Bioregioning overview
Building on our history of bioregioning, r3.0 is now fully dedicating itself to place-based engagement, at the fractal nested scales of the bioregion and the municipality.
Our Bioregioning work, supported by a grant from the NoVo Foundation, focuses on 3 elements are: Bioregional Convenings, Bioregional Knowledge Commons and Self-Governance.
Our Municipal work, supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SHHRC) of Canada, focuses on research and implementation of Context-Based Sustainability by municipalities. We pursue this work in collaboration with our Advocation Partner Randy Sa’d of the Flourishing Enterprise Institute and our Research Advisor Daniela Senkl of the University of Guelph.
Convenings
r3.0 has a rich history of curating convenings in diverse formats, which we are now leveraging in support of the bioregioning movement. We curating Convenings in three formats:
- Dialogues
- Conference
- Confluences
Please click for more details of these modalities.
Relational Bioregional Knowledge Commons
r3.0 dedicated its first decade to co-creating a Knowledge Commons consisting of Blueprints developed through a disciplined Due Process in collaboration with Working Groups, as well as other materials such as White Papers, Opinion Papers, Common Good Resources, and other content to support necessary transformations from status quo incrementalism and predatory delay.
We now leverage this experience to focus on building out federated
Relational Bioregional Knowledge Commons, working in collaboration with others in the bioregioning movement – including Indigenous communities who steward Indigenous sciences that have supported millennial-scale sustainable and regenerative landscape-scale ecosystem management.
We use the term “relational” in the sense that Melanie Goodchild uses it for “relational systems thinking” (see her peer-reviewed papers on this here and here) – the ability for Indigenous ways of knowing and Western ways of knowing to co-exist and complement each other.
We pursue our Relational Bioregional Knowledge Commons work along two lines in particular: Community of Inquiry & Practice (CoIP) and Content Development.
- Community of Inquiry & Practice (CoIP)
- Content Development
- From Blueprints to Seeds
- Bioregional Carrying Capacity
Self-Governing
- Co-Governance
- Sociocracy
- ProSocial
Municipalities
Complementing work at the bioregional scale, r3.0 is pursuing work at the next fractally nested scale of the municipality. This work builds on years of collaboration with our Advocation Partner, the Flourishing Enterprise Institute (FEI), and its work developing the Enterprise Evolution (EE) framework, as well as the Municipalities Adapting in Response to Complexity (MARC) partnership. More specifically, r3.0 is jointly pursuing research with FEI and the University of Guelph, in particular focusing on the application of Context-Based Sustainability (CBS) as a next level of maturity for municipalities that have implemented the Sustainable Development Goals and/or the Doughnut Framework from the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL).