About the BILD
A 501(c)(3) Field School for Living Design
Borrego Institute for Living Design (BILD) is a nonprofit field school, creative institute, and living laboratory.
Rooted in life’s proven processes, BILD offers a place for big visions to cross-fertilize and develop.
What we do
Learn from life.
For nearly four billion years, living systems have been adapting to constraints, developing new capacities, forming relationships, exchanging resources, experimenting, and becoming capable of things that weren't possible before. Through evolutionary biology, art, biomimicry, biocultural practice, design, and story, BILD explores what those patterns can teach us about the things human beings are trying to bring to life.
Grow capacity.
We work with mission-aligned organizations and initiatives to develop the capacities their work requires—not only funding and plans, but relationships, knowledge flows, complementary capabilities, experimentation, learning, and adaptive capacity.
Living Design Capacity Builders can support aligned grant-funded initiatives from proposal through implementation.
Invest in possibility.
BILD Fellowships support people carrying meaningful work and bring important capacities, perspectives, knowledge, and relationships into the larger BILD ecology. Fellowships may stand alone or be funded as part of a Living Design Capacity Builder engagement.
Cultivate the conditions.
BILD has its physical home on 86 acres adjoining Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. A place to think, learn, make, experiment, gather, and encounter people and possibilities we might never otherwise have found.
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