Digital Tools
Practical insights from 19 re:build sessions on implementing digital tools in regenerative villages.
Definition
Digital tools represent a new category of technology that we're exploring—technologies that work with our biological nature as social beings, rather than against it. These tools can harmonize our basic biology with our bio-social core needs and emerging technologies.
Key Principles
- Biological harmony: Digital tools should harmonize our basic biology with the bio-social core needs that humans have, working with emerging technologies rather than against our nature
- Optimized systems: The most effective building systems combine low-embodied energy, high strength, and healthy biothermic materials with optimized geometry (like geodesic domes) that minimize material requirements, eliminate cross-beams, and enable efficient manufacturing through 3D printing and other modern techniques
Methods and Approaches
Our purpose was to create, kind of backgrounds for digital environments and entrepreneurs, and so, yeah, the artists created them and they created them and I think that's what I think is the best way to do that
This is a, you know, full structure building technology, you're not actually, youic domes that are molded, precast, in factories, highly automated kind of injection molding processes can just be the most affordable and sustainable homes on earth
Benefits
- And so we're really thinking a lot about how technology can help with that
- Revealager about myself about what we're really, the problem we're really focused on, and how we're using technology to try to help solve some of the, some of the ways in which it's going to interact with villages
- But ultimately, I think this technology puts us on a trajectory of just radical affordability as well as all these health and ecological benefits
- As an edge computer that essentially is a digital tool to continuously be aware of how it can improve or mitigate against risk, or where it could be modeling and suggesting new components, right
- The same way that what's available is built, that the software can continue to look at itself and imagine itself to how it can improve how it can get better
Key Insights
Abundant solutions: Digital tools offer abundant solutions across energy technology and many other domains.
Energy manipulation: Some technologies use spiraling materials and specific geometries to move energy in intentional ways, creating functional spaces.
Scalable models: Different forms of regenerative agriculture and energy technology complement community models, can be explored within communities, and can be scaled in various forms throughout the world.
Bridge to better world: Technology can serve as a bridge to a happier, more sustainable world when designed with regenerative principles.
Resistance to technology: In regenerative work, scientists, agriculturalists, and restoration specialists are often resistant to technology, sometimes because large markets focus on measuring components that don't affect the majority of the world.
Focus on major impacts: Agriculture accounts for a significant portion of greenhouse gases. It's important to focus on major impact areas rather than minor contributors.
Examples and Case Studies
So the protection is a new technology to raise innovative ideas, visionaries, sustainable projects, and also new traditions
We don't want to complicate things to make things even more digital than there are because again, this project didn't start it, it's situated in an existing place
But in short order provides tools for communities, projects, organizations to build the new type of technology
There's so much exciting technology in terms of organic bio-dynamic farming interventions that are robotic and robotic assisted, just by one way of example, or geoship, for instance, in terms of the built environment in terms of cladding or in terms of design thinking, lots of different opportunities to model
Best Practices
- Embrace technology wisely: Smart communities embrace technology that serves their values and goals
- Resource awareness: The materials needed for digital technology (computer chips, etc.) already exist but are often locked up in waste streams mixed with radioactive materials and other components
- Software-based solutions: Many digital tools are software-based, operating in digital spaces that enable collaboration and coordination
- Spiritual technology: Some practices combine movement, healing, body energy work, and planetary consciousness—these functional practices can be thought of as "spiritual technology" that supports both individual and collective well-being
Implementation Guide
To implement digital tools in your regenerative village project, consider the following approach:
Implementation details to be added.
Technical Specifications
Technical specifications, standards, and requirements to be added.
External Resources
For deeper exploration of this topic, see:
- Operating System Regenerative Civilization - Digital infrastructure for regenerative systems
Real-World Examples
These partners are actively implementing digital tools in their projects:
Spatial Experience
Spatial Experience operates as an innovation hub at the intersection of design, technology, and research, partnering with real estate investors, developers, and operators to co-...
Happiness Foundation
The Happiness Foundation is a global think tank at the intersection of technology, economics, and design, bringing together leading minds to reimagine how to prioritize happines...
Medicine Festival
Medicine is a gathering to inspire authentic connection and regeneration for people and planet.