We are systems designers for a regenerative world.
We create new ways of inhabiting the earth—from agriculture to hospitality, cities to classrooms. We're transforming humanity's extractive legacy into a regenerative future where we become a healing force for the planet while finding deeper meaning and wholeness for ourselves.
VISION
To return humanity to a state of harmony and alignment: a living world where people are reconciled with nature, with themselves, and with each other. A world where all places and all living beings express their fullest potential in service of the greater whole. A world that no longer needs saving.
MISSION
To create a critical mass of successful regenerative acupuncture points that tips the world toward a new paradigm: where the health of all living systems form the foundation of humanity’s meaningful existence.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller
OUR STORY
From board-topping Architect to Designer for Nature
Regenesis was founded by Marianne Therese Amores, a Filipina architect who topped the national board in 2011. Entering practice, she quickly saw a broken industry locked in extractive and unsustainable patterns. Refusing to be part of the problem, she stepped away.
In Singapore, Marianne pursued a Master’s in Integrated Sustainable Design at Asia’s top university while working at the Building and Construction Authority, designing national frameworks, standards, and training for the built environment. The work sharpened her systems expertise, but she felt that there was still something more. Even at the center of progress, she felt the prevailing sustainability agenda around the world was too shallow—focused on efficiency, not renewal.
Driven by this conviction, she turned her personal search into a discipline. Nights and weekends were spent devouring deep ecology, regenerative agriculture, systems thinking, and quantum science. She was seeking a framework that could realign humanity with the living world. She found it in regenerative design and development—a practice not of minimizing harm, but of unlocking life’s potential.
Guided by this discovery, she returned to the Philippines and, together with her family, established a living laboratory in Bohol—the country’s first Ecosystem Restoration Community. What began as an experiment in healing land and people soon grew into the seed and framework of The Regenesis Project.
Within just two years, that seed grew to the scale of a province. Marianne presented her vision for Bohol to the provincial government, and in 2023 Governor Aris Aumentado signed an executive order declaring Bohol the Philippines’ first Regenerative Island—placing Regenesis at the heart of a living blueprint for systemic change.
Regenesis began with a refusal to uphold broken systems—and a commitment to design regenerative models to replace the old, setting humanity on a new trajectory where people and nature thrive together.
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.”
Gregory Bateson
THE CHALLENGE & THE OPPORTUNITY
If regeneration is the obvious path forward, why isn’t everyone doing it?
The gaps lie in how our systems think and work: misaligned paradigms, outdated assumptions, and siloed structures that fragment efforts and stall transformation.
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Investors want to fund meaningful initiatives, but struggle to find models that are both financially sound and deliver genuine impact.
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Policymakers are tasked with addressing urgent needs, but often lack visibility into the broader ripple effects of their decisions.
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Developers face pressure to deliver quick returns, even when they know long-term resilience and differentiation matter.
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Designers often want to pursue impactful projects, but are constrained by developers focused solely on short-term profit.
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Educators want to equip the next generation, yet find themselves teaching within outdated systems that don’t match tomorrow’s challenges.
Regeneration requires more than good intentions—it needs a complete system redesign.
OUR SYSTEMIC SOLUTION
Regenesis operates as an integrated ecosystem where each function reinforces the others and turns fragmented efforts into momentum for change.
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Building the intellectual foundation for regenerative transformation
We advance the frameworks, policies, and research needed for regeneration to take root, from economics and industry, to landscape restoration and city systems
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Translating vision into investible, regenerative masterplans
We design at the scale that matters—rural landscapes, cities, projects, buildings. By merging Living Systems thinking, broad-scale permaculture design, with net-positive building design strategies, we create masterplans that are investible and deliver transformative impact.
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Proving regeneration works through integrated pilot projects here
We demonstrate impact through pilots that integrate sectors—hospitality with agriculture, tourism with marine restoration, industry with nature. Each project becomes a nodal acupuncture point that catalyzes systemic transformation, creates replicable models, and builds momentum
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Cultivating the next generation of regenerative leaders
These projects are the most powerful classrooms—immersive, real-world environments that reshape young minds and train new regenerative professions. Through them, we build the human capacity communities need to lead their own transformation.
