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Placemaking for Your Regenerative Community
As my poem suggests, placemaking is a sacred connection between land, people, and purpose. It’s a practice rooted in listening, co-creating, and shaping spaces that reflect both the past and future of a community.
This is especially true in regenerative communities, where placemaking serves as the anchor for building a shared vision.
In What is Regenerative Placemaking?, I talk about the lack of anchoring in most communities. If you want to anchor your community, you need to placemake.
Traditionally, placemaking is used by urban governments to understand the populace they are developing for. The process helps design and manage public areas with intentionality.
Founders and members of regenerative communities, urban or not, should placemake. You might say that building ecovillages is one big regenerative placemaking process.
Even if you are building a network state of interconnected nodes, you must root each community's identity in their specific location.
This is a process of:
Choosing where your community/regen project will be
Building vibrant, community-led projects
Nurturing local relationships
In other words: where to build, what to build, and who to build it with.
Where to Build
When choosing land, there is a deep placemaking process that needs to happen before, during, and beyond your land search.
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