The lecture is one of four keynotes taking place at the symposium Grounding Territorial Regeneration, which brings together perspectives from architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, planning, geography, and related fields, with particular attention to the implications of biosphere crisis, soil, water, commons, and disrupting technologies such as artificial intelligence for the evolving role of spatial practice.

The Symposium defines Territorial Regeneration broadly, referring to the spatial, ecological, social and technological systemic qualities of territories across cities, regions, agglomerations, and other landscape systems in the urban rural continuum. It describes a epistemic, qualitative and systemic shift in which territorial design actively restore, enhance, and regenerate ecological and social capacities, making territories net-positive over time. The symposium emphasises territorial systems as both the subject and medium of Territorial Regeneration, situating design and urbanism within the complex forces that continuously shape and reshape territories.

The symposium will be held in person (streamed online) on 1–2 October 2026 in Oldenburg, Germany. It is conceived as a platform for sustained debate, knowledge exchange, and the formation of new alliances around the urgent task of Territorial Regeneration.

The Symposium is organised by the Chair of Regenerative Urbanism at Jade UAS under direction of Prof. Dr. Radostina Radulova-Stahmer and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Stefano Tornieri.