Get ready for the enriching DRRS (Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems) program year to come! Powered by MVI (MonViso Institute) in collaboration with ETH Zurich.
The Cyclical Logic of the DRRS Program
The DRRS program is designed as a cyclical learning ecosystem, not a linear curriculum. Its structure combines concentric depth with seasonal rhythm, allowing participants to enter, deepen, pause, and re-enter in ways aligned with personal readiness and ecological time. Learning unfolds through recurring thresholds rather than fixed progression, supporting long-term engagement with complexity.
At the outer layer, MOOCs and the virtual DRRS community provide continuous, low-threshold access and a shared language. Around this spine, a constellation of accessible practices—art-based exploration (Web of Life), mindfulness and inner development formats, short Systemic Cycles tours, co-working days, and community gatherings—invite relational and embodied learning without requiring long commitments. These formats create multiple moments of entry across the year.
Depth emerges through calendar-sequenced intensification. As the year progresses, participants may move into more immersive formats such as Designing Experimental Places & Spaces (DEPS) in spring, Systemic Cycles journeys, a mindful self-compassion nature retreat in summer, craft-based tool-building, and a post-RSD systemic design retreat in autumn. Each format revisits core questions from a different angle, increasing responsibility, embodiment, and integration.
The entire system is aligned with solstices, equinoxes, and micro-seasons, using seasonality as a didactic device to cultivate timing, regeneration, and appropriate intensity. In essence, DRRS functions as a living system of learning—open yet structured, rhythmic rather than linear—supporting the capacity to navigate complexity by synchronizing intellectual inquiry, embodied practice, and ecological time.
Zoom recording of the virtual info meeting Friday, 16 Jan 2026: https://ethz.zoom.us/rec/share/mUkHRTxfkGig6OIj3DjgOylY-G3wD705QXJ-Xej6tE-BdCydOZNw5H9Xsi86W_qn.QYNKaInarcj2rdG4
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Miro board for visual guidance: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVGQRoetw=/?share_link_id=467189544815
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Summary of the session transcript, explaining the cyclical logic of the program setup: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chZR-JedZdALFslYyCDyvoak1TjRYpkRVp-UP0UY3mw/edit?usp=sharing
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• 19 Jan 2026
Web of Life ⁰² – exploring other-than-human perspectives in support of interspecies care and life-centric cultural development (virtual)
Read more on the Art Now website: here
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• 3 Mar – 14 April 2026
Designing Experimental Places and Spaces (DEPS) (virtual)
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• 7-15 Mar 2026 High Ski Traverse as Unconference in Motion (ski alpinism tour) Read more
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Spring equinox – 20 March
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• 20-23 April, 2026
Systemic Cycles tour – Po River, Italy (physical)
• 24-25 Apr 2026
Systemic Cycle tour – Annecy, France (physical)
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• 1 May- 30 Sep 2026
CAS 2 ETH Beyond Systems Thinking (hybrid: physical and virtual)
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MAS ETH in Regenerative Systems – thesis module (hybrid: physical and virtual)
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• 2-6 (7) May 2026
MVI co-working days (physical) Meet the MVI team, explore our mountain campus, train your physical work skills, and help preparing the land for the season with various types of physical campus work (trees planting, pond building, fence repairing, trail building, pond building, permaculture garden preperation, …), and sleep in the newly built “Essenza Lamboi Camps”. Ostana, Italy
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• 6-8 May 2026
Systemic Cycles guide training – level I (physical)
Venice Lagoon bioregion, Italy
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• 8-10 May 2026
Bioregional Sensing & DRRS Community Gathering (physical)
Venice Lagoon bioregion, ExpoLAB, Italy
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• 28-31 May 2026
Systemic Cycles tour – Ticino (physical)
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• 4-9 June 2026
CAS 2 ETH Beyond Systems Thinking field design trip* light – Norway (physical)
• 10-15 June 2026
Field design trip intense – Norway (physical)
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Summer solstice – June 21
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• 20-23 June 2026
MAS field design trip with QUEST pitching at ETH Zurich (physical)
including: 20-21 June 2026 Bioregional Sensing & DRRS Community Gathering (physical)
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• 10-12 July 2026
Systemic Cycles guide training – level II (physical)
Basel – Jura – Biel – Bern
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• 22-23 July 2026
ETH Short Course “Regeneration and (Artificial) Complexity” – (physical), in German
Zurich
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• 20-25 July 2026
Encounters Beyond Human – an Elemental, Place-Based Journey (physical)
A 6-Day Mindfulness & Inner Development Retreat in the Piemontese Alps
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• 21/28 July (virtual) and 4-8 Aug 2026 (physical) / 2nd date 24-29 Aug 2026
Forming Relationships — Building One’s Own Tool as a Holistic Practice (hybrid: physical and virtual) Knife and spoon building course alongside regenerative design principles and place-specific ontology of tools
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• tbd. August 2026
Systemic Cycles tour – South Tyrol (physical)
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Autumn equinox – 22 Sept
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• 24-25 Sept 2026
ETH Short Course “Systemic Design”* – (physical), in German and English
Zurich
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• 30 Sept – 3 Oct 2026
Systemic Cycles guide training – level III (physical)
Piemont to Liguria (Ostana – Cuneo – Finale)
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• 1 Oct 2026 – 31 Jan 2027
CAS 3 ETH Systemic Design (hybrid: physical and virtual)
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• 18-21 Oct 2026
Systemic Design for Regenerative Practice (physical)
Post-RSD 15 retreat in Ostana, MVI Campus
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• 24-27 Oct 2026
CAS 3 ETH Systemic Design field design trip light – Mallorca (physical)
• 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2026
Field design trip intense – Mallorca (physical)
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Winter solstice – 21 Dec
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