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Sérgio Pedro

Sérgio Pedro

Regenerative development and innovation researcher at the University of Aveiro/University of Coimbra Centre for Social Studies and EU Climate Pact Ambassador, working at the intersection of environment, AI, and innovation management.

Sep 7, 2026

KimHOST
11:28
Could you explain what regenerative potential entails and why you think it remedies the issues with the livability index?
11:36
Yeah, perhaps it would be good to start from the beginning.
11:43
Sorry for the pun, but start from the justification of what is regenerative design and development or this regenerative approach, because it's not something new.
11:56
It already exists since the 70s.
11:59
from the last century, originally for mostly related with forestry management.
12:08
So regeneration of a forest that is cutting the forest, but also taking care of this recuperation is revival, not only an extraction prone approach.
12:23
and that went into years after into the architecture approach also constructing buildings or infrastructure that was um attentive to the surroundings of the building site and and that he meshed with the with the building side the surroundings not some like trying to be as more in line with the building site as possible and not something that was suddenly dropped by a UFO in the middle of nowhere.

28 MINS LATER

KimHOST
40:42
You know, be a way of celebrating their relationship, improving their relationship, or will it be something where, like we kind of briefly discussed before, people say, oh, I have this index and the situation is actually great, so I don't need to worry about it or think about it anymore when i'm outside in those spaces how how do you think that in in the you know to bring it down to one question how do you think these indexes will impact the relationship humans have with other species around them

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