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Announcing Our Building with Nature Consultancy

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Building with Nature Consultancy service; this means that in addition to our existing consultancy service…

Five design movements that will move the dial in 2024

What are we excited about right now? And what do we think is coming next? As a team we’ve been pleased to see wellbeing, nature and sustainability remain…

A Fresh Perspective: An Interview With Design Student Amelie

With attitudes towards our planet and health shifting over the past decade, largely due to the impact of climate change and the pandemic, we've been curious:…

'Chelsea Weed Show' or a Reflection of our Changing Relationship with Nature?

Designing for Restorative Sleep

Five hours’ sleep is the tipping point for bad health, according to a recent study spanning 22-years by PLoS Medicine.  Once we’ve rolled our clocks…

How the Repair Movement is Driving Positive Change

The Rise of the Repair Cafe

Tips for Activating Your Home Garden

Ever looked out to your garden and realised, suddenly, that you’ve not set foot in it for weeks? You’re not alone! It’s an easy trap to fall into; treating…

'Healthy Home' Pop-Up, Westfield, London

Are Green Spaces Accessible For Everyone?

We are forever celebrating nature’s incredible powers to benefit our mental and physical health. Not only can connecting with the natural world make us…

Materials Blog Series: Aesthetics

As a designer I’m all too aware that we often dive into projects thinking about the large visual features – how will the style of the spaces be defined,…

Smart Home Blog Series: Connectivity

It’s struck me that in the past, the notion of the “smart home” is one that is brimming with the latest technology, perhaps in a way that fulfils the…

The Home of the Future: A Designer's Perspective

Today, as we face the double challenge of a global pandemic and the climate crisis, the health and wellbeing of both people and planet is foremost in…

Winter Wellbeing: Oliver Heath's Tips to Boost Health & Wellbeing During Winter

As we entered a second lockdown in the UK, we started to notice the toll working from home is having on the population’s mental health and wellbeing.…

How To Use Biophilic Design For Social Distancing

During the COVID-19 pandemic, our communities were put under restrictions including how we access the outside world and nature. For many the only chance…

How to Create a Strategy for Biophilic Design

Now we are seeing a gradual lift and return to some normal practices post COVID-19 lockdown, but how are you going to use what you have learnt to implement…

Tips for Creating a Healthy Work from Home Space

As the current situation with COVID-19 develops in the UK and while our outside use is restricted, we want to bring some quick and easy tips to help improve…

Q&A with Tom Raffield: Steam (bent) on Bringing Nature Indoors

Oliver was pleased to meet ground-breaking designer Tom Raffield at a recent event, where they got talking and quickly realised that both their company…

The Culture of Outdoors Indoors

Article written by guest author: Naomi Stone Employee Engagement Manager, St Monica Trust Business Psychologist, MBPsS, MSc, BSc (Hons), Assoc CIPD

Happiness in the Workplace

Firstly, what is happiness? Happiness is often defined in the field of psychology as experiencing positive emotions, such as pride, joy, and interest,…

Accessing Biophilic Design Consultancy

Over the last year at Oliver Heath Design, we have worked on a range of projects in scale from a single room in Tokyo to a large 6 floor commercial building…

Boosting Your Brainwaves

Hans Berger discovered the first brain waves using electrodes to measure the electronic pulses in the brain. ‘Brain waves’ are produced by electrical…

Natural Rhythms: Benefit of Non Rhythmic Sensory Stimuli

Most of us spend the predominant part of our lives indoors. These spaces where we live, study, work and relax are often lacking in the natural sensory…

A Greener Community!

Guerrilla gardening is good fun for everyone. It’s an activity that involves transforming hidden, unloved and uninspiring spaces into pockets of green…

Greenwood Theatre Park by Zandra Rhodes

Parklets have recently been popping up within dense cities like London, New York and San Francisco. The everyday stresses and strains we get from living…

Biophilic Retail Spaces

Retail environments play a central role in our everyday lives – we all need those essentials like food and clothing. A recent House of Commons report…

A Focus on Nature: Attention Restoration Theory

When we spend a long period of time on a task without taking a break, we inevitably start to feel our attention span waning. Within modern working environments,…

Biophilia in Healthcare Settings

Clinical environments can be unsettling for many, however research has demonstrated that these negative experiences can be relieved when we engage with…

Learning From Nature: Biophilic Design in Education Spaces

Our built environment features a huge range of educational buildings, of all different scales and capacities: from small nurseries through to vast schools…