Common Ground Information

With the help of many creative regenerative community members, I founded Common Ground to highlight emergent regenerative design as the future framework for living systems design. Designing for the future becomes better & brighter when we make places that are more interwoven & connected to the natural world. It is challenging work to create places we can fall in love with, but much easier when we engage each other. We inspire personal and social development through our regenerative design framework by embracing the process of discovery which reveals that the places we inhabit are unique and spiritually fulfilling. Personally, we believe that our discovery of and honest representation of the authenticity of a place makes the work that we have done for over 26 years more interesting. I do my most thoughtful design work after actively listening to communities discuss and describe their future hopes for their neighborhoods. I then strive to integrate these local flavors with interdisciplinary ways to achieve a more livable, satisfyingly rewarding design. The engineers and architects that collaborate with Common Ground, who find themselves engaged in whole-process learning, are often delighted and enlightened that working with us entails considering factors and inputs that change with every place, every project, every community. Bernard J. Lamm, PE - Systems Designer, Natural Philospher