Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration (The MIT Press)

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Teacher shortages, lack of clear vision, challenging finances in UK schools, little effective professional development, declining community expertise, a young subject, a shift away from it's need for HE progression, a vocational label. Experts say this desire to fill indoor environments with objects from the outdoors ties in to the growing movement toward ‘biophilic design’, which is a concept used to increase wellbeing through both direct and indirect exposure to nature. An increasing body of evidence shows that incorporating nature can help with things like decreasing stress and increasing productivity, creativity and attention span. Certified B Corporations “are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.

This is how Google addresses a rather complicated and long process of copying information to Pixel phones. Back in 2014, before Hubbub was founded, we explored why environmental messages were struggling to resonate with a mainstream audience. While we continue to see nature as something that we can take and destroy and as something that it is separate to us, it is unlikely that anything will change. For too long, we have taken an approach that design is about expressing the corporate identity, be that power, wealth, status or scale.This is how we mimic and evoke a feeling of nature, using natural materials, colours, textures, patterns and different technologies. It is about attracting people, keeping them productive, happy and healthy, and making sure they don’t want to leave. As Leung says: “The lessons from Covid-19 are stark: when we respect the natural world and its rules, there is enormous mutual benefit; when we ignore these rules, nature will not respect us.

As Australian cities become denser, the benefits of connecting to nature increase, yet we often tell ourselves that it is not possible to bring nature into the city, that it requires too much space or is best left to the creation of parks where it can stay separate from our built spaces. The scheme introduced pollinator-friendly shrub and perennial planting, sensitively located blossoming fruit trees, hedge enhancement, along with swathes of bulbs and wildflowers adding colour and enjoyment to grassed verges. It seems today that nobody claims to speak a foreign language they haven’t studied but everybody thinks they know design . Birmingham is about to approve a plan to join Cities With Nature, a worldwide initiative to support cities working to create a sustainable urban environment, says Grayson.Design Nature CIC is a Reading-based Social Enterprise, formally established in 2021 by Co-Directors, Mark Mason, Erica Purvis and Karen Gracie-Langrick, with a combined 80+ years of experience – spanning the corporate, grass root community start-ups and academic worlds, in sustainable design, engineering and education. We want to support insight-led, experimental, and collaborative design to be at the heart of solving environmental issues. The main formal park for Penryn occupies an important location on a gateway to the town, with an existing play area and the Treluswell Stream running through the middle. The Bee Brick, their most popular item, is used with in building construction as well as a stand alone in one’s garden. Based in Munich, Germany, Persuaid is a strategic agency focused on branding and digital product design.