The purpose of the Symposium Grounding Territorial Regeneration is to establish an international forum for scholars, designers, and researchers whose work engages with Territorial Regeneration under conditions of ecological crisis, technological disruption, and socio-spatial inequality. The symposium aims to create a space for presenting and critically discussing research and design practices that rethink regeneration as a grounded, relational, and long-term process.

The symposium brings together perspectives from architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, planning, geography, and related fields, with particular attention to the implications of biosphere crisis, soil, water, commons, and disrupting technologies such as artificial intelligence for the evolving role of spatial practice.
The symposium will be held in person (streamed online) on 1—2 October 2026 in Oldenburg, Germany. It is conceived as a platform for sustained debate, knowledge exchange, and the formation of new alliances around the urgent task of Territorial Regeneration.

The Symposium defines Territorial Regeneration broadly, referring to the spatial, ecological, social and technological systemic qualities of territories across cities, regions, agglomerations, and other landscapes in the urban rural continuum. It describes a qualitative and systemic shift in which territorial design and planning actively restore, enhance, and regenerate ecological and social capacities, making territories net-positive over time.
The symposium emphasizes territorial systems as both the subject and medium of Territorial Regeneration, situating design and urbanism within the complex forces that continuously shape and reshape territories.

The Symposium is organized by the Chair of Regenerative Urbanism at Jade UAS under direction of Prof. Dr. Radostina Radulova-Stahmer and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Stefano Tornieri.