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Those working towards climate-responsive futures are in a transition zone, increasingly overwhelmed on all sides by environmental, technological, social, and financial forces. Even more, we face issues that require thinking beyond the traditional bounds of our disciplines. We can’t embark on a post-carbon transition without a trans-disciplinary one, too.

Engineers are in a challenging position to make this shift, with a tendency to solve a design problem as it's defined by our siloed sub-disciplines and to pull from a playbook of solutions. What if our playbook does not have all the answers? Or, in fact, that there is no playbook at all?

Landscapes are shaped by large forces and microinterventions, dynamically shaped by people, ecology, technology, climate, and time. What can engineers learn from them?

We are in the stretch between the path-dependent systems behind us and the decarbonized, resilient solutions we know to be true. Likewise, a regenerative future is not forthcoming. It is already here, just in small pockets and in far corners.