Re-Connecting with Nature will Save our Society. The new publication from the Biophilic Society Locus Group is out 🌿🏡
Our relationship with nature changed during the pandemic lockdown. Through our one-hour allowed outdoors, we fell in love with nature again, and biophilia our love of nature was rekindled.
As we returned to work, we took plants into the office, we saw expressions such as ‘Homemaking at Work’, induction and onboarding now includes advice on local quiet green spaces for lunch or contemplation. We are taking work and meetings out of the office.
This playbook captures our new relationship and love with nature, a kinship that will manifest in better biophilic designs. It explores a relationship with core regenerative design as all biophilic designs must enable ecological and social systems to thrive. We look beyond patterns and attributes, behind the shop window of current trends in biophilic design, to something more meaningful.
Biophilia undoubtedly manifests itself differently for each of us as individuals, but it is that biophilic-self that informs our projects and enables biophilic or nature-positive organisations. Through the three sections of seeding, growing, and pollinating, the playbook prompts questions for reflection as individuals projects and organisations.
As we move from the Anthropocene into the Symbiocene, we are only starting to regain the knowledge of how interdependent we are with nature, and it is from this rediscovery, this exciting exploration that buildings in harmony with nature will emerge.
This playbook is therefore for those who are looking for a deeper connection and sensing of the place we, our projects and our organisations have within nature and ecological systems and how that can better manifest in the work that we all do,for a future thriving society.
“We know in our hearts and souls that a healthy connection with nature isn’t a luxury – it is the foundation for our personal wellbeing, the catalyst for our achievements, the strength of our organisations and the key to a thriving ecological future”. –Martin Brown, Living Future Europe, Vice President
Download your free copy of the Biophilia Playbook. Re-Connecting with Nature will Save our Society at this link
