『Journal of Biophilic Design』のカバーアート

Journal of Biophilic Design

Journal of Biophilic Design

著者： Vanessa Champion editor Journal of Biophilic Design
無料で聴く

Welcome to our podcast series from the Journal of Biophilic Design, where we interview workplace consultants, futurists, interior designers, architects, urban planners and those working in healthcare, wellbeing and other industries to find out the latest on Biophilic Design. www.journalofbiophilicdesign.com

Content copyright Journal of Biophilic Design, opinions copyright the speaker. 心理学 心理学・心の健康 社会科学 科学 衛生・健康的な生活
エピソード
  • How do we make our increasingly dense cities healthier, greener and more resilient?

    How do we make our increasingly dense cities healthier, greener and more resilient?
    2026/09/02
    As our cities grow, access to clean air, clean water, biodiversity and meaningful connections with nature will become ever more important. In this conversation, we explore living architecture, green infrastructure, urban density, clean air and water — and how we can design cities that work better for both people and the planet. In this episode, we’re joined by James Worth, a landscape architect whose work is focused on finding practical, sustainable solutions for the future of our built environment.James is particularly passionate about Green Infrastructure and living architecture.James has also launched a very exciting series of roundtable online discussions: International Design Conversations. They started on Thursday 13 August and continue all year, I am joining one in October Biophilic Hospitality, Wellness & Regenerative Tourism 22 October 2026 What happens when we stop thinking of nature as something we add to a building and start thinking about it as part of the infrastructure of the city itself? For landscape architect James Worth, the answer lies in bringing disciplines, ideas and people together — and fundamentally rethinking how we design our urban environments.James has loads of experience spanning parks and gardens, civic spaces, urban design, ecology and biodiversity. James believes landscape architecture has a critical role to play in creating healthier, more resilient cities. As urban populations grow, access to clean air, clean water, biodiversity, shade and meaningful connections with nature cannot remain an afterthought. “There is the risk of green for aesthetic only,” he says, warning against greenwashing that makes a development look sustainable without delivering genuine environmental function. The answer is to go beyond the appearance of greenery and consider how landscape systems actually work, managing water, reducing heat, supporting biodiversity and reconnecting people with nature. “It’s very hard to retrofit trees and walls and roofs,” he points out. This is why landscape architects need to be part of the conversation from the beginning. Trees, rain gardens, green roofs, green walls, water systems and communal spaces cannot simply be retrofitted once the buildings have been designed. That philosophy is also behind James’ International Design Conversations, a series of online round-table discussions bringing together voices from different disciplines, cultures and areas of expertise. His motivation came partly from seeing how professional and governmental departments can operate in silos. “The best decisions come around the round table,” he says. The conversations deliberately bring academia together with private industry, alongside architects, town planners, engineers, ecologists, water specialists and biologists. “We can all advance sustainability together at a micro and macro planning level.”For biophilic designers, this interdisciplinary approach is crucial. Biophilic design helps practitioners understand the complex relationships between people, place, ecology, materials, water, climate and biodiversity. James describes this as a form of professional “symbiosis, one helping the other rather than not being mutually beneficial.” His vision for the future is not necessarily about building less densely, but about building more intelligently. Mid-rise development, green roofs, rain gardens, communal spaces, tree canopy and nature-based infrastructure can help us achieve density without creating ever more hostile concrete environments.Asked what he would create if he could paint the world with a magic brush of biophilia, James answered: “I would ensure that the places we inhabit don't take up so much space and give a lot more back to the greenery of the nature in the environment that we're living in.” That feels like a very good place to begin rethinking the city.Visit our events page to find out more: https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/events-1Or go straight to the International Design Conversations website: https://www.worthdesign.com.au/idcOur conversation on 22 October: https://www.worthdesign.com.au/idc005Find out more about Landscape Architecture and Biophilic Design start here: https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/shop/journal-of-biophilic-design-issue-20-landscape-architecture-ebookWhat is Biophilic Design? https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/what-is-biophilic-designWin one of 50 FREE digital subscriptions to the Journal of Biophilic Design memberships worth £89.99! https://mailchi.mp/journalofbiophilicdesign.com/50-free-subscription-promotion Credits: with thanks to George Harvey Audio Production for the calming biophilic soundscape that backs all of our podcasts. Listen to our podcast on Audible, Amazon Music, Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and all the RSS feeds.https://www.facebook.com/journalofbiophilicdesign/https://www.linkedin.com/company/journalofbiophilicdesign/https://...
    続きを読む 一部表示
    41 分
  • Living Architecture: Bioreceptive Design for People and Planet

