SYSTEM
Look at the relationships shaping a place and the people within it.
- Systems analysis
- People, ecosystems & institutions
- Clear questions
SOLUTIONS / SYSTEMS + PROGRAMMES + STORIESUNDERSTAND.
Understand the Co-create Share meaningful
UNDERSTAND.
CO-CREATE.
SHARE.
Aralar Ecosystems is a creative Nature-Based Solutions company helping institutions, cities and universities address wellbeing and regenerative challenges.
We believe direct experience of the living world matters. As opportunities to encounter living places diminish, we want to create more ways to notice, understand and care for them.
Our work connects science, lived experience and cultural and biocultural knowledge. For everybody—especially young people and university students.
SOLUTIONS
Design educational paths for wellbeing through Nature-Based Solutions frameworks, with programmes that can be delivered and evaluated.
- Educational paths for wellbeing
- Nature-Based Solutions frameworks
- Cross-pollination spaces
- Lived experience
- Experimentation & learning
STORIES
Bring cultural and biocultural knowledge into conversations that matter.
- Cultural connectivity
- Documentary & dialogue
- Honest communication
We define the scope, study the outcomes and report limitations. Intended benefits become demonstrated results only when evidence supports them.
THE APPROACH IN PRACTICEPLACES.
PLACES.
PEOPLE.
PROJECTS.
CITY / DESIGNED PROPOSAL
City Lab Donostia
A Cross-pollination spaces design for the Sustainability department of Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and the Parks and Gardens department of Ayuntamiento de Donostia / San Sebastián.
Proposal developed February–September 2026. Implementation proposed.
View the pilot design →UNIVERSITIES / PROGRAMME IN DEVELOPMENT
Mendien Ahotsa
A project with university students in the Basque Country, developing into a cross-pollinating programme among mountain landscapes, communities and universities.
Five universities have expressed interest. Additional places and researchers are welcome.
Explore the international programme →INSTITUTIONS / PLACE-BASED PRACTICE
IrriSarri Land
A living path and sculpture created by Itziar Insausti: bringing a relationship with the living world into the experience of a place.
Institution Labs can bring together experiential learning, creative interventions and research questions shaped around local needs.
Explore institutional collaboration →BUILD THE NEXT POLLINATION SPACE WITH USLET’S
LET’S
TALK.
A place. A research question.
A programme to develop together.