Co-developed with our partners Zedaxis and Bosque Fractal, The Living Atlas is an emerging initiative to help communities see, connect, and navigate the complex systems shaping the places they call home. It weaves together ecological data, governance insight, and local knowledge to support shared learning and regenerative action across bioregions.
Co-designed with stakeholders from four international bioregional communities, the Living Atlas is envisioned as both a digital platform and experiential learning process for system-sensing, collaboration, and regenerative decision-making. We begin this work focusing on seagrass restoration but hope to develop it much further in the future.
Living Atlas: A Decision System for Seagrass Restoration
Why It Matters
Across the world, communities are working to restore ecosystems and strengthen stewardship of their lands and waters.
But the knowledge needed to guide this work—ecological monitoring, restoration history, governance systems, and lived experience—is often fragmented across institutions and communities.
The Living Atlas helps bring these pieces together, creating a shared way to understand complex systems and coordinate regenerative action.
How We Are Developing It
The Living Atlas is currently in conceptual development and early prototyping. Through COBALT’s Spirit of Place learning program, practitioners from multiple bioregions have explored how a shared platform could support regeneration in their regions.
This work has already produced a working API prototype, regional StoryMaps and governance analyses, and collaborative learning across bioregions including Maine, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Colombia. These early efforts are helping shape the Atlas as a living system that grows through practice and collaboration.
Stay tuned for more updates!
