Welcome to the twelfth edition of The Journal of Biophilic Design.

As we come to celebrate the beginning of our third year for the Journal itself, and fifth year for the podcast series, the first Biophilic Design Conference, and the start of a whole series of events running throughout 2025, including a second conference and further collaborations with event partners across the globe, I wanted to say thank you.

Thank you for being a part of the whole journey, for listening, sharing your expertise and also if you are reading the Journal, then you care about people and planet. So, thank you. If we design with nature in mind, we create beautiful habitats for people to flourish in. This issue looks at how retail is transformed by this nature connection as well.

🎄 Issue 12 - Retail edition of the Journal of Biophilic Design is jam packed full of inspiring ideas for creating shops, retail spaces, shopping centres, and boutique places that are beautifully biophilic while also supporting trade and enhanced places to be. Read articles from Oliver Heath, Bill Browning, BIID, Space Invader, Mass Timber Building, Stephen Choi, Lyn Falk, Dr Sally Augustin, Mathew Page, Andrea Harman, Ian Drummond, Maria Fenn, and more! Over 170 pages of visuals, case studies, ideas, discussion, research and more!