Regenerative Development in Practice: Designing Living Systems for Thriving Places and Communities

Regenerative Development in Practice: Designing Living Systems for Thriving Places and Communities

Date: 5 November 2026, 4:00 PM CEST

Speaker:  Avery Hardy, Associate Director Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice

Avery is a socioecological systems regeneration practitioner, educator, and advocate based in Mexico City. For the last 15 years she has studied, applied, researched, and taught on regenerative land stewardship, permaculture, agroecology, and ecological design across a wide variety of projects, including overseeing land stewardship research for academic institutions, designing small-scale regenerative farms, leading science-based educational programs on these and related topics, and more. She has a B.S. in Natural Resource Management and Forestry, two minors in Sustainable Environmental Design and City & Regional Planning, and a certificate in urban agroecology research, all from UC Berkeley. She has worked across a diversity of organizations at the nexus of applied land regeneration and ecological science, including at the University of California’s Natural…