sense of place

June 19, 2025

Co-authored with Jane Faulkner, North London NHS Foundation Trust Calm, relaxed and peaceful. Curious, inspired and thoughtful. Reflective, thankful and sad. These were feelings highlighted on The Emotions Wheel by participants in a recent “walkshop” at Highgate Cemetery,  designed and delivered with Jane Faulkner, Lived Experience Workforce Lead at the North London NHS Foundation Trust.

October 31, 2019

I’ve written before about how London’s public spaces are alive with water features, especially welcome in the periods of extreme heat which are just one symptom of our changing climate. Fountains and lakes have long characterised our parks and, of course, we are a city whose identity is strongly tied to a river. Greenspace Information for

May 7, 2019

Last week, I was privileged to be on the closing panel of the Improving wellbeing through urban nature (IWUN) ‘research  into practice’ event, convened by Sheffield’s renowned Landscape Architecture Department.  We are not short of evidence that access to nature is good for our health, but IWUN offers a much needed set of principles for