[Re]Generation is an initiative aimed at building awareness of the need for and advantages of [re]localised, networked systems of production and consumption. The initiative involved a partnership between the McCaughey Centre and the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) focused on:

• exploring the value of distributed systems as a response to urgent environmental, social and economic challenges – particularly those relating to climate change;
• engaging multi-disciplinary practitioners, theorists, researchers, designers and activists to consider projects and visions for sustainable futures enabled by distributed systems; and
• identifying priorities for future action: research; innovation; the design of products services and built environments; policy development.

Publications

• Biggs, C., Ryan, C., Wiseman, J. & Larson, K. 2009. Distributed Water Systems: A networked and localised approach for sustainable water services Report No 2. Carlton, Melbourne, Australia: McCaughey Centre
  

Partnerships
• Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL)

Events
• Localised solutions: Building capacity and resilience with distributed production systems, conference co-hosted by the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab and the McCaughey Centre, Melbourne, November 30, 2009

• [Re]Generation: Distributed systems, sustainability and resilience, conference co-hosted by the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab and the McCaughey Centre, Melbourne, 2010