Sausage tree model - building resilient cities

Urbanisation

Future cities

What is a city?

Bad city

Good city

Waste

The concept

Biomimicry

“We need cities to perform like ecosystems, not just look like them”

- biomimicry guru Janine Benyus

What can we learn from a tree ecosystem?

Archetype of connectivity:

Biological Functions Environment Energy & relationships

Vision

1 billion people create and maintain resilient urban ecosystems by using S Tree

What is a resilient city?

How to measure success?

Solution & open source

Who will we affect?

What will we measure?

Resilience thinking?

Benefits to users

Key success factors

What’s next?

What do we need help with?

Thank you