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A biophilic year [ Archive]

A Biophilic Year [Archive]


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365 essays on the essence and practice of biophilic design.

A Biophilic Year Archive extends the physical book into digital pages – one essay for each of the 365 aphorisms. Structured across the same four chapters as the book, the archive explores connections from biophilic thinking to interior design, architecture, urban planning, sustainability, and the wider relationship between people and the natural world.

Where the aphorisms are immediate, the essays are patient, each one expanding on a concise thought. Intended to be read gradually, revisited over time, and kept as a reference for thought, aphorisms and essays articulate a perspective on a more nourishing relationship between people, nature, and design.


Four chapters

Connection: on people and nature

Exploring the nuanced relationship between people and nature in its intriguing complexity.

Perspective: the role of designed spaces

Diving into designed spaces, their impact on wellbeing, as well as their role in restoring a deep and balanced relationship with the natural world.

Experience: the practice of biophilic design

Unveiling biophilic design insights that translate the essence of biophilic thinking into design solutions.

Integration: biophilic cities and the future

Venturing into urban environments to discover the potential of biophilic thinking and design in the development of better cities for people and nature.

A Biophilic Year's chapters overview.
A stack of pebbles in balance.

An online archive

Written as extended reflections, the essays move between conceptual and practical. Either read in sequence or following a spontaneous, meandering order, they trace ideas and lines of thought that accumulate and deepen.

The essays’ titles are open to browse: A Biophilic Year Archive

Preview of A Biophilic Year Archive pages

A book-object

A Biophilic Year doesn’t begin online.

The journey starts in the physical book with 365 aphorisms, printed on fine paper in a signed, hand-finished volume. Each aphorism is the seed from which an essay grows, each essay points back to the aphorism that initiated the thought. The two compose a single publication, experienced across two forms.

Cotton cover of A Biophilic Year and a wild grass strand.
One of A Biophilic Year's aphorisms: "Who decided that urban design standards would exclude nature?" and illustrated bookmark.

Audience

A Biophilic Year can be an intriguing introduction to the topic of biophilic design as well as an inspiring tool for those who are already familiar with the subject.

For practitioners, scholars, creatives, and enthusiasts in the fields of interior design, architecture, landscape design, environmental studies, and urban planning as well as for all the minds fascinated by the intersection of nature, humanity, art, and design.

Wild grass strands and a textured lamp.
Big shell in the sun.

Specifications

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Behind the scenes

Each of the archive’s pages opens with a photograph taken in the studio: a ladybug resting on wild grass strands, a stone caressed by sunlight, a plant casting intricate shadows… An ode to the art of noticing, these details and instants carry the same sensibility that animates the essays, expressed through visuals rather than words.

Written entirely by the author (not AI), A Biophilic Year’s aphorisms and essays capture perspectives, thoughts, and questions that shape the studio’s work.