Conference Programme Sessions - Join us at the conference to learn and share best practice, cutting edge new research and inspire each other across disciplines and sectors. Together we can design a better world to live in. For people, for planet and for prosperity in every sense of the word...
As well as Keynotes, the rhythm of the conference will be a mix of mini TED type talk followed by panel discussion, or “in conversation” style debates, with ample opportunity to share your opinions with each other and ask questions.
[we are finalising the order of the programme, but these speakers and sessions are confirmed, check back regularly or better subscribe for updates]
Breakfast reception in the Garden Room and Barbican Conservatory, enjoy soundscaping by Moodsonic and Projections by Virtual Nature Walls. Meet each other, share business contact details, chat to the suppliers and innovators on show in the exhibition area.
Opening Session
We move into the Frobisher Hall where the sessions will be live streamed across the Globe.
Keynote - Oliver Heath
Oliver Heath is founder and director of Oliver Heath Design, who are recognised thought leaders in health & wellbeing in the built environment. They are researchers, designers, and advocates for the creation of healthy flourishing spaces in the built environment, benefiting both people and planet. Having spent 15 years working for TV channels such as BBC, ITV and Channel 4, published 4 books, 8 white papers, online courses and presenting over 500 RIBA certified CPDs on Biophilic Design, Oliver has vast experience in knowledge creation and presentation.
[photo credit Richard Hanson]
Healthcare Sessions
Presentations from Mathew Page, Chief operating Officer Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust on history of asylums/healthcare buildings, and the new one they are creating centred arond nature in Bristol
We will be joined by other health practitioners advocating Biophilic Design.
Case Study - Dept of Education
Crawford Wright – Head of Architecture and Design: Schools and Colleges (Overview and DfE’s approach to biophilia) Ian Naylor – Head of Technical Development (Lead Design Advisor for St. Mary’s and Merstham Park) Duncan Craig – Technical Policy Lead (Author of DfE’s Biophilic Design Brief for St Mary’s) Amanda Greaves – Headteacher at St Mary’s
Designers Talk - school design
Presentations by Clare Bowman, RCZM Architects and Nicholas Atherton, Merstham School.
Learn from two vital perspectives: Landscape Architect and Interior Designer
Break - Networking in the Garden Room and Conservatory. Meet up, network with each other and speakers, plus make the most of the opportunity to learn about innovations from our exhibitors.
Salutogenic Workplaces
Paige Hodsman in conversation with Dr Harriet Shortt, presenting and discussing how Comfort in the Workplace and Environmental Responsibility go hand in hand.
This session is chaired by Mark Eltringham, editor of Workplace Insight.
Future Biophilic Workplaces
Presentations by Andy Lake and Nigel Oseland. Followed by discussion. Biophilic Design is much more than indoor planting and landscaping, it includes aspects of the natural world such as natural ventilation, natural light and natural soundscapes. Evolutionary psychology has helped us understand our preferred indoor conditions, directly inferred fro our past living and surviving in natural environments.
What does the future office look like?
The Financial Benefits of Biophilic Design
Dr Sally Augustin shares with us, not only does Biophilic Design have a positive impact on our physical and mental health, but it also gives us an impressive economic uplift too.
Dr Augustin will share and distil research and data which proves just how beneficial Biophilic Design is on business’ bottom line, and how it helps reduce costs on staff recruitment, energy use and much more.
Sensory Design
Presentations by Jean Hewitt, Buro Happold, Steve Edge of Salvedge Design and Xander Cadish on Light
BIID Panel - Biophilic Design and Wellbeing
A curated panel of BIID practitioners working with Biophilic Design.
Chair: Matt Freeman
Panel: Preet Anand (Mood Interiors), Chloe Bullock (Materialise Interiors) and Rajashri Chakraborty (Interior Design Studio)
LUNCH and NETWORKING - in the Garden Room and Conservatory. The Networking continues over a buffet lunch. Why not also chose to participate in a Forest Bathing experience led by Amanda Bond through the Barbican Conservatory.
Don’t forget to collect your FREE BOOK BONUS - the new "Science Informed Guide to Biophilic Design” written specifically for the conference by our very own environmental/design psychologist Dr Sally Augustin.
Special recorded message from Jojo Mehta
Stop Ecocide International
Future Proofing Cities with Biophilic Design
Presentations from Robert Delius, Stride Treglown, Robert Gardner Rebalance Earth and Ben Channon
Policy and Regenerative Design - Chatham House
How can policy unlock the potential of regenerative design. Chatham House will be presenting results of research which explored the intersection of policy and regenerative design.
Biophilic Design and Community Spaces
Presentations by David Mooney, CEO of London Wildlife Trust, Kenton Rogers, Treeconomics and Simon Needle Birmingham City Council.
Break - Networking in the Garden Room and Conservatory. Meet up, network with each other and speakers, plus make the most of the opportunity to learn about innovations from our exhibitors.
The Biophilic Village Swansea
Professor Geoffrey Proffitt will present how “The Biophilic Living” development will clearly be an inspirational building for the people who will live and work there. The building is driven through with cutting-edge biological, design, and engineering innovations. It will be a living, working example of great design, innovation and existing technology combining to support and nurture human health and wellbeing.
The Biophilic Living plan and the ethos that underpins its design and development is a focus for change, the start of a new sustainable, Biophilic urban regeneration of Swansea.
If we are to fully respond to increasing global challenges, urban development and redevelopment will have to take a lead.
The project will contribute to local and global goals to address the climate change emergency, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The Wood Sessions
Presentations by Andrew Waugh, Waugh Thistle Architects discussing the case study Black and White Building and David Fell, Director, Research and Analysis Forestry Innovation Investment, Vancouver, Canada
This session will be chaired by Eleanor Young, Editor RIBA Journal.
The Architecture of Life
Robert Bedner, Architectural Technologist, will be celebrating Kellert’s Biophilic effect on people and planet, sharing examples of how Biophilic Design is incorporated into community buildings for health, happiness and regeneration of life and living systems.
Kinship and Biophilic Design
Connecting us and nature - Martin Brown, Sustainability Provocateur & Consultant. Author of ‘FutuREstorative’ (RIBA), co-editor of ‘Sustainability, restorative to regenerative’ and ‘RESTORD 2030’ (#CostRestore). VP at Living Future Europe, founder of Zoom Regenerative, a global conscious collective that reciprocates and invigorates, nurtures, and heals, cross-pollinating regenerative practices for a healthy thriving future.
Final Words and the Magic Brush of Biophilia
Adding a Sparkle Layer Professor Derek Clements Croome
If you could paint the World with a Magic Brush of Biophilia, what would it look like? Dr Vanessa Champion
Evening in person Networking Party
As the lights go down, we move into the Garden Room and conservatory for an unforgettable evening of music and networking, surrounded by the gorgeous interior landscaping of the Conservatory.
Plus this is your final chance to explore the Garden Room, where we are inviting just 12 carefully curated exhibitors at the show. From plants and materials to furniture and innovative Biophilic Design solutions, you will be inspired by the passions of our exhibitors. We encourage you to network and build your materials library to lay the foundations of your next new business collaboration.
Special Suprise Guests and Music Premiere
From 6.30pm until 10pm - Conference attendees will be joined by a gathering of leaders, MPs, Lords and stakeholders for an evening celebration, drinks, canapes, music and a guest celebrity. Continue to network, ask questions, share ideas, speak with our innovative exhibitors, eat, drink and celebrate life and better design!
Plus there will be the world Premiere of “The Green Book: The Biophilic Suite” composed and performed by acclaimed musician Javier Rodriguez, commissioned by us and inspired by the Barbican.