Evaluating the Practice and Outcomes of Applying Regenerative Development to a Large-Scale Project in Victoria, Australia

Dominique Hes, André Stephan and Sareh Moosavi
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Dominique Hes: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
André Stephan: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Sareh Moosavi: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-24

Abstract: Regenerative development is one of the critical pathways or processes towards an ecological worldview and a built environment in synergy with the natural environment. This vision aims to restore and support environmental, social and economic flows from a systems perspective. While regenerative development has been discussed in theory and applied to some projects, very few studies have analysed the processes that support its emergence. Our study investigates the design process of an ongoing development project, “Seacombe West” in Victoria, Australia. It evaluates the design outputs, using the LENSES Framework (Living Environments in Natural, Social, and Economic Systems) which is specifically designed to facilitate the emergence of regenerative development thinking. The project included a series of four workshops that led to a set of guidelines that in turn were used to design a masterplan. We evaluate the resulting guidelines, the masterplan, and the experience of the participants through an online survey (70% response rate) and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders. Our results show that using LENSES encouraged systems thinking and helps facilitate a transdisciplinary approach towards regenerative development. This evaluation provides insights into how regenerative development can emerge in projects and how the potential for net benefit can be embedded.

Keywords: net regenerative regional development; ecological worldview; LENSES Framework; transdisciplinary design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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