Today I attended Vestre’s Fika with Friends conference talk that discussed the latest in UN development goals, biophilic design and biophilic urbanism with leading experts in the industry. It was a very insightful talk raising a lot of key points. The main parts I took from the discussion can be found below.
Vestre’s Fika with Friends
- Biophilic approach to management of urban areas
- How green spaces or cities can be made more biophilic – the differences between urban and green in their attributes, it isnt just about green infrastructure its on repeated meaningful events and engagement
- (in my work) For events to create repeat customers to keep coming back and grow their connection in spaces
- The work of Stephen Kellert
- Core principles of biophilia – the depth and principles biophilia has
- Biophilic urbanisim
- Retain biophilic deisgn principles, with continuity and connectivity and play to local strengths
- Connectivty shown in singapore park connector network – connecting parks across the city so you don’t have to walk on the roads
- Bringing nature into the cities and providing peolle the opportunity to interact with nature will really devlop connections to nature
- Create richness in biophilic deisgns – not with repeating items
- Habitat corridors
- Viewing planning cities as creating habitats
- Meeting Target 15.9 in sustainability goals
- Time to unite all of this work together into a form of policy – lots of very interesting ideas and work going on around biophilic design and biophilic urbanism but there needs a clearly defined target together?
- Planted event in Septemebr (already got a tikcet for attendence) all sustainabiliy tested brands
- Field to lawn – natural living space – natural marquee company
- Benchmark brand – wood
- connect likeminded brand and businesses to enable thought and discussion around biophilia
- botanical market – more traditional market space – products about beauty and nature
- Viewing our relationship with nature are trainign a muscle – if you go to the gym once there is little impact, you have to keep going and working on it within truly complex natural environments.
- Becorp certification
If you care for nature on a small scale, you are much more likely to care for it on a broader and bigger scale. The nurturing of something leads to greater connection and community.
Reflection
After hearing the speakers today I am even more excited to visit the planted event in September, as two of the speakers are directly involved in the company Planted which is running the event. I am also going to reach out to Sam and Becks from the panel with the work I am doing to see if there would be an opportunity for collaboration with them in the future. I feel our goals are very strongly allied, however, they do have a broader focus for large scale change through the venture which could offer a really interesting aspect to my more focus smaller scale work as part of my master’s work.