The climate walks that have shaken the streets of the world’s largest cities this year have discredited the exponential and extractivist development model that has been hailed by society for a century. Ecology is no longer the isolated struggle of a few, but the realm of a greater malaise, that of a broken relationship with our natural environment and the community. What if sustainable development was not, in fact, long lasting enough? This issue of Raccords invites us to draw inspiration from the intimate operating principles of nature, ancestral know-how and the specific characteristics intrinsic to each environment to regain lost harmony. For innovation sometimes also means taking a step back.