Call for Proposals / Symposium Announcement:

Preparations for NYPH’s Regenerative Metropolis Symposium 2026 are underway! Reflecting the inspiring success of this past year’s event, we again invite this incredible passive house and regenerative design & construction community to submit proposals for presentations. We are interested in any project, development, process, system, policy or product - that reaches for Regenerative Design and addresses Passive House principles.

Passive House as Foundation to System Integration

Passive house’s reliable and superior energy performance with its myriad of co-benefits, is the cornerstone of the architectural solutions we require to be able to thrive. It is a firm foundation upon which we can build a regenerative society that repairs ecosystems damage, reverses it, and begins to increase all life. There is a rising consciousness emerging revealing how comprehensive the field of sustainability is truly required to be if we are to meaningfully move towards regeneration.

Architecture, at its best, embodies our wisest systems knowledge.

How can our cities deploy our best understanding of regenerative stewardship? Can urban architecture support best practices within sibling systems such as agriculture, land use, energy, and ecosystem stewardship? We have many tools ready to create the regenerative metropolis: all-electric passive house high performance buildings, carbon sequestering materials such as those created from regenerating soils, holistic local ecological stewardship, and low toxicity products that support health along the entire value chain.

High Performance Carbon Sequestration

This Symposium will explore potential scalable regenerative technologies for the world's largest urban constructed environments. The material science of carbon storing building components is receiving much-needed attention, but scalable solutions need wider adoption and development. Passive House energy efficiency coupled with scalable carbon storing materials for widespread use and large urban contexts, can provide the solution humanity needs and deserves now.

Carbon Sequestering: Synthesizing Passive House and Healthy Materials

The symposium “Carbon Sequestering: Synthesizing Passive House and Healthy Materials” will explore the possibility of radically reducing carbon emissions of the constructed environment; and explore where low carbon/carbon sequestering materials may also present healthier material options. The event will feature presentations, panel discussions and workshops bringing together professionals and students to advance the discussion to reach carbon-zero buildings.