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Designing for Collapse. Rebuilding for Life.
Phaedra Svec
Phaedra is an architect, regenerative systems planner and Director of Regenerative Design with McLennan Design. With over 20 years of experience in the sustainable design movement, she has served as chief sustainability trouble maker on many award-winning, high-performance projects. A master at interrupting traditional process, she creates opportunities to infuse Biomimicry and regenerative design and development processes into an integrated design process. Phaedra’s approach to regenerative design and development is holistic, systems-based, inspired by living systems and deeply personal. She believes that regenerative design is not a new set of standards or best practices to comply with, but rather a way of coming to a project with a mind intent on discovering and improving the on-going vitality of a place and its living systems.
30 Years of Building for Regeneration
For nearly three decades, we’ve been defining and advancing the idea of “living buildings”—structures that are self-sufficient, resilient, and ecologically elegant. These lessons now shape the foundation of our teaching.
The School was born from lived experience: a deep investigation into what works, what heals, and what sustains. We teach not just what’s new—but what’s next.
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