UMARNA

Impact

In which ways impact becomes visible

UMARNA exists to increase the capacity of life to understand, adapt, regenerate and continue — from everyday human experience and collective learning to cultures, territories, institutions and the development of knowledge, technologies and forms of organisation capable of serving them. Its impact is measured in the capacities strengthened, the knowledge preserved and extended, the relationships renewed and the possibilities made available to those who come after it. This is the logic behind our regenerative approach and the reason UMARNA situates itself within the wider field of triple-impact and regenerative initiatives, articulated through three interdependent dimensions: People, Planet and Possibility.

The impact becomes visible through multidisciplinary creative hubs, field laboratories, residencies and expeditions; podcasts, publications and educational programmes; collective maps, libraries, datasets and knowledge environments; as well as the development of devices, tools and experimental prototypes — forms through which research enters lived contexts and can activate the capacity of emerging systems to learn, expand organically and create in harmonic convergence.

Hubs & fieldwork

  • multidisciplinary creative hubs
  • field laboratories
  • residencies
  • expeditions

Media & learning

  • podcasts
  • publications
  • educational programmes

Shared knowledge

  • collective maps
  • libraries
  • datasets
  • knowledge environments

Instruments

  • devices
  • tools
  • experimental prototypes

One lens

People, Planet and Possibility operate as a single lens.

  • People

    People concerns capacity: perception, learning, participation, decision-making, creation and care.

  • Planet

    Planet concerns the conditions that sustain life: territories, ecosystems, resources and biodiversity.

  • Possibility

    Possibility concerns the cultural, scientific and creative space in which new ways of organising life can be developed.

Three scales

Impact can accumulate across three connected scales.

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge builds a durable corpus in which dispersed evidence can be located, contextualised and extended.

  • Culture

    Culture gives knowledge forms through which people can encounter, teach, question and transmit it.

  • Systems

    Systems carry what has been learned into places, institutions, technologies and collective structures.

field observationcorpuseducation or designnew field questionprototype or intervention impact compounds

Circulation

This circulation is where impact compounds. A field observation can become part of the corpus; the corpus can inform education or design; education can generate a new field question; a question can become a prototype or intervention. The work gains value when it remains able to generate further understanding and action beyond the project that produced it.

Regeneration is therefore a design criterion. An intervention should strengthen capacity, return value to its field, improve the conditions of the systems involved and leave knowledge, institutions and places more capable of learning and continuing. Growth has meaning when the conditions that support it remain viable.