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Systemic Cycles
Slow-moving towards resilient, regenerative futures

Systemic Cycles is a (multiple-) (day(s)/hours) (bicycle) tour characterized by a regional exploration of land use, bio-cultural capacities, and supply chain processing systems. It mainly serves the following functions:

  • connecting with place and cultures while deepening the relation with the inner self,
  • offering a playful experience of a moving social adventure as alternative didactics on complexity and systemic design,
  • shifting from sightseeing to insight-seeing forms of exploring, activity and regenerative tourism,
  • nudging processes of bioregional weaving towards more circular, resilient supply chain systems and ultimately regenerative cultures.

There are 2 basic entryways to start a SC tour:

  • Building upon systemic analysis of place-specific supply chain systems and adding personal sensing experiences to mapped data.
  • Emerging into a regional system for sensing and discovering contacts for post-mapping.
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Characters of Systemic Cycle tours

  • Explore a (bioregional) spatial system (land, water, city) by bicycle (or by packraft, foot, horse,...) to get a (slow) sense of place, and connect (randomly and planned) with people and projects specific to place.
  • Let curiosity and chance explore bio- and cultural diversity, wonder what grows and moves, and how humans have been living in relation with land and water.
  • Cultivate a self-reflective process of learning to unlearn to relearn, of humbly sensing oneself as part of living systems, one’s purpose and belonging.
  • Bump into local people and their projects or schedule a meeting with an organisation - start a conversation with a question and nurture given trust to cyclists and those who move slowly with an open mind.
  • Understand supply chain systems between biocapacity, land use and processing clusters - uncover opportunities for “designing out” linear flows and envision “designing in” circularities.
  • Map the discoveries as (dialogic) systems maps, potentially becoming graphically advanced pieces of systemic communication.
  • Feed-back and re-enter the dialogue with partners and further regional actors, and weave people, projects, and places.

Learn more & connect with SC tours: www.systemic-cycles.org