He Puna ORA is a design and action lab focused on urban resilience and regeneration based in Huri te Ao, the School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology.

We explore how systemic shifts in regenerated ecological systems, zero-carbon energy systems, circular economies, connected communities, and regenerative buildings and built infrastructures can increase local resilience and thriving at this time of accelerating socio-ecological crisis.

We are:

// Developing transition tools and guides for communities, institutions, neighbourhoods and cities to resource local action.

// Co-creating regenerative action plans with communities in their place.

// Testing out regenerative change on the ground in place-based living lab pilots and case studies.

// Designing speculative wellbeing-led futures.

// Writing about the evidence and strategies for regenerative culture change.

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