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Bioregioning in Practice

Learn from BLC and the world’s leading practitioners. Starts April 21st, 2025

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Sharing futures in South Devon and beyond

How can a whole region realise the potential for social and ecological health?
From our own bioregion of South Devon, we’re here to open up conversations about how reconnecting people and place can equip us to address the systemic problems we live with everyday—where communities can learn together, systems rebalance and landscapes flourish.

Trusted by our partners

For millennia, our societies have been organised at a bioregional scale. Today we face a complex climate, biodiversity and resource polycrisis. This requires a systemic response–strategy, design and action with an open invitation to participate.

How a bioregional approach can deliver regeneration

As humans, we are connected to the wider living system in all its astounding complexity. BLC embraces this, in our own way, by working simultaneously in different ways and on related tracks, in order to support the emergence of a healthy bioregion. A bioregional 'container' makes common sense because by working within it, actions for climate adaptation become practical and regenerative principles can be explored and tested.

Pillars

Building a foundation for resilience

“We’re building robust structures for data, governance and funding as part of a redefined infrastructure to support our bioregion’s long-term thriving. This effort currently sits in the BLC Lab as we investigate all of its dimensions. Learning moves freely between this exploration and our projects on the ground.”

Isabel Carlisle
CEO, Strategy & Partnerships

Practices

Cultivating civic agency

“We’re all about nurturing the capacities needed for adaptive change. Our practices in action learning, meaningful communication and arts intervention are how enthusiasm and uptake grows–for learning and towards agency. In this way, the practice of bioregioning is in some ways invisible.”

Jane Brady
Creative Director

Programmes

Tangible project impact

“Our programmes take their shape from many years of exploration and working with people in South Devon and bioregions across the world. They allow us to see the domains within which we are currently working. Its the work on the ground, our projects and the ripples they cause, that create real-world pathways to action, practical applications of our ethos.”

Nick Paling
Director, Data & Evidence Lead

Welcome to the bioregion of South Devon

Get a sense for the bioregion that BLC calls home. From the Tamar to the Teign, up onto Dartmoor and down to the coast, there is so much to learn.

Explore our bioregion
Bioregional Learning Centre South Devon Dartmoor
Understanding South Devon from many different perspectives
Inspiring landscapes
Inspiring landscapes
Bio-cultural identity
Bio-cultural identity
Agricultural abundance
Agricultural abundance
Maritime significance
Maritime significance
Diverse ecosystems
Diverse ecosystems

Working locally and globally

Explore BLC's interdisciplinary projects and the programmes they sit within, developed as long-term efforts towards economic and ecological revitalisation within the bioregion.

Ecosystem restoration

Local

Saltmarsh Project

Restoring ecosystems

Bioregional health

Local

Devon Doughnut

Measuring bioregional health

South Devon strategies

Local

Local Climate Adaptation

Designing strategies for South Devon

Learning network

Global

Bioregional Conversations

Growing a global learning network

The Lab

Discover our dynamic action learning space on the River Dart in South Devon – where we explore systems at work, develop ideas and foster collaborations to reveal new possibilities for emergent futures.

Enter the lab
Storytelling
12.19.24

Is this what happens to stories?

Storytelling
12.19.24

Is this what happens to stories?

Nailed to a hoarding
Art + ecology
2.19.25

It's a process of trust and value redefinition

Exploring the relationship of art and ecology with a bioregional framing

Art + ecology
2.19.25

Exploring the relationship of art and ecology with a bioregional framing

a+e Zoom Feb 18
Storytelling
12.19.24

Take strength from the granite

Storytelling
12.19.24

Take strength from the granite

Dartmoor mist
Bioregional banquet
2.17.25

Polyphenols (mg/kg) 429

Bioregional banquet
2.17.25

Polyphenols (mg/kg) 429

Tuscan olive oil
Art + ecology
2.21.25

Where will Art + Ecology take us next?

Art + ecology
2.21.25

Where will Art + Ecology take us next?

Mary and boot
Art + ecology
2.21.25

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

- Siri Hustvedt

Art + ecology
2.21.25

- Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt
Art + ecology
12.19.24

Artist Clare Parker at BLC's creative meet-up

Art + ecology
12.19.24

Artist Clare Parker at BLC's creative meet-up

Clare workshop
Art + ecology
2.21.25

Artist Beth Heaney explores the saltmarsh edge

Art + ecology
2.21.25

Artist Beth Heaney explores the saltmarsh edge

Beth's river
Bioregional banquet
12.19.24

Mycorrhizae loss in the soil will have significant impacts on growth

Food and farming culture

Bioregional banquet
12.19.24

Food and farming culture

Food and farming culture
Art + ecology
12.19.24

Bringing the Dart into the room

Art + ecology
12.19.24

Bringing the Dart into the room

Voices of Dart jar

Beautiful, flowing, fluid, wild, tender, sensitive, sensual, provoking river of an exhibition... A revelation! I knew nothing about saltmarshes, but it's a feeling you get from the show that helps you understand, I was there for an hour... It was sophisticated, powerful, emotional... A better way to communicate.

Visitors to 'A New Beauty' pop-up exhibition

Thanks again for putting together the wonderful evening on the saltmarsh. I’ve been to many nature inspired talks and presentations but never one to combine the scientific message with artistic impression. For me it definitely imprints the message and inspires action. I would love to see this approach taken forward as a way to engage more people in the importance of nature recovery.

Gary Deare
Galmpton resident

We need to remember how stories and myths create a space for the imagination and this in turn makes new stories and possibilities. What is so wonderful about BLC is that they alchemise potential and manifest through new thinking in an extraordinary way. This is the only way we can deal with the future.

Beth Heaney
Artist

I found the Devon Doughnut session on employment absolutely brilliant. It was energising and hopeful to be a part of a collaborative group seeking innovative strategies to build a healthy and sustainable local economy. I was motivated by the mix of people and ideas and look forward to my continuing involvement.

Dr. Louise MacAllister