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From Surviving to Thriving. Regenerative Sustainability for the UK Social Housing Sector

The Regenerative Playbook – Getting Started with Regenerative Thinking in Your Organisation

RESTORD: A Regenerative guide for Educators. Students and Practitioners 2021

Restory: The Story of RESTORE 2021

Scale Jumping & System Thinking for Urban Planners

Squaring The Circle (chapter contributor) 2019

Regenerative Design in the Digital Practice 2019 (Section Editor)

Regenerative Construction 2018 (Section Editor)

Sustainability: Restorative to Regenerative 2017 (co-author)

FutuREstorative, Working towards a New Sustainability RIBA 2016

Public Private Partnerships, Towards New Innovative Collaborations 2015

Constructing Social Media Editorial for Journal of Construction Innovation, 2014

More Better: an evaluation of the potential of alternative approaches to inform housing delivery in Wales 2016

Community-Based Facilities Management. Facilities Journal 

Regenerative Design in the Digital Practice

Published September 2019

A Handbook for the Built Environment Edited by Emanuele Naboni and Lisanne Havinga  Architectural design can no longer only be concerned with developing artefacts that produce reduced environmental impacts within a certain threshold of emissions. Conversely, buildings today must be developed to reverse the effects of climate change, enhance natural systems, the built environment and inhabitants’ life.

This book, “Regenerative Design in the Digital Practice” explores how the regenerative concept is now being applied to the regenerative design of cities and buildings. A series of digital design approaches are exemplified via a series of examples drawn from leading international practitioners and researchers. 

“Regenerative Design in the Digital Practice” fills a gap in the existing literature by introducing fundamental design principles of regenerative design practice whilst acknowledging the potential and imperative of integrating science, big data and multi-discipline digital tools in the design process. 

Squaring the Circle

Squaring the Circle is a cutting-edge and comprehensive collection of the latest research and debate on normal childbirth. Based on a salutogenic approach – focusing on factors that support human health and well-being, rather than on factors that cause disease – it helps our understanding of what works and why it works, as well as helping health practitioners turn this knowledge into best practice.

Written by world-renowned experts in their field, and edited by Soo Downe and Sheena Byrom, the editors of the acclaimed The Roar Behind the Silence, Squaring the Circle includes an examination of a range of associated evidence in areas as diverse as architecture for optimal birth environments, the impact of birth events on neonatal DNA methylation and the microbiome, the current knowledge base around oxytocin production in labour, and the role of emotion in the workplace.

Case studies of successful change from around the world – from service users, activists and maternity care staff – provide inspiration for innovation while hints and tips help to make such change happen.

Martin Brown, co-authored the biophilic design chapter Natural Connections: Biophilic Birthplace Design , with Tracey Cooper

Regenerative Construction and Operation

Published May 2019

This publication collates the thoughts developed by the participants of RESTORE Working Group 3, investigating and proposing robust approaches helping the paradigm shift, from the procurement to the operation and maintenance phases.

• Procurement – considering what follows design stage and proceeds construction phase, including bidding, tendering, procurement
• Construction – from the preparation of the site up to the management of the construction site, including materials and technologies used during the construction process
• Use & Operation – starting from the commissioning and going through the operation and maintenance of the building
• Second Life – considering what is happening to the building after its preliminary life, including refurbishment, retrofitting, reuse, adaptation, and in the worst case, demolition and dismantling

Sustainability Restorative to Regenerative 

Published May 2018

ISBN 978-3-9504607-0-4

EU COST RESTORE Action Publication

An exploration in progressing a paradigm shift in built environment thinking, from sustainability to restorative sustainability and on to regenerative sustainability

This publication explores: a language for sustainability that inspires, not confuses; a Social and Wellbeing world view of our place on the planet, Living Buildings that are restorative and regenerative and an essential component of climate change solutions; a Regenerative Heritage that shares memories of place from the past and provides lessons for the future; and Regenerative Economic thinking that is shifting the built environment from linear economics to regenerative economies.

To progress from the state of the art to a vision of Regenerative Sustainability, a number of triggers are identified: Rethinking EDUCATION to inspire the next generation; a re-connection with NATURE through Biophilic and Ecological Design; a sense of PLACE rooted in local, culturally rich and ecologically sound built environments and a CIRCULAR ECONOMY that moves us from limited growth to Regenerative Economies.

The future starts now, a future that has to be more cohesive, fair and sustainable. To achieve this goal our human actions have to embrace a different vision, one in which our sustainable well-being emerges from our love for the planet.

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FutuREstorative: Working Towards a New Sustainability

ISBN: 9781859466308

Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Date Published: Aug 2016

This book furthers the debate on new sustainability thinking in the built environment by bringing together a selection of contributions from thought leaders in the UK and the rest of the world with an overarching narrative from Martin Brown.

Central to the book is the emergence of net positive and restorative sustainability, exploring the shift from an often blinkered focus on sustainability as simply energy performance to a more roundedsocial, wellness, health and healthy buildings debate.

It also spotlights sharing and collaboration through social media and BIM as new tools in the ‘sustainability toolbox’ which provide opportunities to rapidly advance sustainability thinking, development and action.

Available via RIBA Bookshops.

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