Journal of Biophilic Design
Episodes
Is Colour the Missing Link in Nature-Centric Biophilic Spaces
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered why some spaces instantly relax you, while others energise or even irritate? The secret might lie in the colour! Karen Haller, is an exp...
Will Knight Material Matters
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how materials shape our environment? What happens when design meets nature? If you’re craving a fresh perspective on sustaina...
The Biophilic Imperative - From Sustainability to Regeneration
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Biophilic Regenerative DesignIs it Utopian thinking to imagine a world architected not just to sustain, but to regenerate. A space where every brick, ...
The New Stone Age
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine furniture, cities and buildings that tell stories rooted in local geology, where the materials and forms echo the unique landscapes of t...
Interview Special - Workspace Design Show 2026 London
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At The Workspace Design Show at the Business Design Centre in London this year, I had the privilege of chairing a dynamic panel featuring industry lea...
How to Fast-track a Regenerative Future
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Efforts to tackle the climate and nature crisis often focus on policy, science and activism. But according to Will Hayler, founder and CEO of The Blue...
We spend 90% of our time indoors. Here’s how Biophilic Design can make that healthier.
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We spend about 90% of our lives indoors, yet our cities, offices and homes are rarely designed with the biological reality of that fact in mind. ...
Collect 2026: Metamorphosis and the Polish Design Connection
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered why we feel so alive when we’re surrounded by nature? Why certain textures, materials, or natural elements spark deep emotion...
One minute to breathe. How images of nature can help save our A&E staff
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Emergency departments are some of the most punishing workplaces in healthcare. Clinicians move in seconds from breaking catastrophic news to families,...
Biophilic Design and Innovative Place Typologies for a new Generation of Developers
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have a climate crisis, housing shortages, and increasing urban disconnection, we need a pioneering radical approach to development that puts nature...
Biophilic design: buzzword or big deal? A Workplace Geeks investigation™️
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this special episode of the Journal of Biophilic Design podcast. We’re really excited to share this feature from our very first ...
Can a Biophilic Strategy redefine our Urban Future?
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The way we've conceived cities for the past 100 years has been far too extractive, far too one-dimensional. We need cities that are more productive, ...
Urban Biophilia - SUGi’s Pocket Forests Are Rewilding City Life
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SUGi creates pocket forests that breathe life into urban spaces. Founded in London and now operating in over 50 cities worldwide, SUGi uses the innova...
Blurring Boundaries, Biophilia and US Modernist Architecture
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US Modernist architecture and Biophilic Design share a philosophical alignment, both fundamentally committed to creating human-centric spaces that cel...
Digital Nature. Is your smartphone your Secret Weapon for Mental Health and Healing?
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know 10 million people watched the first episode of Planet Earth III – the same number who visit the Peak District annually? We're hungry f...
Beyond Carbon - Oliver Heath on Biophilic Regenerative Design
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We're facing enormous challenges - climate crisis, biodiversity loss, social and economic inequity. These are complex, interlinked issues that we can...
Playa Viva - where Biophilia meets Living Ecology
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nestled along Mexico's Pacific coast, David Leventhal's Playa Viva is redefining hospitality through a radical commitment to regenerative design. More...
Landscape and Play with Biophilic Design
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If two people could combat our growing urban disconnection, it is Adam White and Andrée Davies of Davies White Limited. I met them at our first Bioph...
The Urgent Need for Urban Trees
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cities face unprecedented environmental challenges, and it’s no secret that trees offer multiple solutions: reducing urban temperatures, mitigating ...
Biophilic Eudaimonia
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of eudaimonia, rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, is more than just happiness. Eudaimonia represents a state of good spirit and the realis...
How to Design a Biophilic Community
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nestled in the Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, is Serenbe, the biophilic community leading the wellness real estate and agrihood movements. It is a neig...
Architecture, Epigenetics, Biophilia and Human Health
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Architects are increasingly recognising that our built environments do more than shelter us—they fundamentally shape our physical and mental wellbei...
The Biophilic approach to Learning Spaces
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Garden designer Lisa Norton has been pushing forward a beautiful biophilic approach to learning spaces that puts nature at the heart of education. For...
Unworking - A Biophilic Reinvention of the Modern Office?
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Biophilic design is not just an aesthetic choice, but a critical evolution in workplace design. As work becomes increasingly digital and flexible, the...
Roots to Renders - Sugarcane's Journey into Creative Design
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"A world where materials are in harmony with nature." Wouldn’t that be amazing? I truly believe, that biophilic designers can specify this change, a...
