A window into regenerative development + design
Stewardship for an evolving earth
Rediscover
real
We live in a world of layers, in which our connection to land is lost because of patterns that lack the medicine to intertwine story, science, and spirit.
We work in an industry of transactions, where the final product diminishes the beauty of the process.
We play in a game of grappling, where the polarities of technology versus nature remain separated.
How do we harmonize binaries — and move from unraveling to unfolding?
How do
we return
to real?
unfold
verb.
to rediscover the layers beneath the surface
Unfold Development
At Unfold, we model stewardship for an evolving earth. We search for degenerating spaces that have lost their sense of realness. Using regenerative design, community input, and a process of rediscovering, we restore sense of place, reconnect humans to the natural world, and reinterpret use and potential.
What
are “real”
places?
A sense of realness is easy to feel — and not to feel. When it’s present, you witness the melting of layers, the ease of interweaving, and the strength of harmony. Our Unfold principles guide us in our process for rediscovering real.
Unfold’s Principles of
Regenerative Development
Regenerative development is the utilization of resources to improve well-being in a manner that crafts the capacity for future growth.
Unfold Development merges Regenesis Group’s principles of regenerative development with its own pillars for regenerative projects:
Place, and the context of place: eco-region, geography, natural systems, and human culture, influences grounding, team, materials, and use.
Place, and the context of place: eco-region, geography, natural systems, and human culture, influences grounding, team, materials, and use.
A project is reconnected with its environment and inspires co-evolving mutualism and a field of care. Humans relearn their role as a part of nature – and a part of a larger whole.
A project is reconnected with its environment and inspires co-evolving mutualism and a field of care. Humans relearn their role as a part of nature – and a part of a larger whole.
Interdependence and integrative design are frameworks, creating highly collaborative conditions, with the notion that nothing regenerative can be done in isolation.
Interdependence and integrative design are frameworks, creating highly collaborative conditions, with the notion that nothing regenerative can be done in isolation.
Craft is brought back to construction with techniques rooted in responsibility and a network of artists and craftspeople embedded in local culture and design.
Craft is brought back to construction with techniques rooted in responsibility and a network of artists and craftspeople embedded in local culture and design.
Strategies for healing and wellness, biophilia, design for sensory function, and the use of healthy, non-toxic, natural materials are avenues for aliveness and longevity.
Strategies for healing and wellness, biophilia, design for sensory function, and the use of healthy, non-toxic, natural materials are avenues for aliveness and longevity.
An inclusive environment bridges belonging and meaning, curating space for art, poetry, and understanding that unveils hues of human relation.
An inclusive environment bridges belonging and meaning, curating space for art, poetry, and understanding that unveils hues of human relation.
Richness is genuine because the capacities of social, human, natural, and produced capital grow together and help each other to keep evolving.
Richness is genuine because the capacities of social, human, natural, and produced capital grow together and help each other to keep evolving.
Health +
Wellness
Equity
Unfold acknowledges that we live in a world where well-being is not equally accessible. Economically disadvantaged communities, as well as communities of color, LGBTQIA+, and disabled persons have proven to have less access to nature and live near higher levels of pollution (learn more: The Nature Gap).
We are a small but eager LGBTQ-owned business committed to inclusive design. We partner with underrepresented artists and trade professionals in our goals to heal nature access and create regenerative spaces for all. With Unfold’s growing ecosystem of regenerative practitioners we hope to expand the whole-society perspective needed in the health and wellness arena. We are constantly learning and hope you will join us and engage in the conversation.
Let’s learn more together.
