Like the human body, cities are living organisms. How people, water, energy, goods and food move through the urban systems is key to a city’s sustainability as well residents’ health & wellbeing.
Systems thinking investigates inherent relationships between different urban systems and highlights potential linkages between sectors & scales in a comprehensive way.
At Biospheric City Lab, we believe that the key to sustainable urban development lies in systems thinking—seeing cities as complex ecosystems where people, nature, and infrastructure interact.
Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) is a useful tool for sustainability decision making. As
opposed to Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), LCT involves going beyond the traditional
focus on production and manufacturing processes to include environmental,
social and economic impacts of a product or a process over its entire life cycle.
This may facilitate links and create synergies between the economic, social and
environmental dimensions for the whole city.
We provide a systems thinking approach to integrate sustainability in multiple urban scales, sectors and disciplines to achieve quantum effects.
We use the city as our lab to explore and test different ideas and implement them through our projects. We use different tools to create sustainable cities & communities and support the transition to circular economy and net zero initiatives.