The School of Biophilia
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The School of Biophilia seeks to foster a deeper connection between people and the natural environment through a comprehensive and innovative educatio...
Light, Play and Possibility - in conversation with Frankie Boyle, experiential light artist
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Light profoundly impacts our neurological and biological systems through its connection to our evolutionary history. Our brains are fundamentally prog...
Learning to let Nature in and design spaces that breathe
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Interior spaces can become sanctuaries that nurture human health, well-being, and our fundamental connection to the living systems around us when we a...
What is a Blueprint for Nature? The fusion of One Planet Living and Biophilic Design
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we design our cities and towns that are not only sustainable but also help us flourish. In this podcast we explore the intersection between On...
Cities as Forests? Biophilic Design and the Art of Architectural Restoration
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world increasingly disconnected from nature, architects like Nick De Klerk are pioneering a transformative approach to design that reconnects hum...
Ecourbanism, Microbiomes and the Biophilia Hypothesis - transforming places for people and planet.
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the concrete jungle of modern urban living, we've lost something fundamental: our connection to the natural world. But Biophilic Design is offering...
Biophilic City - Birmingham's Radical Urban Transformation
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an inspiring conversation with the Journal of Biophilic Design, Nick Grayson, Birmingham's former climate change and sustainability manager, reveal...
Building Hope with Sustainable and Biophilic Construction
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the battle against climate change, few sectors are as critical—and challenging—as construction. Simon Corbey, CEO of the Alliance for Sustainab...
Wool Revolution - Why every Biophilic Designer needs to know about this..
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a quiet laboratory in Manchester, a quiet revolution is brewing that could dramatically reshape the construction industry's environmental impact. L...
The Sound of Silence - How Noise is destroying our connection to nature and each other
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Treasure gives us a stark warning emerges about humanity's growing disconnection from the natural world - and it's happening through our ears.J...
How can Biophilic Design help reverse Climate Change?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the urgent battle against climate change, an unexpected hero is emerging: biophilic design. Far more than a trendy architectural concept, it repres...
Reimagining Workplaces: The Green Revolution in Design - Interviews from the Workspace Design Show 2025
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Catching up with some designers leading the way for workplace transformation at the Workspace Design Show in February this year, we learnt that there ...
Architect Amanda Sturgeon on Biophilic Design and Biomimicry
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world increasingly dominated by sterile, lifeless buildings, one architect is on a mission to reawaken our innate connection to the natural world...
Healthy Hospital Street – How Biophilic Design is transforming healthcare in cities.
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the heart of London, a quiet revolution is underway, one that is set to transform the way we experience our urban environments. At the forefront of...
Seeing the Light: How Biophilic Lighting Design improves Health and Wellbeing
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world increasingly dominated by artificial environments, the importance of reconnecting with nature has never been more crucial. Xander Cadisch, ...
Biophilic Design: Reconnecting Humanity with Nature Through Sustainable Architecture - Nomadic Resorts
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We recently published Issue 11 https://journalofbiophilicdesign.com/journal-of-biophilic-design-1 of the Journal of Biophilic Design w...
Designing for the Senses: How Biophilic Workspaces Can Unlock Human Potential
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an age where the modern workplace is rapidly evolving, a growing chorus of designers and workplace strategists are championing a radical new approa...
Charlotte Church - The Dreaming
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reconnecting with Nature: Charlotte's Biophilic Retreat Offers Healing and WonderIn a secluded corner of the Welsh countryside, internationally renown...
Reconnecting with Nature: The Biophilic Design Revolution
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an age of increasing urbanisation and digital distractions, a growing movement is seeking to reestablish our innate connection with the natural wor...
Biophilic Design and Retail spaces
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lyn Falk is founder and president of Retailworks, Inc. – an award-winning branding, design, display and consulting firm specializing in retail, corp...
HuffnPuff House
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talina Edwards, founder of the award-winning architecture firm Envirotecture, shares her passion for sustainable, biophilic design that reconnects peo...
How our Brains respond to Biophilic Design
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a world increasingly disconnected from nature, the principles of biophilic design offer a powerful antidote.Chintamani Bird, an Australian designer...
The Spine - Liverpool: How Biophilic Design was used to create the highest WELL Certified Building in the World…
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does a passion for biophilic design, which stems from a desire to improve an architect and designer’s own health, lead to the design of a major ...
Biophilic Design healing our earth - interview with Jojo Mehta co-founder of Stop Ecocide International
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I love this term biophilia, because it's this, in a sense, it's a love of nature in a word, isn't it? And I had this beautiful description recently o...
