@arleo
Regenerative Systems Architect & Urban Researcher
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I am an urban researcher and systems architect with over 15 years of international experience leading regenerative masterplanning and community-led design. Across projects spanning Europe, Africa, and the Americas, I confronted a recurring failure mode: even the most innovative projects were ultimately constrained by the limitations of their underlying governance models. The fundamental bottleneck to creating truly sustainable communities was not a lack of design vision or technical solutions, but a lack of institutional architectures capable of navigating complexity and resisting extractive pressures. This practical challenge led me to a unique intellectual synthesis during my PhD research at Newcastle University. I bridged two often disconnected domains: Regenerative Development, which provides a framework for understanding the biophysical constraints of living systems (Natural Law), and Critical Urban Theory, which provides a lens for analysing the power dynamics and social requirements for justice and equity (Social Law). The friction between these two domains revealed a set of core principles for systemic stability. I then took a critical step beyond pure theory: I operationalised this synthesis into a computational system. The result was not a paper, but a functioning prototype of a new kind of AI—the Verified Dialectical Kernel (VDK). This system uses our synthesised principles to architect governance models that are constitutionally aligned with the physics of social and ecological stability.
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