The MonViso Institute
44°69′70.99″N 7°18′98.87″W
1500m asl
Welcome to MonViso Institute, a living systems lab and bioregional weaving hub for research, education, design, art, entrepreneurship, inner development and new living on holistic resilience and regenerative systems design. Our physical campus is placed near the source of the Po river, High Po River Valley, Ostana village, at the foot of Monte Viso, the Italian border with France.
Benvenuti all'Istituto MonViso, un laboratorio di sistemi viventi e un centro di tessitura bioregionale per la ricerca, l'educazione, il design, l'arte, l'imprenditorialità, lo sviluppo interiore e il nuovo modo di vivere la resilienza olistica e la progettazione di sistemi rigenerativi. Il nostro campus fisico è situato vicino alle sorgenti del fiume Po, nell'Alta Valle del Po, nel villaggio di Ostana, ai piedi del Monte Viso, al confine italiano con la Francia. Visita le pagine di impegno locale
"Let's re-think how and where we want to live now and in the future: The MonViso Institute is a living systems lab - a place with open system boundaries for exploring and experimenting with regenerative futures within real-world unpredictability. This place of mind informs universal flow-states of mind: navigating with systemic design to address global complex challenges on a bioregional scale through local, place-specific responses across types and scales of social-ecological systems.
We design in real, we weave relations, we unfold opportunities and build synergies between people, place, projects, and ecosystems, navigating theory and practice - with the common goal to co-create more resilient regenerative ways of living, blending science, local traditions, regional resources, embodied relations and global openness, within a bioregional setting."
Tobias Luthe, founding director
A fluid bioregional regeneration weaving map
This bioregional regeneration map is a living prototype of a two-dimensional representation of cross-governance regeneration, developed as part of the MVI research activities. The map is deeply grounded in resilience, circularity, governance and "bioregionaling", while tapping into place-specific land use, culture, supply chains, and system embodiment. More will be shown in this ongoing research here soon.
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Systemic Cycles down the Po River bioregion
DRRS calendar 2026
DRRS ETH CAS#2 Beyond Systems Thinking 2026
DRRS Systems Sensing-Mapping questionnaire
New partnership with Avina Stiftung
ETH CAS#3: Systemic Design
Partner of the global ETH Zurich learning system
MonViso Institute is a co-founding partner of the Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS) program offered by Systemic Design Labs at ETH Zurich. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) series and the executive study program (CAS/MAS) are about creating a positive impact in complex systems as part of learning communities. MVI is co-designing the DRRS content and contributing real-world experimentation to this high-level learning program. Read more
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