In 2009 I was challenged by Dr. John Todd, who was my graduate advisor at the University of Vermont, to consider how to prevent ecological and biophilic attributes from being removed from projects—like wiping green icing off of a cupcake.
The answer is to embed nature and natural systems and processes into the foundation and soul of a project, making biophilia, ecology, health and wellbeing for people and planet its very essence—its intent. I see us, as a humanity, moving towards a new design ecology, one that embraces complex system thinking, creative problem solving, ecology and biophilia while promoting the understanding of our interconnectedness to a world much greater than ourselves.
