rings of regeneration
Rings of Regeneration: Opening Spaces for Sustainable Creative Practices at Fly Ranch
Team: Emily Nicolosi, Anna Kissell
Project Overview
Key to achieving environmental sustainability and justice is moving from linear systems that require high inputs, offer low use time, and produce extraordinary waste to systems that are circular. Circularity enables regenerative capacities through looping the lifecycle of products in a cradle-to-cradle system of creation, use and upcycling. It requires a rethinking of the social and environmental exploitation embedded in current systems to re-align the interests of humanity and nature.
The concept of circularity is embedded not only metaphorically, but also literally within the overall design of this project, which proposes a series of concentric circles and is reflective of both Native American symbology and the strong Burning Man cultural identification with the urban plan of Black Rock City.
Rings of Regeneration proposes an urban design that identifies and redirects pathways for commonly overlooked or discarded materials to be transformed towards new productive purposes. Three rings corresponding to purposes of Collection, Processing, and Outputs are situated within sectors (transecting pie slices) that focus on a specific material, natural (e.g. earth) or upcycled (e.g. plastic, wood, metal).Â
