Dancing with the Land

The biggest mistake in urban design?

Thinking the land needs our ideas more than we need its wisdom.

We keep trying to design places without ever understanding the places themselves.

Hunnu City in Mongolia gave us the chance to rethink that impulse.

We don’t yet fully know this landscape - and pretending we do is exactly how cities end up fighting the land instead of flourishing with it.

So instead of treating the masterplan as a final answer, we treated it as the beginning of a relationship: a process that listens first, learns continuously, and lets natural systems guide each successive step.

What emerged wasn’t a city imposed on the steppe, but a framework for a city that can grow with it.

If you’re curious what regenerative design could look like when we follow a framework that dances with the land, this is our story.