Roundtable discussion with critical friends: The role of design in nature engagement
Do design and designers have a role to play in Nature based Solutions for wellbeing, and if so, what might that role look like?
The value that design could bring to community led NbS is a key area of exploration in the Nature’s Way project. Our early thinking had led us to hypothesise that approaches from the disciplines of service design and landscape architecture (in particular human centred and place based approaches respectively) have the potential to address the challenges community NbS projects may face. Through actively doing and reflecting on the design of the pilots and platform while working with local communities, frontline providers and decision makers, we are attempting to find whether this is the case and in what way.