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Creating transformative encounters that shift paradigms
We design transformative experiences that shift paradigms and open hearts. Through immersive encounters with regenerative living systems, people discover meaning, healing, and new ways of inhabiting the world—fueling the cultural shift that makes all of the above possible.
“When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”
attributed to Ilya Prigongine
Meet the Founding Family
At the heart of Regenesis is a family. A family that has dedicated its life to serving the highest good—each of us carrying a piece of the mission, and together holding the whole.
We bring complementary strengths that span vision, design, science, management, and on-the-ground implementation. These skills are sought-after individually, but united within a shared purpose they become something rare: a family-led commitment to regeneration that is both deeply personal and globally relevant.
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Founder
Yani Amores is an architect by profession but a nature and systems lover first and foremost. She is a board-topping architect, Master Planner, Permaculture Designer, Living Systems Designer, and Regenerative Design and Development Expert with a proven track record in regenerative systems design, strategic planning, and creating frameworks for multi-scalar and multi-industry regenerative development.
In her role as Senior Manager at the Building and Construction Authority in Singapore, she led task forces to develop national frameworks, standards, and industry-wide training programs to achieve Singapore's national agendas. She brings rare combined regenerative design expertise across both urban (built environment) and rural (agriculture and landscape restoration) contexts—integrating these into holistic bioregional strategies.
She has both the technical design expertise to meet projects' net-zero targets in energy, water, and food, and the strategic systems thinking to catalyze broader systemic transformation across the social, ecological, and industry systems in which they are embedded.
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Founder
Raoul is a technical genius and regenerative jack-of-all-trades. A proponent of 'unlearning and relearning,' he has always been ahead of his time. He has knowledge, experience, and innovations in permaculture, earthworks design, bamboo cultivation, natural farming, water design, development, project management, and operations—but most importantly, he understands the connections between bodies of knowledge and translates them into pioneering practices.
He practiced permaculture and built regenerative landscape-level earthworks before permaculture was even popularized. This has completely solved water security for projects—dams remain full even during droughts while providing excess water to neighbors. He has addressed our food security by proving you can farm during drought through regenerative agriculture, solved the food waste problem for one of the biggest resorts in Bohol, pioneered a method for successfully propagating bamboo from seed (a highly useful plant in regeneration), and grown 8 inches of topsoil on barren land in less than 5 years. When others see problems, Raoul always sees opportunities, and uses constraints to fuel innovation.
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Alakesh is currently a Research Associate and studio tutor for the master’s programme in Integrated Sustainable Design at the College of Design and Engineering in NUS. His current research topics include looking at a regenerative & systems-based approach to architecture and urbanism.
Alakesh is also a certified architect (India) with a master’s degree in Integrated Sustainable Design from NUS. He has extensive industry experience working in India, the US and Singapore for over 11 years. His past experiences as a Principal Architectural Associate at Surbana Jurong Consultants Pte. Ltd. include projects like the NUS SDE4 Net-Zero Energy Building, the Vertical Fish Farm for Apollo Aquaculture Group, the Jurong Innovation District by JTC and the Connect@Changi facility Singapore Expo set-up in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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CHIEF FINANCE OFFICE
Luz Amores is a hardcore systems thinker and financial strategist who keeps operations lean, efficient, and smart. Her prime interests lie in numbers, finance, and systems—in making things 'viable.' She served as CFO of one of the pioneering real estate companies in the region, paving the way for other developers to follow.
Both she and Raoul are also spiritual leaders who do inner healing work and serve as spiritual parents for countless souls. They believe the most important work we can do as human beings is inner work—resolving trauma, aligning with our true essence and calling, and contributing our gifts in service of the greater whole.
Luz has led and managed countless retreats for people from all walks of life, including students and organizations, and sees the dire need for healing among all of them—especially the youth who carry the pains of childhood and past while facing the bleakness of a future with few meaningful professions available. Her lifelong dream has always been to build a retreat home for broken souls.
Now we're making that dream reality by designing all our projects as vortexes and catalysts for healing to take place.
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