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HEMP AS INCUBATOR OF A CIRCULAR ECONOMY EXPLORING HEMP SYSTEMS AT THE MONVISO INSTITUTE, A REAL-WORLD MOUNTAIN LABORATORY FOR SYSTEMIC REGENERATIVE DESIGN Tobias Luthe | MonViso Institute
Hemp is a circular plant with all its parts potentially having societal, ecological or industrial value, direct or indirect. This systemic value can be harnessed to help incubate a more circular, bio-based economy, a transition from our current linear, crude-oil based economy, being of critical importance to create regenerative, resilient societies and thereby address current pressing environmental and social problems. Finding and implementing solutions to such complex problems requires systemic design techniques and methodologies, building upon science, technology, creativity, and participation. Sounds complex? It surely is. In order to thrive for this systemic change to happen, we need to increase and accelerate our efforts to develop common visions, contextual understanding and motivational experiences, building knowledge and spurring cooperation. Basically, to simplify the complex and make it accessible, desirable, tangible, applicable. The MonViso Institute in the Italian Piedmont is being designed as an experimental lab where people can experience such complexity
in real life. One such example is the revival of hemp as a forgotten plant, and its potential contribution to incubate a more sustainable, circular bio-economy. History and potential of hemp need to translate into timely systemic solutions, which is one of the activities of the MonViso Institute (Luthe et al.a). Some remote, abandoned or neglected mountain regions already experience a recently developing migration from cities back to the mountains, referred to as “Alpine urbanism”. Alpine urbanism
The MonViso Institute is located in Valle Po, Piedmont, Italy An experiential systemic design center with alpine-urban hemp circularity as one focus
