RED&Pro

The project

RED&Pro (Regenerative Ecologies of Design and Production for European Heritage) positions Europe’s cultural heritage as a driver of the green and digital transitions. It moves the goal from sustainability as a baseline to regenerative design as a cultural orientation, bringing together designers, craft practitioners, industries and policymakers in sectors from textiles and ceramics to woodworking, metalwork and architecture.

The project draws on Research through Design and Commons-Based Peer Production, and has three objectives:

• Develop a Regenerative Design Framework and make it accessible
• Train hybrid design professionals with skills in environmental care, cultural sensitivity and emerging technologies
• Prototype bioregional RED-Labs as living laboratories for education and professionalisation

Six RED-Labs are located in Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Ukraine. Each one pairs an urban design hub with a rural, nature-based partner.

Our contribution

Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC coordinates RED&Pro: it manages the project, its financial administration and the relationship with the European Commission. It is also one of the six pilot sites and contributes to the Regenerative Design Repository.

Who is it for?

Designers and makers, educational institutions, creative hubs and fab labs, SMEs and cultural industries, and policymakers.

Project outputs

• Regenerative Design Framework with blueprints for practitioners
• Hybrid Design Academy with 18 educational micro modules
• Digital Regenerative Design Repository, with git-based versioning, Digital Product Passports and AI-supported material intelligence
• Six pilot case studies with Research through Design artefacts
• Policy white paper and briefs on regenerative design and bioregions