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In Pawlyn's opinion, the best way that architects can create regenerative architecture is by using biomimicry. Biomimicry is a functional discipline that translates functions and processes found biology into solutions that meet human needs, which Pawlyn has been championing since 2006 when he established his studio Exploration Architecture.

However architecture is currently stuck in the "outdated mitigation paradigm" where, at best, studios are striving for architecture that does no additional harm to the environment and only sustains its own existence. Part of the problem, he believes, is green building standards like LEED and BREEAM that accredit buildings for achieving neutrality.

Architects must urgently go beyond creating sustainable architecture that minimises damage to the planet and design buildings that help repair it, says Michael Pawlyn from Architects Declare.

"We all fooled ourselves that sustainability was getting us where we needed to go and it was all making everything better," he told Dezeen. "There's something inherently problematic in the framing of sustainability that implies the best you can aspire to is neutrality, and anything less than that is just part of a degenerative downward cycle."