COMPASSIONATE DESIGN: Featured by Monocle’s The Urbanist podcast

“There is so much opportunity being missed, to tackle really important societal issues - whether that’s mental health, or loneliness, social fragmentation or health inequalities. These are very difficult challenges that can be supported by the built environment. That’s something that architecture, design and planning can do.”

NATASHA REID, MATTER SPACE SOUL

Natasha Reid visited the Monocle studio to speak with with host and Editor in Chief   Andrew Tuck about what MATTER SPACE SOUL has been up to implementing human-centric design and neuroarchitecture in practice.

Monocle's The Urbanist podcast is considered an authoritative guide to creating better cities, with an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects.

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“How do we Design Places in our Cities that are Compassionate?”

The podcast covered:

How does Matter Space Soul design for health and social wellbeing

Joining architecture with human sciences to make places that better respond to people’s needs - from designing for physical and mental health, to social connection, tackling loneliness and inclusivity.

Value and ROI for progressive developers

How forward-thinking clients have been commissioning human-centric design specialisms to sit alongside architects, as it becomes more recognised that a better user experience aligns with commercial and business outcomes.  

Oxford Street mixed use scheme & Biophilic Design

How Compassionate Design and Neuroarchitecture applies to a major landmark development in Central London, including retail, office and a cultural hub. Find out more about our specialist work and team for this scheme here

Compassionate Places case studies 

A paper sharing examples of MATTER SPACE SOUL's Compassionate Design and Neuroarchitecture in practice – from office space, to homes and housing, to co-living, hotels, community spaces and new design quality standards for urban planning for a London Borough.

New Towns & Human-Centric Design Standards 

How Compassionate Design and innovative Place Quality standards can scale up to national policy on urban planning,  government aims, public health and ensuring quality of life - not only quantity of homes

Smart Cities - the next evolution

How technology, data, and cutting-edge neuroscience are converging to make more emotionally-intelligent and human cities.

Listen to the podcast above (starts at 13.23 – ends 25.10)