I have roughly planned the topics for the discussions and subsequent content in the community that will relate to the discussion theme for each month over the upcoming year and beyond. This plan can be seen below.
Year Plan of Nature In Content
November 2021 – How can nature improve wellbeing in cities?
- Health benefits of nature – physical and mental
- Suggestions of where to interact with nature in cities (start with London)
- Ideas of how to add nature into the city
- Ideas of how to add nature into your work practises – interior designers, to graphic designers to office workers
December 2021 – How can nature be added into city spaces through businesses/ professions?
- Nature and work environment
- Percy Smith to guest speak?
Also – include some Nature in winter – making the most of nature this winter in cities
- Festive ideas of adding nature into cities
- Winter ways of interacting with nature
January 2022 – Nature and the climate crisis
- New year, new goals for nature – making nature integrated into cities to aid climate change
- Facts on the power of nature for climate change
February 2022 – Designing urban interiors with nature
- Interior designers and architects guest speakers and graphic designers?
- Alia Fadel to guest? – landscape architect
March 2022– Nature and Technology
- Can technology boost connections to nature?
- Sue Thomas and Kristina Libby to guest speak
- Exploring nature and virtual reality to aid wellbeing/ mental health – ask Sam to collab on an activity tying in with her project on VR and metal health
April 2022 – Economics of Biophilic Design
- How can adding nature into your work help you attract more customers and increase profits?
- Bill and Catie Terrapin Bright Green guest speak
May 2022 – Natural building in cities
- Jeffery Heart Guest speaker
- What can natural building do for work/ life in urban interiors?
June 2022 – Regenerative design and nature
- Carole Collet to guest speak
July 2022 – Increasing connections to nature through targeting the senses
August 2022 – Increasing connections to nature through targeting the senses Nature and furniture/ sustainable furniture practises
- Yarn Collective etc to guest speak
- How products are made, their link to nature and importance
- Explore how sustainable/ natural materials help to link to nature
September 2022 – Is a green wall really the bets we can do?
- General debate/ collaboration of companies pushing innovative ways of how nature can be added into spaces
- Could even form this idea into a competition – getting companies to collaborate and produce ideas to add nature to an internal city space
- The ideas can then be pitched as part of a competition where the winner gets to create their idea and install it in a given space
- This does require someone to volunteer a space for the installation of the natural design
- People will take part as it offers an opportunity to showcase their work, which can draw people to get involved in their work as customers or collaborators
- The ideas can then be pitched as part of a competition where the winner gets to create their idea and install it in a given space
October 2022 – What is the power of plants in a city spaces?
- Plant designs and planteria
November 2022 – Biodiversity/ rewilding for those of us in cities
December 2022 – Nature and city culture
- Exploring in music, fashion, nightlife and how to incorporate nature
January 2023 – How to introduce nature in none-creative careers – nature for lawyers, bankers and business people in the city – ‘we haven’t forgotten about you’
- Pushing past things companies do for their employees in regard to nature, such as adding nature to work environments and instead focusing more upon how nature can aid personal work/ careers
February 2023– Nature and displacement activities form screens
March 2023 – Nature and food
- Contact chefs or the likes of Waitrose food magazine writers for a special
- How to feel close to nature through city food, where foraging and growing your own food is out of the question
- Nature for city chefs? – contact London honey company to guest speak?
- Bearing in mind out pricing people due to heightened prices of local produce?
Reflection
Having this plan of my future content, past the point of my masters, has allowed me to develop a framework that I can continuously add to as I formulate new ideas that I wish to explore through the Nature In Community. This plan will also allow me to begin contacting guest speakers and arranging panel discussions to ensure that everyone has enough time to find suitable availability for the discussions.