Biophilic Design: Supporting People and Planet | Oliver Heath | TEDxUCL

Oliver talks about the importance of incorporating nature into our lives, revealing its many well-researched benefits and how biophilic design can help us connect ourselves to this planet and really begin to care about what happens to it. Oliver Heath is an architectural and interior designer whose eponymously named sustainable design practice focuses on health and wellbeing in the built environment with a focus on Biophilic Design - how we enhance the human connection with nature in our cities and buildings. As an alumnus of The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, Oliver has used his longstanding media career for the likes of the BBC and the Discovery Channel, along with the four books he has written, to discuss the environmental issues that we face and how design can be used to not just mitigate them, but also create regenerative spaces for both people and planet. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at