IRDI’s mission is to co-create local restorative economies through Regenerative Agriculture, Curriculum Design, and Health Innovation. Our vision is to activate the agriculture supply-chain by engaging local, regional, and global stakeholders in regenerative development from the soil-up.

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What’s the impact of your work? Working in collaboration with our national partner Bionutrient Food Association, IRDI is fundamentally changing the food supply-chain to increase the health and wellness of urban and rural environments across North Carolina and hopefully beyond. IRDI connects cities to their rural counterparts and establishes regenerative agricultural practices.

What is the core focus of IRDI's work? Launching the world's first Living Documentary entitled Aiôn over 2023 - 2025, this iDoc is the central 'solution-synthesizer' of IRDI's 'complexity-approach' to resolving some of the world's most difficulty problems. To this end and launched on Sept. 21st as a part of dream.org's National Day of Dialogue, communities from across North Carolina have begun a #NCSOLUTIONSTOUR to spark a “National Resiliency Movement.” As a part of this movement, these communities have come together to launch THE WORLD’S FIRST LIVING DOCUMENTARY called Aiôn. Winston Salem, the City of Arts & Innovation is leading this movement by unveiling a systemic Health & Wellness model that holds the potential to #HEALOURNATION from the soil-up. We welcome you to come and be a part of co-creating solutions to some of our world's most perplexing problems including Climate Change, Mass Incarceration and Childhood Hunger.

How are we going to spend your money? We will use your contributions to cover our monthly operating expenses and expand our team. Specifically, our operating expenses will be used to pay IRDI folks for launching the co-creative process involved with the development of the iDoc. This includes but is not limited to LASG's Augmented Folio that informs the development of the experimental work/book's entitled Assembling Restoration: Living Architecture & Regenerative Design and Aiôn: Co-Creating Community Resiliency through Metabolic Design. Better understood as three distinct functional pieces of art, the books as well as the Folio is less a traditional work of philosophy and design illustrations than it is an augmented platform through which the iDoc's assemblage of 'eons' is conceptually formed. Within this platform/world assemblage exists many stacks or layers that include but are not limited to videos for the emerging living-doc, press releases, Indiegogo funding campaign, NFT campaign, DPO campaign, development of "grounding" institutions, design charrettes, Action Plan(s), an Augmented Folio, a Food Innovation District and so much more.

One central component of this 'platform' approach to book/folio writing/doing is that many of the sections and chapters that are released through this Patreon site will be accompanied by open dialogues with field experts, community members, practitioners and other stakeholders. These open dialogues will inform the final works themselves thus generating a sort-of "co-creative feedback loop" for the final books and Folio.

As a partner with IRDI, your contribution will directly impact local and regional economies, bringing resilience and restoration to individuals and communities in need. For more about the emerging regional economy, please watch this 2016 TEDx.