    Living Architecture: Bioreceptive Design for People and Planet
    2026/08/20
    What if the buildings that help us tackle climate change were also the buildings that lift our spirits?We talk a great deal about the performance of buildings: how to reduce carbon, manage heat, conserve energy, deal with water and increase biodiversity. But perhaps we need to ask another question. What should these buildings look and feel like?Download a copy of the Monograph for free here: https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/shop/living-architecture-monograph-journal-of-biophilic-design For architect and Alive Labs founder Nicky Naidu, the answer is not to choose between performance and beauty. We should expect both.Nicky has spent 20 years working in architecture, including with Foster + Partners, Arup and Wilkinson Eyre, before stepping away from conventional practice to explore different ways of living and building. His journey ultimately led to Alive Labs, where he is developing bioreceptive materials designed to allow nature to become part of architecture itself.His starting point is philosophical.“We build what we are.”For Nicky, buildings are a reflection of the societies that create them. If we want a society that values nature, connection and care, perhaps our architecture should express those values too.That thinking has led Alive Labs to develop Terranite, a bioreceptive, carbon-negative construction material designed to support biological colonisation. Rather than simply attaching vegetation to a building, the material creates a substrate in which nature can participate.Moss is central to the approach. An ancient and remarkably resilient organism, it can absorb atmospheric pollutants, retain water, contribute to water filtration and provide thermal benefits. Alive Labs' system is designed to help reduce surface temperatures, while moss can contribute to cooling through evaporative processes and insulation in colder conditions.The implications for cities are considerable. Our buildings could become part of the infrastructure that helps address urban heat, stormwater and biodiversity loss rather than simply contributing to those pressures.But there is another opportunity here – and it is one we don't discuss enough.Beauty.Naidu questions the contemporary obsession with architecture as a diagram or a highly efficient box.“No one wants to live in a diagram, right?”He points instead towards the great architectural traditions of the past: Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance buildings and ancient temples, where proportion, geometry, ornament and symbolism were connected to ideas about nature, mathematics, spirituality and the cosmos.This is particularly relevant to Biophilic Design.Why shouldn't climate-responsive buildings be beautiful? Why shouldn't cladding become an opportunity for pattern, texture, shadow, planting and delight? Why should a building envelope have to be a flat, anonymous surface?Think about Palladian architecture and its extraordinary attention to proportion and rhythm. Think about the awe created by Gothic architecture. Think about the tactile qualities of natural materials. Now imagine bringing that same ambition into the buildings of the future – using contemporary materials and living systems that also cool, insulate, capture water and support biodiversity.As Nicky puts it, “net zero alone” is not enough. The ambition should be to do more.This could change how we think about the facade. It is no longer simply a protective skin between inside and outside. It can become infrastructure: environmental, ecological, sensory and cultural.And this applies inside as well as out. Alive Labs is developing living interior systems that can bring nature into schools, hospitals, workplaces and other buildings, creating spaces that people can see, touch and experience.Perhaps this is where the next chapter of Biophilic Design lies: not simply putting nature into buildings, but designing buildings that work with nature.Because, ultimately, architecture is about more than solving today's problems.“Buildings and our expressions in them are an expression of hope.”That feels like a good place to start imagining our cities of the future.The Journal of Biophilic Design has produced a Monograph with Nicky Naidu and Alive Labs, exploring the ideas, materials and thinking behind this pioneering approach to living architecture. The Monograph is available to explore alongside our interview with Nicky. https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/biophilic-design-monographsFind out more about Alive LabsAlive Labs: www.alivelabs.co.ukAbout the Journal of Biophilic DesignThe Journal of Biophilic Design explores the intersection of nature, science, architecture, interiors, landscape, environmental psychology, health and wellbeing – bridging the gap between research and practice.Subscribe, explore our latest issues and discover more conversations with the people shaping the future of Biophilic Design.#BiophilicDesign #AliveLabs #NickyNaidu #LivingArchitecture #BioreceptiveDesign #...
    続きを読む 一部表示
    44 分
  • Eye of the Beholder: Frank Lloyd Wright, Photography, Biophilia and Awe

