Regenerative habitats from
quiet cities to wild lands.
Human Havens is a research platform on the interconnected processes of planning, designing, constructing, and administering systems that regenerate individual, collective, and ecosystem health. It features contributions from practitioners and scholars across multiple disciplines.
Placeholder. The platform is independent and open access. Work published here is written for a reader who is building something: a street, a ward, a canopy plan, a house, a policy.
Placeholder. Every piece on the platform is tagged with one or more elements of inquiry — the recurring lines of research that organise the library and the wayfinding across the site. Elements borrow the notation of the periodic table: a two-letter symbol, a number, and a name. They are stable enough to cite and loose enough to grow.
Placeholder. Three surfaces carry the work. The Library is the register of resources — the record of everything published here alongside the outside papers, datasets and sources the research draws on. Writing is the repository of work written for the platform: full text, an audio edition where one exists, and the grouped references.
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Placeholder. Describe how work is commissioned, reviewed and cited: who reads a draft before publication, what counts as evidence, how sources are resolved and archived, how corrections are issued, and what licence the work carries.
Placeholder. Founding editor, contributors, advisors and affiliations go here. Human Havens was first written into being in 2019 with The Quiet City.
Placeholder. Pitches, corrections, collaborations and speaking requests — one address, one sentence on what to expect back and when.