From Design Consulting To Regenerative Developer with Joel Fariss

From Design Consulting To Regenerative Developer with Joel Fariss

May 27, 2026 · 1h 1m

About this episode

The episode explores how starting real estate development with inquiry can lead to projects that are financially viable, ecologically resilient, and socially meaningful.

Most real estate projects begin with a neat answer: a program, a typology, a unit count, a pitch deck that already “knows” what a site should become. In this conversation, we take the opposite approach and ask what happens when development begins with inquiry. Joel Fariss, founder of Sysoma Partners, joins me to explore how systems thinking, human experience design, and community relationships can shape projects that are financially viable, ecologically resilient, and socially meaningful. Joe...

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