Global Learning Experiment
Testing if regenerative principles work everywhere across cultures, languages and contexts.
We're exploring whether the ideas in The Compass: A Civic Platform for Regeneration translate universally. Unlike traditional planning frameworks built for specific cultural contexts, The Compass is based on metabolic and complex systems principles that may be fundamental to all thriving communities.
Help us discover if regenerative capacity can be understood the same way worldwide.
The Civic CAD Coach: Your AI Learning Companion
To support this experiment, we've developed the Civic CAD Coach, an AI-powered assistant that helps you explore The Compass in your own language and apply it to your real work.
Civic CAD stands for Collectively Aligned Development: a practical ecosystem of tools that support the application of The Compass in real shared places.
How It Works
1. Share Your Work
Share your neighbourhood plan, development strategy, community proposal, or research with the Coach - whatever you're working on.
2. Get Tailored Guidance
The Coach analyses your context and directs you to the relevant parts of The Compass, explained in your native language.
3. Apply the Thinking
Receive specific insights on how regenerative principles (Vitality, Synchronicity, Trust and the civic algorithms) apply to your situation.
4. Contribute Your Learning
Share optional, anonymous reflections that help this global learning system evolve.
Why This Matters
Traditional planning approaches often fail to translate across cultures. This experiment tests whether metabolic principles (how systems build up, break down barriers and self-regulate) are universal.
Your participation helps us learn:
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Do these concepts resonate in your cultural context?
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Can the framework help practitioners in radically different settings?
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What adaptations are needed for global application?
Your feedback contributes to a global knowledge commons and helps strengthen civic learning systems worldwide.
Getting Started
There is no required pathway, just curiosity, reflection and contribution to learning.
Using the companion involves:
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Exploring The Compass freely at your own pace, depth and in over 50+ languages.
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Engaging in reflection based on your interests, role or current work
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Applying ideas to places or systems you know, when you're ready
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Contributing optional, anonymous insights to strengthen collective learning
Wherever you begin, your reflections help us discover if regenerative principles truly transcend borders.
