Regenerative Metropolis ’25 – Passive House as Foundation to System Integration

DATE:  Friday, September 26, 2025

TIME:  9:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. (EST)

VENUE:  University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10011

About the Event:

Passive house’s reliable and superior energy performance with its myriad of co-benefits, is the cornerstone of the architectural solutions we require to be able to thrive. It is a firm foundation upon which we can build a regenerative society that repairs ecosystems damage, reverses it, and begins to increase all life.  There is a rising consciousness emerging revealing how comprehensive the field of sustainability is truly required to be if we are to meaningfully move towards regeneration. Only by broadening the lenses of our understanding can we take advantage of synergies of our actions across systems, and exponentially increase positive impacts.

For this year’s symposium, we invited you to submit proposals showcasing how passive house design relates to any aspects of regenerative design that are dear to your interests or practice.  We had an enthusiastic response from diverse locations and perspectives, all with inspiring examples of reaching for Regeneration and how Passive House was, or in some cases was not, a cornerstone of the strategy.

In the spirit of this symposium’s continual drive to integrate various disciplines through architecture, we also invited a scientist focused on Green Chemistry to close out the day and inspire us with efforts in that movement to address issues upstream.