    Eye of the Beholder: Frank Lloyd Wright, Photography, Biophilia and Awe
    2026/08/13
    What happens when we stop looking at a building simply as a building?For Lincoln Stoller, physicist, psychotherapist and son of celebrated architectural photographer Ezra Stoller, the answer lies somewhere between architecture, psychology, nature, photography and the human capacity to experience something beyond the immediately visible.Ezra Stoller was regarded as one of the pre-eminent architectural photographers of his generation. His extraordinary archive includes some of the most significant buildings of twentieth-century modernism, photographed not simply as objects, but as experiences. His approach was distinctive: rather than producing straightforward images designed to showcase a building, he sought something beyond it – what Lincoln describes as the “essential and ethereal.”This is particularly fascinating when we consider Frank Lloyd Wright, whose architecture is now frequently discussed through the lens of Biophilic Design, despite Wright never using the term. Wright trusted Ezra to understand what he was trying to achieve without needing to explain it. Lincoln describes their relationship as almost a meeting of opposites: Wright the forceful creator, Ezra the sensitive and receptive observer. Together, they understood something difficult to put into words – the ineffable quality of space.And perhaps this is where photography and Biophilic Design meet.We talk increasingly about awe: the experience of encountering something larger, more complex or more powerful than ourselves. In Biophilic Design, awe can be created through views, scale, natural processes, unexpected vistas, light, movement and encounters with the living world. Wright intuitively understood the power of these experiences. At Fallingwater, for example, architecture, water, landscape, movement and changing views combine to create something that is far more than a collection of rooms.Ezra's photographs similarly invite us to pause. They create vistas within vistas, playing with light, scale, confinement, openness and perspective. They ask us not simply to look, but to notice, associate, feel and imagine. As Lincoln puts it, the best photographs can call into our minds things we have not previously seen, felt or thought.That makes Eye of the Beholder more than an architectural photography book. It is an invitation to reconsider how we see the built environment – and what it might reveal about ourselves.Lincoln is currently raising support through Kickstarter to preserve Ezra Stoller's remarkable photographic archive and bring these images and their stories together in a new book. For architects, designers, photographers, students and anyone interested in the relationship between people, place and perception, it is an opportunity to encounter some familiar buildings through very different eyes.Because sometimes the most important thing a photograph can show us is not the building itself, but what the building makes us feel.** Win one of 50 digital subscriptions to the Journal of Biophilic Design, just sign up to our free newsletter throughout August 2026 sign up for the chance of winning: https://mailchi.mp/journalofbiophilicdesign.com/50-free-subscription-promotion Links mentioned in the Podcast: https://www.mindstrengthbalance.com‍ ‍https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindstrengthbalance/from-the-eye-of-the-beholderLincoln’s Substack article “Is Architecture History or Prophecy?”, https://mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/p/is-architecture-history-or-prophesy?triedRedirect=trueWhat is Biophilic Design: https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/what-is-biophilic-design If you love Architecture why not download our PDF on Biophilic Design and Architecture: https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/shop/journal-of-biophilic-design-issue-17-architecture-ebook Please register for our newsletter on our website https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/podcasts-journal-of-biophilic-design Credits: with thanks to George Harvey Audio Production for the calming biophilic soundscape that backs all our podcasts. Did you know our podcast is also on Audible, Amazon Music, Spotify, iTunes, and all the RSS feeds? Facebook https://www.facebook.com/journalofbiophilicdesign/ LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/company/journalofbiophilicdesign/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/journalofbiophilicdesign
    続きを読む 一部表示
    46 分
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません