Key highlights at the Planted flagship launch event staged during London Design Festival from September 23-26 was a six-part Planted Unearthed talk series hosted by the fair’s biophilic design ambassador Oliver Heath and co-founder Sam Peters.
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| One of the speakers at Planted. Backdrop shows its wildflower meadow tv studio installation. |
The talks, which took place at King’s Cross Granary Square were headlined on “delivering greener cities in a post-pandemic world.”
The first talk, What is biophilic design?, is hosted by Oliver Heath, and with guest panelists Dr Alia Fadel (Leeds Becket University), Roddy Langmuir (Cullinan Studio) and Vanessa Champion (Journal of Biophilic Design).
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| Planted speaker Sam McCarthy on Biophilic Design. |
In association with Thread Films, other topics covered included Why Rewild?, and Toxic Cities that explored themes around designing cleaner, greener, healthier urban spaces built with nature in mind.
Planted brought together some of the leading thinkers in design, sustainability, food production, architecture and nature.
The list of panelists included the National Trust’s Patrick Begg, as well as Julia Davies of We have the Power Julia Davies and Mark Shayler of Ape.
Here’s the full schedule:
10 Oct 2021 What is Biophilic design?
17 Oct 2021 Why Rewild?
24 Oct 2021 Toxic Cities
31 Oct 2021 Can Food Save the World?
07 Nov 2021 The Age of Waste
14 Nov 2021 Making Material Matter
Photos by Lucia Carpio© for MyFashionConnectGlobal.
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