In this pilot series of Bioregional Conversations, we discuss the different practical ways in which Bioregioning is taking shape around the world.

These talks are a ‘prequel’ to a peer-to-peer learning community of learning centres keen to learn from each other.

In this episode, I introduce some projects from my home base in the Cévennes, in France. I then talk with JAN BOELEN, director of Atelier Luma in the Camargue bioregion of France; BRENDAN DUNFORD talks about The Burren and 6,000 years of farmed landscape in Ireland; and CHRIS CHAPMAN of Burren College of Art talks about the role of art and design in building bioregional relationships.

 

JOHN THACKARA SLIDES


Urban-Rural projects

Urban-Rural Projects HIGHLIGHTS 2005-2015

Bioregioning: Pathways To Urban-Rural Reconnection (papeer)
https://new.thackara.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Bioregioning_-Pathways-to-Urban-Rural-Reconnection.pdf

Agro-Pastoralism in France: Training the Next-Generation of Graziers in Europe

http://fibershed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/shepherding-school-report-Sept-2017-compressed.pdf

Etka Mondo – 1er Bassin-Mare d’Irrigation en Cévennes https://etikamondo.com/

Artisans Pierres Seches https://www.pierreseche.fr/

Local food relationships
 –Oasis Movement (Les Colibris) https://www.colibris-universite.org/

5,000 projects (Fabrique des Transitions, Aides Territoires, 
 https://aides-territoires.beta.gouv.fr/
17:40 Terre de Liens https://terredeliens.org/

JAN BOELEN SLIDES

Atelier Luma, Bio-Design-Lab https://www.luma.org/en/arles/atelierluma/atelier-luma.html
23:13

Book: Bioregional Design Practices

BRENDAN DUNFORD SLIDES

Farming For Nature https://www.farmingfornature.ie/events/farm-walks/

Field-by-field: paying for results + reduced paperwork 
https://burrenbeo.com/thc/

“Celebrate, don’t criticize” https://www.burrenwinterage.com/

Farming For Nature Ambassador https://www.farmingfornature.ie/events/current-ambassadors/

Bioregional Conversations: THE BACKGROUND

Bioregional Regeneration Summit https://www.regencommunities.net/summit/

 

The founding group is:

Isabel Carlisle (South Devon Bioregion, England); 
 Stuart Cowan (CEO Buckminster Fuller Institute); 
 John Thackara (France); 
 Udi Mandel (Hawaii); 
 Oscar Gussinyer (Catalonia); 
 Melina Angel (Colombia); 
 Eduard Muller (Costa Rica)

 

Session 07 May 2024
Hosted by Isabel Carlisle of the South Devon Bioregion in conversation with Scottish colleagues Elle Adams in the Findhorn Watershed and Clare Cooper of Bioregioning Tayside

Session 21 May
Hosted by Melina Angel of Colombia Regenerativa with Latin American colleagues Juan José López (Córdoba, Colombia) and Alexis Catalán Caniulef (Wallmapu, Chile)

Session 04 June
Hosted by John Thackara with Irish colleagues Brendan Dunford of Burrenbeo Trust and Chris Chapman of Burren College of Art plus Jan Boelen, Artistic Director, Atelier Luma, Camargue bioregion, France.

Session 18 June
Hosted by Stuart Cowan (CEO of the Buckminster Fuller Institute) with the Bay Delta Trust (San Francisco Bay, USA) and Regenerate Cascadia (Pacific Northwest, USA)

Session 02 July
Eduard Muller of Costa Rica Regenerativa with Edgar Mora (Costa Rica urban component) and Costa Rica Regenerative agriculture and biodiversity