Natasha joined the Creative Health podcast, to discuss why we need new approaches to put human wellbeing at the heart of design.
"In our conversation we unpick why the design of the built environment – buildings and public spaces – matters to people’s health and wellbeing and how it contributes to the wider social determinants of health and keeping people well. She explains biophilic and human centred design, and also why artists are important in designing public spaces and engaging communities in the process"
LAURA BAILEY, CREATIVE HEALTH PODCAST
Natasha shares her specialism in embedding health, social wellbeing and inclusivity into the design of places, by focusing on the lived experience of places. The conversation covers a wide range of topics; from the fundementals of how places affect us; housing and health inequalities; social impact through codesign; and what is means to really shape places according to the impacts on people's lives.
We talk about designing according to how places make people feel, loneliness and nuturing connectedness, safety for women and girls, shaping places to the needs of older people and designing spaces for different generations to come together. How creating places with care can bring pride and dignity.
Developing new ways to translate work from different types of specialisms, like pyschology and neuroscience, to create new types of multidiscplinary teams.
The big question remains of what can be done to shift the priority from commercial drivers as the only measures of success to putting quality of life at the top? How can we enable a cultural shift towards different priorities?
And highlighting the significant value of makeing deeply people-focused places, places people want to be in, spend time and and come back to, there are clear commercial and socio-economic benefits