Living in Balance and Symbiosis with Nature through Biophilic Design
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can Biophilic Design be used to create happier and healthier environments? Ben Channon is an architect, author, TEDx speaker and mental wellbeing ...
Sustainable Interior Design
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you got a copy of the Journal? You can purchase a copy directly from us at the journalofbiophilicdesign.com or Amazon. If you like our podcast an...
Natural Dimensions - Transforming Schools with Biophilic Design
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is strong evidence that strong green environments can improve educational outcomes as well as improving focus and concentration restoration leve...
Tall Timber Buildings - are they the Future of our Urban Landscape?
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Waugh is an architect with a passion for using sustainable materials in construction projects. His practice, Waugh Thistleton Architects,...
NEW proof that Biophilic Design increases the Value (£) of the Workplace!
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know for every £1 you spend on even simple Biophilic Design enhancements, you could get £2.70 back? So reveals the new research conducted by...
Creating Eden
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries and this fact is yet another reason we need more Biophilic Design included into urban planning, ar...
Rebalance Earth - Enabling a world worth living in. Creating a Nature Positive Economy
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Gardner is CEO and Co-Founder of Rebalance Earth. With over 20 years of experience in the financial industry, he has a unique expertise in sust...
BIID Interior Design Award Winners - From Chapel Barn to Riverside
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) is the only professional institute for interior designers in the UK. Our growing membership repre...
Right Light, Right Place, Right Time
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Tonkin is the Dark Sky Advisor to Cranborne Chase National Landscape, in Wiltshire. Cranborne Chase is a designate Area of Outstanding Nat...
A task force for nature – where sustainability matters
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Taylor leads the biodiversity side of Greengage, a multidisciplinary environmental consultancy who cover everything from energy and carbon asse...
“Bloom” - When Workspace Design meets Biophilia
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Marco Gastoldi, interior designer and Associate at Gensler, who in collaboration with some amazing partners have created the theme of th...
Der Verwondering - Biophilic Primary School - Stephen Kellert Biophilic Design Award Winner
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we design schools so not only children are inspired, teachers want to come to work, places are healthy, the building sustainable, the landscape...
Can the NHS embrace Biophilic Design?
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Leighton Phillips Director of Research, Innovation and University Partnerships for the NHS Wales, Honorary Professor Aberystwyth University, and di...
The Walls are Alive! The Beauty of Greening our Cities - inside and out.
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From designing a detailed picture of the New York Skyline in moss to how we need to design with biophilia for helping mitigate climate change this gre...
The Wave - Connecting us to our Blue Mind
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tying in with Issue 6, our Blue Mind edition of The Journal of Biophilic Design we speak with Nick Hounsfield, Founder and Chief Visionary Offic...
Skogluft – Forest Air. Reconnecting people to nature
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Building on an earlier conversation we had in 2020 with a co-founder of Skogluft, we speak today with Morten Kvam, CEO of Skogluft. Not only does it s...
Learn how to Lead Change - Essential Tools for Biophilic Designers
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Change is about people and when it comes to people, there is no formula and there is no one way, this is challenging and hard. For designers, architec...
Building with Nature
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you an agent for change? What is the barrier to designing better? Sometimes it is the apparent complexity of legislation governing ecology, planni...
Sensory Reactivity
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we design spaces, we need to consider how beautiful a place looks, how useful it is, is it fit for function and so on. We should also consider ho...
Plants to the Rescue! #PlantsatWorkWeek2023 LIVE in Oxford!
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Plants to the Rescue #PlantsatWorkWeek2023 An ambulance makes an appearance at the Oxford Business Park. Everyone is keen to know who’s in need of m...
Research proves that Biophilic Design increases Workplace value
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new pioneering research study proves that there is definitely a business case for introducing Biophilic Design into a Workplace. The findings of thi...
Making a Difference, One Roof at a Time
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you got a copy of our Cities issue of The Journal of Biophilic Design (you can purchase a copy directly from us at the journalofbiophilicde...
Town Planners as Doctors for Mother Earth – Garden Cities for the 21st Century
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It seems that in the 21st century we have even more challenges, from tackling climate change and biodiversity decline to an ageing population. Dr Wei ...
Reconnecting with nature will save our society
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainability matters, it is a matter of survival. For Carlo Battisti, President at Living Future Europe this is essential. We cannot design or build...
Greening the Streets of Nairobi
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nature is home. Nature is where you can think, rejuvenate, it constantly gives to you. There is nothing man made that can replace the benefits of natu...
