Last year, colleagues from Highgate Cemetery joined the Healthy Parks and Green Space Network I jointly run with Gemma Moore and Liza Griffin from UCL’s Bartlett Faculty. The Cemetery team also generously hosted our first in-person meeting, in one of their chapels. We organised a “green walk” to this from Archway station to help participants
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
The event and its background described below took place in February 2019. A brief write-up was published here by the Landscape, Gardens and Health Network. The 5 Ways to Wellbeing are widely recognised as a powerful guide to feeling good and functioning well in our everyday lives. They are social as well as individual. But