The BILD     

a Field School for Living Design

in collaboration with Geoversity Foundation, Seeding Change, Brand Earth, One World and more

501(c)(3) status pending

with evolutionary anthropologist and biomimicry pioneer

Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker

more than just habitat conservation, cultural preservation, sustainable business, or climate restoration

Living Design

means remembering our role in the living systems we are part of and depend on.

Your donation helps leaders connect their purpose to the unique potential of place and people, through biocultural knowledge and practice.

Discover Living Design at the BILD

2 hours East of San Diego, 90 minutes South of Palm Springs, surrounded by the

Anza Borrego Desert State Park

California’s largest, known for its stunning wildflower displays, otherworldly badlands, thrilling hawk migrations, and iconic bighorn sheep

an 86-acre wilderness ranch dotted with the morteros, hearths, and hand tools of the Kumeyaay, Cupa, and Cahuilla people who continue to call this region home for some 12,000 years.

a place outside of time, where we work to remember human being and doing

  • Nature of Place

  • Campfire Cosmology + Storytelling

  • Biomimicry Exploration

  • Naturalist Skills + Bushcraft

  • Track + Trail

  • Traditional Archery + Flintmaking

  • Plein Air Drawing

  • Harvesting + Care

  • Living Mythology

  • Place-Sourced Arts

  • Teeming

  • Place-Aligned Design

Nurture your nature of place through proven biocultural knowledge, practice, and leadership.

  • Dark Sky Camping

  • Close-up of Borrego Springs Residence - Borrego Institute for Living Design

    Creative Residencies

  • Historic Rooms

  • Events

  • Retreats

  • Wide view of Borrego Springs Residence - Borrego Institute for Living Design

    Internships