Nature & Emotion - Healthy City Design International Congress

Nature and Emotion by Natasha Reid was selected as a research poster for the Healthy City Design International Congress in 2022 at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

"Tackling the urgent challenges of individual, social and planetary health takes working across many boundaries to find new solutions."

The Nature and Emotion concept explores how the arts can play a key role in cross-sector innovation and community empowerment in addressing complex and often multifaceted issues. How new cultural understandings can create and shape collective shifts in mindset. Ones which address the health of both people and planet together. After all, we are all part of nature.

The project is at the intersection of placemaking, design, art and activism – looking to seed change in non-conventional ways. Drawing together nature, community and emotional understandings of place in new, unexpected ways.

Can new natural, emotional and social infrastructures holistically to address multiple, intersectional challenges?

How can we create new narratives around nature, to support more-than-human aims?

How can a better understanding of emotion and empathy help us in moving towards new approaches for places?