
Bioregioning in Practice
Learn from BLC and the world’s leading practitioners. Starts April 21st, 2025
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.
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
“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
“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.
Understanding South Devon from many different perspectives

Inspiring landscapes

Bio-cultural identity

Agricultural abundance

Maritime significance

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.
Saltmarsh Project
Restoring ecosystems
Measuring bioregional health
Devon Doughnut
Measuring bioregional health
Designing strategies for South Devon
Local Climate Adaptation
Designing strategies for South Devon
Growing a global learning network
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 labIs this what happens to stories?
Is this what happens to stories?
It's a process of trust and value redefinition

Exploring the relationship of art and ecology with a bioregional framing
Exploring the relationship of art and ecology with a bioregional framing
Take strength from the granite
Take strength from the granite
Bioregional banquet
2.17.25
Polyphenols (mg/kg) 429
Bioregional banquet
2.17.25
Polyphenols (mg/kg) 429
Where will Art + Ecology take us next?
Where will Art + Ecology take us next?
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
- Siri Hustvedt
Artist Clare Parker at BLC's creative meet-up
Artist Clare Parker at BLC's creative meet-up
Artist Beth Heaney explores the saltmarsh edge
Artist Beth Heaney explores the saltmarsh edge
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
Bringing the Dart into the room
Bringing the Dart into the room
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.
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.
Insights from BLC
Explore news, reports, research and discussions about our South Devon bioregion and about the wider bioregional movement.
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