A short, intensive territorial laboratory where a local community and a global community work together to understand a live challenge, prototype a response and test the conditions for a new form of regenerative governance.
Communities hold place-based knowledge. Public institutions hold mandates, budgets and democratic responsibility. Global networks hold specialised knowledge and capacity. Too often these assets remain disconnected.
Not another consultation. Not an external expert mission. Not a technology demo. The local territory becomes the learning environment; political and institutional actors become part of the action; the global network becomes a source of knowledge, capacity, verification and future funding pathways.
The Sprint separates what is often mixed together: the territorial process, the transfer of capabilities, and the infrastructure that learns from each experiment.
The seven-day experience is the visible core. The method begins with preparation so that local actors, political/institutional partners and global contributors arrive around a real challenge and a shared question.
Identify a concrete climate-resilience or territorial-governance challenge that matters locally and can lead to an institutional decision or pilot.
Identify knowledge holders, residents, organisations, public leaders, technical staff, assets, conflicts and existing initiatives.
Bring in a small, relevant group of global and regional contributors whose skills complement — rather than replace — local knowledge.
The existing 7-day Design Sprint is retained — but its purpose is reframed: the object is not merely a solution. It is the capacity of the territory to understand, organise, act and learn together.
Welcome · place · relationships · shared context
Walk the territory · meet people · gather lived knowledge
Resources · actors · flows · dependencies · institutions
Define the shared challenge and the governance question
Generate options across the territorial system
Build a first intervention with people + tools + AI
Test with local actors and decision-makers
Agree next steps · roles · evidence · 90-day pathway
The local community is not a beneficiary and the global network is not an expert parachute. Both sides teach, learn, contribute and change through the same experience.
We want to discover what makes people keep participating after the Sprint. The first pilot therefore experiments with ways to recognise contributions without reducing community life to transactions.
Make local assets, problems and dependencies visible.
Give people meaningful roles in understanding and deciding.
Value time, knowledge, care, skills, land, data and connections.
Turn contributions into shared capability and tangible prototypes.
Recognise contribution, create reciprocal benefits and invite the next contribution.
The petals are not seven departments or seven projects. They are lenses for seeing relationships. A fire-risk problem can involve land management, water, food systems, economy, community, technology and governance at the same time.
Every Sprint should leave something useful for the territory, something useful for the global network and something that improves the method itself.
The Knowledge Graph is the connective tissue: people, places, skills, resources, challenges, projects, decisions, evidence and lessons become reusable relationships.
An emerging operating layer for territorial learning: matching knowledge to needs, making contributions visible, preserving institutional memory, supporting incentive experiments and connecting credible local evidence with people, policy and capital.
TERRITORY → SPRINT → KNOWLEDGE → NETWORK → NEXT TERRITORY
The method draws on commons research and community practice, while testing how these principles can become useful to contemporary municipalities and local political leadership.
Clear boundaries, locally adapted rules, collective choice, monitoring, conflict resolution, recognised self-governance and coordination across levels.
Territory, assembly, reciprocal contribution, care, shared work, knowledge and collective life as dimensions of community capacity.
Local leaders and institutions are not observers. They help turn shared knowledge into decisions, public investment, implementation and durable governance.
Adaptive coordination: learn from each intervention, recognise contribution, connect capabilities and keep improving the system.
The Sprint is not a stand-alone pilot. It is the first field-tested module of a larger system: shared infrastructure that lets any territory regenerate itself — ecologically, socially and economically — without losing its autonomy.
We are not claiming political experience we don't have. What we bring is the capacity to convene, dynamise a territorial process, connect the right talent, and turn local knowledge into a working prototype.
Founder of regenhub.earth. Field restoration work, living-lab design and the Regen System architecture.
LINKEDIN →Field development and delivery across the regenhub network of projects.
LINKEDIN →Field development and delivery across the regenhub network of projects.
LINKEDIN →Specialist in people management within organisations — group dynamics and facilitation for the Sprint week.
We are opening a global pool of territories, talent and participants — local knowledge holders, public and institutional partners anywhere, and impact contributors willing to test the method in real life. No fixed location required: tell us where you can bring the right context, or where you'd like to bring your skills.