PUBLICATIONS
Advancing regenerative design and innovation through publications and international recognition
“Re-Ontologising Opportunity: A More-Than-Human Perspective of Regenerative Entrepreneurship”
Yuki Xueqi Yuan
“Becoming Regenerative Beyond the Venture: Designing Critical Systemic Transitions”
Katie Pfeiffer and Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
5th International Transition Design Conference, Mexico City, conference paper July 2026
“Against Scalar Inevitabilities”
Katie Pfeiffer and Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
“From Immortal Materials to New Mortals: Temporal Ethics in Regenerative Material Design”
Katie Pfeiffer
Matter, Rhizomes, and More-than-Human Sociology Annual Conference, London, conference paper June 2026
“Regenerative Notions of Traceability: Between Care, Control, and Connection”
Katie Pfeiffer
The Politics of Traceability: How Knowledge, Artifacts, and Beings Have Been Tracked, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus, conference paper May 2026
“Regenerative materials and the mark of a more-than-human maker”
Katie Pfeiffer
Values Against Valorisation: Ethnographic Relations, ECR and PGR Conference, Manchester, conference paper May 2026
“Multispecies Business Model Innovation in Nature-Positive, Regenerative Ventures”
Yuki Xueqi Yuan and Tuukka Toivonen
The 22nd Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, Lausanne, conference paper April 2026
“The Fifth Industrial Regenerative Revolution (5IRR) – Ontological, Pedagogical and Entrepreneurial approaches”
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Katie Pfeiffer and Amina Abbas-Nazar
Cumulus Conference, Cape Town, conference paper November 2025
“Becoming Regenerative: Navigating values, systems, and imagination in design education and entrepreneurial practice”
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Katie Pfeiffer and Laetitia Forst
World Design Congress, London, September 2025. Published page 29 proceedings 2025
“‘Becoming regenerative’ and the challenge of planning for value-led research on transformative futures”
Katie Pfeiffer, Onyaglanu Idoko, Tuukka Toivonen and Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
41st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, conference paper July 2025
“The mark of the more-than-human maker: valuing nature’s labor within regenerative materials”
Katie Pfeiffer
Energy in Motion: Climate Emotion, Energy Futures, and The Arts, Dundee, conference paper June 2025
“Cultivating a Regenerative Imagination at Art and Design Universities”
Tuukka Toivonen and Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD13 October 2024. Article 65, proceedings 2025
“Towards Regenerative Material Design and Innovation: Overcoming Multi-Level Barriers”
Tuukka Toivonen and Melenie Hecker
Journal of Innovation Management Vol. 12, No.2 October 2024
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EVENTS
Hosting spaces for dialogue, imagination and regenerative futures
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Ways of Becoming Regenerative: Learning from ecological thinkers, artists and indigenous wisdom
October 2025
Public Dialogue Event and Workshop series
Hosted by Becoming Regenerative with support from the Climate and Ecological Transitions Research Hub at Loughborough University London, this event offered a unique opportunity to rethink regeneration and regenerative futures from a fresh intercultural perspective.
The event brought several prominent Japanese regenerative activators into dialogue with leading regenerative design thinkers, researchers and practitioners in this area. The full day event uncovered novel insights and potent interrelations beyond disciplinary boundaries and entrenched dualisms.
From intercultural discussions on the meanings of regeneration to a profound Suiten no Kotoba card workshop with Ecological Memes, the day invited participants to explore regeneration through multiple lenses: creative, ecological and relational. These paved the way towards a culturally enriched understanding of how regenerative traditions can be fostered and built upon in the 21st century.
The evening’s talks and panel with Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Michael Pawlyn, Saori Ogura, and members of the Becoming Regenerative team sparked inspiring conversations that continued well into the networking reception.
Watch a recording of the evening dialogue here
And read the blog post for our event reflections here
Becoming Regenerative Launch Event
October 2024
Keynote Speakers, Panel Discussion and Music Performance
Introducing the B-Regen team, our aims and vision to an audience of 100+ in-person attendees (and similar online registrations). Keynote speakers James Bridle and Heather Barnett delivered two thought-provoking sessions on developing more-than-human sensibilities followed by an expert panel discussing the current challenges and opportunities in implementing regenerative practices across various contexts.
The event also featured a music performance by artist Jamie Perera.
Watch a playlist of the event recordings here.
MEDIA
Sharing regenerative design and innovation insights globally
“Future of Regenerative Design”
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar in conversation with Lisa Gralnek December 2025
IF Design Future of XYZ Podcast
“Responsible Innovation & Impact Report 2024”
“Designing for More than Human Worlds”
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar and Rob Phillips in conversation with Ron Wakkary December 2024