Who do we have to become
in order to live into more beautiful futures?
A home for imagination, collaboration, and cultural transformation.
The Regenerative Media Lab is an interdisciplinary, site-specific residency program and creative production house dedicated to fostering a new cultural story. Just as regenerative agriculture rejuvenates soil, RMLab works to restore culture by nurturing a shift from ego-centered to eco-centered consciousness.
Inspired by the Guild of Future Architects, the MIT Media Lab, and artist residencies worldwide, RMLab is a creative “collaboratory” in the stunning Azores, Portugal—where the African, Eurasian, and North American tectonic plates converge.
The Azores is a stunningly beautiful archipelago deep in the Atlantic Ocean, a place where nature thrives and cultures converge. It offers a unique environment that fosters deep connection to place and a commitment to long-term regenerative principles. The RMLab leverages this location as an international hub for creative exploration and cultural transformation.
We believe in the power of imagination to WEAVE a better future.
HOW?
A Regeneration Station(s)
Our physical place will serve as an international hub and demonstration site of regenerative living. Intimate connection to place with a commitment to the long-term are core principles of regeneration. The RMLab will be a home for full-time co-living, temporary creative residencies, and a meeting place for leaders in the regeneration movement, storytellers, and social entrepreneurs.
Events, retreats, and residency programs will incubate and catalyze these tangible visions into actionable road maps toward more beautiful futures
Content: Storytelling & Education
We are researching, documenting, and teaching worldbuilding skills through the Regenerative Worldbuilding Collective Project led by Bristol Baughan and Fabrice Guerrier. This work empowers traditionally marginalized voices and establish cutting edge, collectively-owned IP protocols. In each workshop storytellers translate our experts’ best solutions to climate challenges into compelling narratives for the mainstream.
In our residency program and worldbuilding work we empower diverse creatives (including ourselves) in the early incubation of novels, non-fiction books, film, television, podcasts, and technology.
In April 2025, the Regenerative Media Lab hosted its first-ever Sanctuary: a pop-up, living experiment and early glimpse of what we are building in the Azores—an international hub for regenerative living, storytelling, and culture change.
For one week, 14 creatives, futurists, and social entrepreneurs gathered at the Convento do São Francisco in the Azores to co-live, rest, and imagine together. We created conditions for artists and frontline culture workers to slow down, reconnect, and listen for what wants to emerge—individually and collectively.
What unfolded was not a retreat in the traditional sense, but a lived inquiry: photo shoots and worldbuilding sessions, Haitian BBQ at Midnight, nourishing meals, improv fireside rituals, singing, nature walks, healing conversations, and future visions. It was intimate, playful, vulnerable, and deeply human.
What has become clear is this: belonging is foundational to aliveness. And aliveness is essential to imagining, and living into, more beautiful futures. We believe those shaping culture must be resourced with time, rest, and connection—not as a luxury, but as a necessity.
We don’t just want to talk about regenerative futures. We want to practice them. Together. Now.
futurism
culture
storytelling
social entrepreneurship
personal transformation
“Infrastructure for sites of imagination practice are needed to deepen relationships, expand capacity, archive people’s collective imagination over time, and gather resources, becoming places of collective wisdom.”
- Cassie Robinson | Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge University