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 reveals links between urban systems. At Biospheric City Lab, we see cities as ecosystems where people, nature, and infrastructure interact—crucial for achieving sustainable urban development.
Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) supports sustainability by assessing environmental, social, and economic impacts throughout a product’s life. Unlike LCA, it encourages city-wide synergies across all sustainability dimensions.
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.
