大象传媒

What do we ask for, and what do we receive from the built environment?

Engineer Roma Agrawal explores how the visions and dreams of architects and designers are experienced, co-created and changed by the people who live in their buildings.

In this episode, Roma considers our need to partner with nature in architecture, delving back into Ian McHarg鈥檚 landscape architecture manifesto Design with Nature. McHarg was a 70s Scottish architect who developed a method to study the landscape before building. Professor Richard J Weller (co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center) examines what McHarg's work meant at the time and what it means now.

We visit the NHS Forth Valley Royal Hospital and Larbert Woods in Larbert, a project which won the 2020 Building with Nature award. One of the landscape architects, Sheena Rayburn, explains the unusual ways in which the NHS partnered with specialists in the landscape, while oncology nurse Linnet McGeever explains how the hospital and woods have changed the experience for patients and workers.

Palawa Architect Sarah Lynn Rees explores indigenous perspectives on partnering with nature in architecture, and London based architect Micheal Pawlyn reveals his nature-inspired architectural solutions.

Presenter: Roma Agrawal
Producer: Sandra Jean-Pierre
Executive Producer: Katherine Godfrey
Researcher: Nadia Mehdi
Music and sound design by Phil Smith
Mix by Graham Puddifoot
A Novel production for 大象传媒 Radio 4