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Land-Based Art+Design seeks to pursue methodologies that uncover transformative design innovations and expressions that confront the colonial paradigm and promote a regenerative future. The practice questions the dominant systems, structures, and paradigms that inform design practices today and explores alternative approaches rooted in land-based epistemologies to produce solutions that prioritize Indigenous self-determinism, climate resilience and human well-being. We aim to demonstrate the validity of land-based epistemologies and ways-of-being in planning and design theory, to catalyze the practical implementation of new and regenerative approaches within and outside of Indigenous communities.