focus on the (bio-)regional scale, given a spatial size that includes sufficient diversity and scale to build a regenerative economy. Thinking it through, critically, question-based, yet concrete: how could such an economy look like? What are the possibilities to create such an economy with
the capacity to continuously regain its needed energies and resources to vitalize
and sustain? To actively restore degraded systems, and to create regenerative cultures, which are rooted in cooperation, not in competition? Specific to different bio-regional assets, and cultures? We propose the cross-scale spiral of autopoietic complexity, with its eight scales of governance, as an actionable heuristic to envision what a bioregional economy may comprise, and what governance needs to be established. This workshop is a question-based, partly visual dialogue around tangible entry assets for using the spiral heuristic,
manifesting its governance implications together with very concrete illustrations
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