ABSTRACT
As a paradigm born from the ecological worldview, regenerative practice has to contend with the complexity of whole living systems. The ecological worldview presents a universe that consists of dynamic relationships and the processes they engender. The complex system has a multiplicity of interacting feedback loops with internal rates of flow that are controlled by non-linear relationships. A network perspective on social-ecological systems provides a useful method of analysis as the different attributes of a social-ecological system, like trust, information, power, flow of resources, can be presented as a network consisting of both human nodes and non-human nodes. The challenge of modeling specifically to understand the sustainability of social-ecological systems is formidable. The Flows Lens addresses critical built environment issues and is composed of twelve components that can flow into and through a project and define project context. The Vitality Lens is positioned atop the Flows Lens, physically representing the act of evaluating the potential outcome of each flow.
