Regenerative and Biophilic Design with Amanda Sturgeon

Jun 28

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

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Neal Collins (he/him)

Neal is the co-founder of Latitude, a regenerative-focused real estate company that works with change agents across North America. His work has brought him around the globe across three-continents as a business leader, consultant, and project manager. He has a dynamic background that combines sustainability with investment analysis and marketing and communications. He is the host of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, and is a public speaker, author, and father. He holds a Bachelors in Agriculture Economics, a Masters in Sustainable Development, and is Living Future Accredited.