In Episode 10.1, biophilia expert Bill Browning discusses patterns of biophilic design and how you can implement this practice into your design process.
PART 1
Bill Browning from Terrapin Bright Green discusses the importance of biophilic design in creating workspaces that enhance human connection with nature, improve employee well-being, and boost productivity through various natural elements and spatial experiences.
Watch Time: 16 minutes
Transcript
What we’re seeing is more companies kind of committing to and deepening the biophilic experiences partially as a way to create more interesting places to come back to work. Do you want to just come back to the normal workstation? I don’t think so.
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3 Key Takeaways
There are 15 different experiences of nature (with supporting scientific evidence of positive health impacts) that can be translated into experiences of the built environment. These experiences can be characterized into a pattern language for biophilic design.
Science tells us that each pattern supports different outcomes. A pattern might support stress reduction, enhance cognitive performance, improve mood, or stimulate prosocial behavior. Some patterns support a single outcome, while others support multiple outcomes.
A good approach to biophilic design is to create a narrative about the outcomes that you would like to support for the users of your space, and then determine which biophilic patterns best match those needs.
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Meet Bill Browning:
Bill Browning, BED Colorado University, MSRED MIT, Hon. AIA, LEED AP, is the Managing Partner at Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental strategies research and consulting firm. His clients include Disney, New Songdo City, Lucasfilm, Google, Marriott, Bank of America, Salesforce, the Inn of the Anasazi, the White House, and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Village. Bill was a founding member of the USGBC Board of Directors. He began research in human productivity and green buildings in the 1990s at Rocky Mountain Institute and is co-author of Greening the Building and the Bottom Line (1994), The Economics of Biophilia (2012, and 2023), 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design (2104), Human Spaces 2.0 Biophilic Design in Hospitality (2017), and Nature Inside (2020). His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle Popular Science, and in segments by NPR, Reuters, CNN, and PBS.
Episode 10.1 Credits:
Created By Bob Fox
Produced By Work Design Studios
Directed By Bob Fox
Edited By Katie Sargent & Bob Fox
Special thanks to Michelle Weiss
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