Doodling on the Masterpiece

We thought we were building the masterpiece. Turns out we were just doodling on it.

For decades, our industry has been convinced that we are the creators. That forests, fields, and rivers were blank canvases waiting for our genius. That nature was a constraint to engineer around, resist, avoid, or design after the fact. But the more we learn, the more obvious it becomes:
We haven’t been designing with nature - we’ve been scribbling over her original work without understanding the brushstrokes. And the consequences are everywhere:
• overheated cities
• biodiversity collapse
• flooded neighbourhoods
• communities spiritually disconnected from place