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Summary
Leen Gorissen presents nature as a source of ideas for innovation and renewal. She brings together approaches such as biomimicry, living systems thinking and regenerative design to ask how human activity can support the systems on which it depends.
The book argues for looking beyond reducing damage toward helping places and communities renew themselves. Its biological examples support the author’s proposed change in how people think about design; they are not proof that every natural pattern can be copied into an organization.
Why read it Our view
Read it to examine what a design takes from its surroundings and what it returns. Choose one example and identify the evidence, the proposed analogy and the limits of that analogy. Treat the call for regeneration as a question to test in a specific place.