BIOPHILIC DESIGN FOR SPACE OF LEARNING& HEALING

Biophilic design emerged from the theory of biophilia, a Greek word meaning ‘love of life’. It sees humans as a part of nature and considers their involvement with nature in psychological, emotional and spiritual manners. It works to reduce stress and enhance performance, creativity and wellbeing, and define guidelines, strategies and attributes to understand opportunities for relating humanity to nature reflecting the ecological design process. Space of Biophilic quality enables embodied awareness in a state of interbeingness that allows sense of memory, reflection, belonging emerges. The quality of design can only been appreciated and benefited those space makers who acknowledge the same level of consciousness and attitude of “love of life”. heARTechlab faculty and fellowship program supports space holders globally to continuously practice and embody the principle and protocol to sync the web of spaces empowered by heARTech design principles and interactive protocol.