BECOMING REGENERATIVE
A global research initiative funded by ESRC and AHRC of the UKRI that brings together Loughborough University London, The Royal College of Art, University College London and other expected partners.
Our mission is to generate empirical knowledge on how regenerative goals translate into innovative practices, products, and services in real-world contexts.
We seek to inform diverse ventures, organisations and entrepreneurial support ecosystems in the UK and beyond, as they accelerate their own urgent transitions to regenerative innovation and address the greatest environmental and societal challenges of our time.
How do their nature-positive goals translate into novel practices, products and services in (and across) industries such as fashion, architecture, biomaterials and artificial intelligence?
And how do their engagements in interspecies creativity evolve into entrepreneurial strategies that can drive wider social and ecological impacts?
OUR TEAM
We will be recruiting post doc positions soon.
Dr Tuukka Toivonen
Principal Investigator
Reader in Regenerative Creativity
Dr Ida Telalbasic
Co-Investigator
Senior Lecturer in Service Design Innovation, Loughborough University London
Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
Co-Investigator
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Lecturer (Critical Experimental Imagination in Art and Design) Royal College of Arts
Lisja Tërshana
Digital Coordinator
MA Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins.
Dr Onyaglanu Idoko
Co-Investigator
Co-Programme leader of the MSc Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at UCL
Hannah Lyons Tsai
Research Project Manager
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Combining research and project management to support regenerative innovations
Our Advisors
Becoming Regenerative is supported by a growing and diverse board of advisors.
Prof. Elvin Karana
Materials Experience Lab, TU Delft
Prof. Sampsa Hyysalo
School of Design, Aalto University
Samantha G.R. Jenkins
Natural History Museum, Imperial College London, Biohm
Prof. Yasuaki Kakehi
Tokyo University
Prof. Carole Collet
Maison/0, Central Saint Martins
Prof. René Bohnsack
Catolica Lisbon
Our Collaborative Network
A growing collection of people, networks and organisations we collaborate with.
PARTNER UNIVERSITIES & ORGANISATIONS
News
​Our official launch event set out the aims and objectives for Becoming Regenerative alongside talks from esteemed keynote speakers Heather Barnett and James Bridle who advocated for intelligence beyond the human realm.
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You can catch the recording on our
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