Loops that regenerate
Regenerative systems design studio working at the intersection of circular economy, environmental justice, and territorial transformation. Through [x]scaping, we help industries, cities, and territories turn what they carry into a force for change.
A world where no landscape is considered wasted.
To make the invisible visible, close the loops that linear economies leave open, and design regenerative transitions rooted in the specific reality of each territory.
Why [x]scaping?
What if the lands we consider “wasted” are, in fact, future infrastructures for regeneration?
We are living in the Wasteocene. An era defined not by a material or a discovery, but by waste, its scale, its unequal distribution, and the landscapes and lives it produces. Pollution is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of extractive-linear economies that degrade environments and discard the communities within them.
Our problems are connected. A contaminated soil, a burdened community, a broken value chain are not separate crises. They are the same system, expressing itself differently across territories. From a single grain of soil to a planetary supply chain, the thread runs through.
Most of the damage is invisible. The data is incomplete, the maps are blank, and the communities most affected are the least represented in the systems meant to protect them. Our frameworks look precisely in those gaps, making visible what has been overlooked, measuring what has been ignored, and surfacing what has been underrepresented.
As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds and new directions may emerge. That is the possibility [x]scaping works toward. To read those connections across scales, from the material to the planetary, and design the transitions that turn what is being wasted into the starting point for regeneration.
— Tunca Beril Basaran
Join us
Curious, committed, and globally connected, we are a group of spatial designers, data scientists, engineers, designers, and systems thinkers. Together, we believe the most meaningful work happens at the edges, between disciplines, across scales, and in the space between what is known and what is yet to be discovered.
Based in Berlin, our work is driven by focus and intention, shaped by asking difficult questions and supporting one another across boundaries.
Open, inclusive collaboration sits at the core of how we work, and people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences are warmly welcomed.
Explore our open positions below. If none feel like the right fit but the work resonates, speculative applications are always encouraged at info@cosmolabs.net.