We’re building a movement of dreamers, backers, and connectors.
We believe abundance is not measured by accumulation, but by equilibrium — when all species, including our own, thrive in relation to one another.
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are accelerating at an unprecedented rate.
We started Model of Architecture Serving Society to support the thought leaders that are fighting to reverse this cycle, towards an abundant future.
We are architects, landscape architects, filmmakers, engineers, and activists—united by a shared purpose: the belief that design, when practiced with ecological and cultural intelligence, can heal.
MASS is working to advance projects that demonstrate the power of regenerative design in action.
These projects go beyond buildings, serving as real-world proof of what’s possible when design addresses systemic challenges and improves lives.
The following initiatives are just a few samples of projects underway that demonstrate how design, at its best, creates the conditions for people to thrive. They remind us that a more just and beautiful future is ours to create.
The Fall Kill Blueway, a tributary of the Hudson River and historical source of hydro-power for over 84 mills, is an initiative to transform an underutilized post-industrial creek that runs through the heart of Poughkeepsie, New York into an asset and armature for regional climate resilience.
The Moving Windmills Innovation Center in Kasungu, Malawi empowers youth and farmers through sustainable design and community-led innovation—an initiative co-founded by William Kamkwamba, whose story inspired The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
The Living Monument, spanning sites across the US-Canada border, restores Native habitats, repurposes existing infrastructure, and creates gathering spaces that reconnect Indigenous communities across colonial boundaries, honoring ancestral leadership while empowering today's leaders to address shared challenges.
The Wind River Tribal Buffalo Center in Wyoming will be a Tribally led hub for buffalo rematriation, restoring ecosystems through the buffalo’s natural behaviors while supporting intergenerational stewardship rooted in Shoshone and Arapaho knowledge, relationships, and lifeways.
The Abundant Futures Design Lab is creating a design and building process that contributes to the health of all living things.
We research, design, and implement bold, place-based projects that demonstrate what regenerative design can do. Our work leverages the intersections of the built environment with public health, climate resilience, and social justice, generating knowledge that influences both industry and policy.
Iwan Baan
"Abundance does not mean limitless. It does not mean a surfeit, and it does not mean bountiful. Abundance is balance. In ecological terms, a species becomes abundant when it maintains a stable population that coexists in harmony with its surroundings. Achieving this balance means operating within limits, neither overexploiting resources nor becoming overly scarce. An abundant ecology fosters biodiversity and resilience."
Alan Ricks, Co-Executive Director and Founding Principal
We produce legible, compelling, and culturally powerful films that show how to restore and steward living systems.
Our award-winning internal team creates bespoke media, featured from 60 Minutes to Netflix and Discovery.
Matt Teuten
Through talks, installations, film screenings, and events, we expand what people believe is possible—and bring together the coalitions to make it real.
ORO Editions
Our new book, Seeking Abundance: Design, Ecology and a Flourishing Planet, co-authored by MASS founders Sierra Bainbridge and Alan Ricks, explores architecture as an ecological and cultural practice shaped by landscape, climate, and craft.
It makes the case that regenerative design can heal both planet and community — halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and advancing social equity.
The Seeking Abundance Conversation Series, inspired by MASS's latest book, is unfolding across cities in distinct bioregions around the globe, reflecting the structure and spirit of the publication.
Each event is conceived as both a book talk and an immersive experience—part conversation, part invitation to act with greater intention—asking how we might rethink the ways we work, design, and care for the places we inhabit.
Matt Teuten
Abundant Futures / Live is an immersive cultural convening that brought together community leaders, creatives, dreamers, and philanthropists to look boldly toward the world we want to build together.
Hosted at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in November 2025, the day drew over 80 performers, speakers, and artists across keynotes, conversations, films, and breakout sessions.
Together, MASS and the wide breadth of speakers, performers, and partners imagined a world where wellbeing, belonging, and flourishing formed the shared foundations of an Abundant Future.
→ Check out MASS's Youtube for the full list of talks from Abundant Futures / Live
Please reach out to partner with us to design a regenerative initiative in your ecosystem or organization. We look forward to working together.
For more information, please reach out to cbaten@mass-group.org
