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biribili is targeted towards individuals, small organisations and communities who wish to:

1. Support individual and collective reflection in order to be more aware of how we currently live and work and how we would like to live and work in the future.
2. Introduce behavioural changes and adopt new models of thought, habits and routines that are more circular, regenerative, environmentally friendly and sustainable.

1. It helps to focus our wishes and energy in order to imagine and implement positive, attainable and regenerative alternatives. It removes some of the paralysing weight of apocalyptic, blame-oriented and punitive conflicts.
2. It concentrates on what can be tackled, without posing overwhelming challenges. It starts with small tasks and achievements in our daily routine. Humbly. Step by step. Focusing on what is urgent and important.

biribili approaches circularity from a perspective centred on care, conscious use and responsible engagement with available resources and relationships, in order to extend life cycles as much as possible. It does this by following key regenerative principles, seeking to create beneficial conditions for restoring and improving the health and vitality of the ecosystems we participate in.

If you’d like to know more, here are four good references to explore:

1. An invitation to be and enjoy being compost with Staying with the Trouble – Making Kin in the Chthulucene, a book by Donna J. Haraway, published by Duke University Press, which contains poetic and practical philosophy for a multifarious circularity.
2. The website of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the top international organisation for the promotion of the circular economy.
3. Designing Regenerative Cultures, a book by Daniel Christian Wahl, published by Triarchy Press, that offers a whole catalogue of regenerative design principles, patterns and proposals.
4. The UN has declared the period of 2021-2030 to be the “Decade on Restoration”.

Permaculture arose in the realm of food and agriculture, but it is applicable to many other areas, such as healthcare, education, finance, housing, energy, social and cultural processes, and so on. Additionally, it is a scalable system which can help us in our personal lives, as well as in the organisations and communities we participate in on neighbourhood, municipal or regional levels.

If you’d like to learn more, we suggest these two key reference works:

1. “Permaculture Principles“, a simple website that summarises the work of David Holgren in order to give a good understanding of what permaculture is, as well as its ethics, principles and practical applications.
2. People and Permaculture, a book written by Looby Macnamara and published by Kaicron, deals with permaculture as applied to personal, collective and planetary design.

That’s why biribili is a perfect complement to another tool developed by ColaBoraBora, available in Spanish and Euskera: sosteVIDAbilidad – a guide of tricks and tips for enterprises that put life at the centre, which compiles exercises and lessons around three themes: Living / Caring / Earning. This is a practical guide, the result of a process of collective design led by Rosa Fernández with the collaboration of La Quinta Ola.

The creative process was carried out in collaboration with: designer Andrea Nieto (conceptualisation); UPV-EHU research group Inguru Psiko (behaviours); graphic designer Nerea Márquez from Ojobuey (universal vision); and Ms Barrons (digital presence).

The project was also made possible thanks to the fertile ground provided by Wikitoki and to the material support of the KSI+ programs of the Basque Government, Conexiones of KSIgune / Euskampus and  Bizkaia Creativa of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia.