Regenerative and Biophilic Design with Amanda Sturgeon
Tune in for an insightful and inspirational talk with Amanda Sturgeon. Amanda is a regenerative and biophilic design expert, award-winning architect, published author, and TED speaker. She was the CEO of the International Living Future Institute before going on to be the Regenerative Design Lead in the Asia Pacific region for Mott MacDonald.
Amanda’s work seeks to highlight that people and nature are one. She seeks to bring nature and regenerative principals into the built environment. This leads to greater health, happiness, productivity for the people that inhabit these spaces. Furthermore, she uses placemaking to give reverence to the history and future of a location.
SHOW NOTES
Amanda’s definition of biophilic design centers around people and nature being one natural system.
Place based solutions are at the heart of her design approach.
Bringing in nature into the built environment helps boost health, wellness, and productivity. It is also a way to bring in energy efficiency and low carbon design.
Amanda talks about the evolution of The Living Future Institute over the 10 years she was with the organization
The next evolution of her career she is determined to take regenerative design and scale it into large-scale projects to help it become more mainstream
Creating Biophilic Buildings is the book written by Amanda Sturgeon
