Architects Declare has produced a new Regenerative Design Primer - launched in 2024 - to help architects and other designers lead the transition away from degenerative, destructive built environment practices that perpetuate the planetary emergency to regenerative design that creates positive outcomes for people and the natural systems we are part of. It supports Architects Declare's new Regenerative Architecture Index, adopting the same core principles of Being a Good Ancestor, Co-evolving with Nature, and Creating a Just Space for People. The Primer complements the Practice Guide (2021), replacing the short chapter there on regenerative design.

Architects Declare hopes it will speak to all who really care about the future and meeting their full commercial, social and environmental aspirations.

You can now watch the video from Architects Declare's October 2024 Regenerative Design Resources event, which gives a walkthrough of the Primer and the need for regenerative design for the built environment as well as signposting a range of other key resources others have brought to this critical challenge.