The River of Life – Orientate Earth, Built Environment and Sustainable Workplace
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harvesting the energy of our people, is a key message in this great podcast with Jaime Blakeley-Glover, founder of Orientate.earth and a collaborator ...
How to design to incite a feeling? Workplace Design 101
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you design to incite a feeling? We spend five days of our week in the workplace, and it impacts our psychology massively. When we walk into a s...
Nature-Inspired Workplace Design
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a big question, how do we inspire more people to come back into the workplace? For Steve Brewer, founding partner of the design agency, B...
Lloyds Bank, Sustainability and Greening Workplaces
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Paula Rowntree, Head of Workplace Design for LLOYDS BANKING GROUP, the office very much plays an important role in the workplace. For her it is th...
New Natural History GCSE – so we are not the Last Page of the Book of Earth
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With such a depletion of wildlife in the UK alone, with so many schools, cities, towns, and housing estates being built so far removed from our natura...
Healing yourself at Home with Biophilic Design
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tying in with the second issue of our magazine, our theme for this podcast is HOME. We speak with Award-winning Interior Designer Nuria Muñoz wh...
Nature on Film - From David Attenborough and the BBC to Termite Mounds!
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Biophilia is more than plants, light and air, it’s also about surrounding ourselves with living beings and our living natural world. If we think abo...
Feeling Alive
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As many of our listeners know, the concept of Biophilic Design brings our contact with nature closer into our lives in the built environment, whether ...
Designing Climate Change Resilience
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dom Higgins, head of Health and Education for the Wildlife Trusts. We speak about Nature connectedness, biodiversity, purpose, people, place, Cone Sna...
Designing the Way Nature Would
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Merging nature and design together, Outsidein, as their name suggests, does exactly that, they bring the outside in. They were Platinum winners in thi...
The Fluid Beauty of Light - Lighting the Workplace
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are diurnal species, we were born under natural light, we have an ingrained ability to imagine and contextualise natural light in our heads. A Biop...
Wood - Our Connection to the Forest through Biophilic Design
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We often advocate that we should be incorporating wood, views of trees, wood grain, wood textures and wood veneers into our built environment as part ...
Are you sitting comfortably? ...probably not...!
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do you think of when people say "ergonomics"? You, like many others, may think 'comfortable chairs and sit-stand desks', but as Guy Osmond, MD of...
A Woodland Habitat in the City?
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we encourage more local greening? Where does Biophilic Design fit in the climate change picture? What can we learn from Paris and its free and...
Plants @ Work…and Home… and in every room
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As National Plants at Work week comes to a close, we celebrate all things plants with this great interview with ambassador and passionate interior and...
Sustainable Habitats for Sustainable Habits?
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you climb up a tree, don’t we see life from a different perspective? We realise we part of something bigger than ourselves, we see an overview ...
Biophilic Design and Net Zero targets in the Workplace
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So how do we design workplaces and maybe more importantly maintain our workspaces and offices during the course of the building’s life span and use ...
Pioneer Nature Method in Architecture
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we work with the landscape more as architects and designers to not only create beautiful spaces but ones that also have a positive impact on o...
Chris Packham - Why we need to build with Nature in Mind
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With our countryside fast vanishing under concrete, there is much we can do to mitigate the loss by placing the natural world at the heart of developm...
Rooted in Nature - how Biophilic Design helps us flourish
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can we make the world a better place by design? Nicole Craanen definitely thinks so (and so do we). Nicole is founder of Rooted in Nature and believes...
Biophilic Design Awards
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Elliott Bennett, editor of i-Plants Magazine and founder of The Biophilic Design Awards, Biophilic Design gives us an holistic approach to bringin...
What can we learn from Ancient Roman balneology?
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Biophilic Design we speak about the importance of how the environment we are in affects our senses. This sensorial approach is a key feature of a h...
Planted Country - Save our Soil
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners to our podcast will likely really love this. There’s a great free event taking place on the first bank holiday here in the UK, from April ...
My Green Pod - How to have a Biophilic Lifestyle
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My Green Pod started off as an ethical lifestyle publication circulated with National Geographic Green in 2009, and now it's distributed to over 77 mi...
The Asklepeion - Healing and “Biophilic Design” in the Ancient World
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that the principles of “Biophilic Design” have been around for a long time? We might not have called it that, but architects were usi...
Biophilic Cities - how Architectural Technologists can use Biophilic Design to support people and planet
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all have a choice how we can design. How can we make things better? How can architects and town planners design differently? When we are faced with...